Westchester County News

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Congresswoman Nita Lowey honored 10 Westchester County students for their admission to the nation's service academies, including the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

A Pomona woman has been ruled not competent to be sentenced after she killed one woman and injured another by running them down with her car in White Plains in 2008.

WPCNR PLAYLAND NEWS. From the Westchester County Board of Legislators . May 16, 2013: Several Democratic caucus members of the Westchester County Board of Legislators called today on County Executive Rob Astorino to hand over the keys for the North Bathhouse at Playland to Westchester Children's Museum officials so work can begin immediately and ... (more)

Streetsblog continues our series on City Council candidates with a look at the race for District 11 in the Bronx, which covers Kingsbridge, Riverdale, Woodlawn, and Norwood.

In Lake Success accident cleared on The L.I.E./I-495 EB west of x34/New Hyde Park Rd.

A town judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss a drugged-driving case against Kerry Kennedy, ex-wife of Gov.

David Buchwald November, 2011 on the White Plains Week program. WPCNR PERSONALITIES.

State lawmakers from Westchester County and Long Island today will continue to push for tougher boating laws after a number of deaths in recent years.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have accused three Chinese nationals, including a renowned researcher of magnetic-resonance-imaging technology, of secretly sharing U.S.-funded research with competitors, the latest effort by the government to stem what it describes as illegal exporting of technology overseas.

New York Public Radio has applied to the FCC to acquire 90.3 FM in Ossining, N.Y., from community licensee Hudson Valley Community Radio for $400,000. The broadcaster plans to use the new signal as a repeater for WQXR , its classical music station airing on 105.9 FM in New York City.

RYE, N.Y. The family of a Rye Playland worker killed on a ride in 2007 is expected to receive a combined $700,000 from Westchester County and the amusement park, according to a News12 report on Monday.

A chance of rain is in the forecast for every day this week in Westchester County, the National Weather Service says.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. As Westchester County motorists get ready for Memorial Day holiday travel plans, local police are getting ready for you.

Nominations are being accepted for the 2013 Milly Kibrick Youth Recognition Awards, which will be given out in October at a dinner at New Rochelle's Davenport Club.

A funeral mass is planned for next week for a Hofstra University student who was shot and killed during a break-in at her apartment on the school's campus in Uniondale.

IF MARIN has an East Coast clone it may be Westchester County. Despite its 1 million population, some describe this suburb as New York's Marin.

BEDFORD, N.Y. After months of searching for a resolution to a puzzling situation, the Bedford Central School District found a solution for a blind resident in Mount Kisco in last week's top news .

A New Rochelle man pleaded guilty in county court Friday to eight armed robberies throughout lower Westchester County in early 2012, District Attorney Janet DiFiore announced.

The Bronx River Parkway will again be closed to northbound traffic from the Sprain Brook Parkway in Yonkers to the Westchester County Center in White Plains from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday.