Yonkers News

YONKERS - A 24-year-old man who police said was firing a .22-caliber rifle at cans for target practice at the dead end of Fern Terrace was issued a city code violation.

YONKERS - A 31-year-old man turned a public-housing apartment into a PCP factory after the tenant was removed, police said yesterday.

Senators are expected to spend July Fourth at the state Capitol after the warring sides met privately yesterday with Gov.

YONKERS Police in Yonkers have one of the two armed suspects who forced their way into a first floor apartment of 25 Riverview Place, early June 30.

A 22-year-old Yonkers man was arrested after firing three shots at a 17-year-old Yonkers man and his uncle, police said.

The political impasse in the state Senate means City Hall will be late mailing out property tax bills for the fiscal year that begins today, but city officials say that's no reason to celebrate.

YONKERS - Firefighters put out a 3-alarm blaze at a 6-story apartment building on Bronx River Road this morning.

A man whose car was stolen spotted it driving by minutes later with three men inside.

CATSKILL, N.Y. - Two decades ago, Kevin Ryan saved a woman and her babies from a burning car.

On the day Prince Debrah begins his freshman year at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., he'll fulfill not only his own college dream, but also his father's. "He was forced to go into the family business.

YONKERS - Four Yonkers teenagers were arrested and accused of beating a 24-year-old city man and robbing him of a gold chain, police said today.

YONKERS - Three people were shot in separate incidents late Friday and early yesterday in the city.

See a collection of photographs from the Saunders Trades and Technical High School graduation at http://lohud.com/gradphotoswestchester. The school is located in Yonkers.

YONKERS - A 26-year-old man was arrested in the city Sunday on a handgun charge, police said.

YONKERS - A gunman fleeing two police officers was captured thanks to a well-located unoccupied police cruiser, police said.

Police say they uncovered a "heroin mill" when they arrested three people and recovered two ounces of uncut heroin and about 1,000 bags of the drug worth $30,000 in a southwest apartment.

YONKERS - A 19-year-old city man has been arrested in the robbery Monday of a 15-year-old Yonkers boy.

YONKERS - The nighttime sky over the city's waterfront will be a good deal quieter July Fourth.

ALBANY - New York's four-year graduation rates have increased to nearly 71 percent, up from 69.3 percent a year ago and higher than the national average of 69 percent, the state Education Department announced today.

YONKERS, NYa 'In a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by local Mayor Phil Amicone, a 150-room Hampton Inn and Suites held its grand opening here, making it the first new hotel in the area in decades.