New Rochelle News

NEW ROCHELLE - The city broke a contract with police officers and detectives when it assigned lucrative special-duty assignments to the department's upper ranks, a judge has ruled.

An unlicensed contractor was charged with taking $75,000 from three homeowners as deposits for kitchen renovations and then never returning to do the work, Westchester County police spokesman Kieran O'Leary said Friday.

A state appeals court has overturned a former Westchester County judge's decision to throw out sex-abuse charges against a New Rochelle club owner in a 2007 case.

A southbound lane of Interstate 95 was blocked by a car fire at 7 a.m. today just as emergency workers cleared an earlier accident on the northbound Thruway in Mamaroneck.

NEW ROCHELLE - A 20-year-old Larchmont man who was partying with friends after the New York Yankees victory put his head through a window of a New Rochelle pizzeria, police said.

A 56-year-old New Rochelle man remained hospitalized this morning after having been struck by a car Sunday evening.

NEW ROCHELLE - A 27-year-old man died Tuesday night after being shot in the neck by an off-duty Eastchester police officer, police said.

Four firefighters are recovering from injuries sustained fighting a Third Avenue garage fire Friday evening that melted the screen door on a home.

Ten years ago, Uwayesu Justus was living among piles of garbage in Rwanda's capital city of Kigali.

On a day when cheerleaders and children alike were dressed in costume, none of it signaled Halloween to White Plains more than the other team on the field.

NEW ROCHELLE - Halloween and a harvest garden party came together Saturday at the Ward Acres Community Garden.

To members of the human species, John Pighini might not seem special. He lives in the same county where he grew up, owns a roofing business and likes to hike.

A 55-year-old New Rochelle man was arrested near Garth and Popham roads, accused of driving while intoxicated.

A ribbon cutting ceremony was held this past Tuesday atthe Pelham Community Rowing Association's new boathouse at Glen Island Park in New Rochelle.

A piece of Hollywood lived and thrived in New Rochelle a century ago. Celebrities, film crews and entertainment reporters flocked to the city to be part of the arts scene around the Thanhouser Company, a pioneering motion picture studio that made more than 1,000 silent films between 1909 and 1917.

A Mount Vernon man suspected of mugging four people, including a Monroe College student, in two incidents in New Rochelle was arrested by police in a cab heading home, authorities said Monday.

Stone & Youngberg, a leading financial services firm and the nation`s top underwriter of California municipal bonds, announced today that Mark McCabe, a director in the firm`s Municipal Sales department, was named Man of the Year by the Boys & Girls Club of New ...

A 27-year-old man is accused of leaving his 4-year-old son home alone in their apartment while he went to pick up his wife.

Put this in the did-you-know file: When it comes to getting to work by commuter train, Westchester County is No. 1

Census figures show that 14 percent of the county's work force gets to work by commuter train. That's higher than any other.

THE bandleader announced "a lovely ballad from the World War II era," and the song "Waiting for the Train to Come In" emerged from the lips of a singer in a slinky black dress.