New Rochelle News

NEW ROCHELLE - The financially troubled Thomas Paine Museum on North Avenue has handed off most of its contents to the New York Historical Society in Manhattan, The Journal News has learned.

NEW ROCHELLE - The city has completed a $100,000 project to restore three historic city monuments damaged by the passage of time.

From staff reports Volleyball: Diana Arcidiacono had two aces and six digs as Eastchester defeated White Plains 2-0 in a Pelham Summer League game.

The Journal News article says that the interim executive director of the board of the Thomas Paine National Historical Association is disputing claims by former board member Ken Burchell that the Attorney General's office stepped in ordered the museum's collection transferred to the New York State ...

YONKERS - Thirty-five families were displaced and 17 firefighters were slightly injured early yesterday after an electrical malfunction in a therapeutic chair ignited a smoky fire on the second floor of a six-story Bronx River Road cooperative apartment.

Police are investigating $4,000 worth of construction equipment and supplies stolen from a New Rochelle home.

The city's longtime corporation counsel, Bernis Shapiro, has abruptly retired, and officials yesterday gave little explanation of what happened.

NEW ROCHELLE - A Bronx man was arrested after punching a New Roc City security guard in the eye on Friday night.

A broad measure of economic activity shows that sales in Westchester and Putnam counties are tumbling at their fastest pace in at least 19 years.

NEW ROCHELLE - Mary Norton has sailed her family's 29-foot schooner to City Island, Martha's Vineyard and countless points between in the past 33 years.

Boaters can make sure they have everything they need for a safe summer, as two agencies are teaming up to give free vessel inspections in the city's marinas this weekend.

NEW ROCHELLE - Two cars had windows smashed and tires stolen on Palmer Avenue between last night and this morning.

NEW ROCHELLE - A Bronx woman hit her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend over the head with a glass vase at his apartment last night, police said.

Train riders knew the fare increases were coming, but that didn't take the bite out of having to pay about 10 percent more to board Metro-North Railroad.

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NEW ROCHELLE - Ciro Chechile's janitorial supply store on Huguenot Street has seen business drop by 30 percent within the past year.

NEW ROCHELLE - More than 9 pounds of marijuana with a street value of about $10,000 was seized by Westchester County police during a traffic stop on the Hutchinson River Parkway on Monday night.

YONKERS - Housing advocates are criticizing the city's pending land deal with downtown developer Struever Fidelco Cappelli, in particular a provision that would allow the plan's affordable apartments to convert to market rate after 15 years.

It was simply a glimpse, a two- or three-second glance at a good dad doing a good thing with his good boy.

Aided by emergency service units and Westchester County police aviation, two Mount Vernon police detectives nabbed a suspect in a violent robbery just two and a half hours after it happened last night.