Westchester County News

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.

The Tappan Zee Bridge Mass Transit Task Force set the stage Friday for matching its wish list of new transit services with potential sources of funding.

Rye- Several Democrats on the Westchester County Board of Legislators called on County Executive Rob Astorino to hand over the keys for the North Bathhouse at Playland to the Westchester Children's Museum, so work can begin, and the attraction will open by 2014.

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Julie Cherico is a 14-year resident of North Salem, with two children in North Salem schools.

Concluding that a judge's tendency to "interrupt, patronize, and admonish" an attorney deprived the lawyer's client of a fair medical malpractice trial, a Brooklyn appellate court has ordered a retrial before another judge.

Assemblywomen Amy Paulin and Barbara Lifton said they would vote in favor of expelling Vito Lopez from office, but said they see no reason to also oust Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan. So far, at least from Assembly members, the outrage about Lopez's alleged sexual harassment of his young female aides has been focused on him - not Silver, who ... (more)

Democratic members of the Westchester Board of Legislators gathered at Rye Playland Thursday and called on County Executive Rob Astorino to allow work to begin on the Westchester Children's Museum .

Gun owners in New York who don't want their license information available to the public are facing a deadline to file an exemption form with local licensing authorities.

Could you be Westchester County's next millionaire? The jackpot for Wednesday night's Powerball drawing has reached $360 million.