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50 min ago | Journal News

Ringleader pleads guilty in break-ins

The leader of a home-invasion ring that brutalized a Harrision family pleaded guilty Friday on the promise he'll get 10 years in state prison, authorities said.

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Related Topix: New Rochelle, NY, State Prisons, Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Buchanan, NY

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Jurist

New York high court rules same-sex spouses of state employees entitled to benefits

The first policy was a 2006 decision by the Westchester County executive to extend benefits to same-sex spouses of county employees.

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Related Topix: New York Government, New York

Journal News

Trial begins for man accused of sex attack on Peekskill girl, 7

An Ecuadorean immigrant charged with sexually assaulting a 7-year-old Peekskill girl told the girl's father that she was a 'seductress' who had fallen in love with him, a Westchester County prosecutor said Thursday.

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Related Topix: Peekskill, NY, White Plains, NY, State Prisons, Prison

Journal News

Rethinking Westchester County government group reconvenes tonight

GREENBURGH - A group that wants to reconsider, and possibly eliminate, Westchester County government is meeting tonight.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

Journal News

Man gets 15-18 years in prison for raping two teen girls in 2007

WHITE PLAINS - A Bronx man will serve 15 to 18 years in state prison for raping two teenage girls in his car in separate incidents in Mount Vernon and Yonkers two years ago.

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Related Topix: White Plains, NY, State Prisons, Prison, Mount Vernon, NY, Yonkers, NY

Sunherald.com

NY court: Married gay couples entitled to benefits

New York's top court on Thursday rejected a Christian legal group's challenge to some government benefits provided to gay couples legally married elsewhere and now living in New York.

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Journal News

Paramedic disputes man on dad's death

PEEKSKILL - A man who died after his son left him in a sweltering car while he was at work last year may have been dead longer than the two hours that his son told police he'd left him.

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Related Topix: Peekskill, NY, Weather, Beacon, NY

Democrat & Chronicle

Drunken-driving laws to get tougher

ALBANY - The state Legislature agreed Tuesday to enact a law that would toughen drunken-driving laws in New York, making it a felony for driving while impaired with a child passenger.

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Related Topix: Albany Metro, Hawthorne, NY

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Journal News

Poll: Majority of New Yorkers worried state will run out of money

ALBANY - Sixty-nine percent of New Yorkers are worried the state will run out of money next month if an agreement is not reached between lawmakers and Gov.

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Related Topix: Albany Metro, Marist College

Journal News

Police find bodies of 2 women in Mt. Vernon

MOUNT VERNON - The bodies of two women were found Monday within a mile of each other in two unrelated incidents on the west side of the city that police are labeling suspicious deaths, city police detectives said.

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Related Topix: Mount Vernon, NY

White Plains CitizeNetReporter

Spano Fairwell Budget: 4.8% Tax Increase. Blames Sales Tax. Astorino Pans It.

The proposed 2010 Westchester County budget of $1.819 billion, presented by outgoing County Executive Andrew Spano this morning presents a 4.88 percent increase in the county tax levy to offset a projected decrease of $50.9 million in revenues and an increase in expenses of about $70.2 million, including $46.2 million in mandated expenses and other ...

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Related Topix: Tax, White Plains, NY, Scarsdale, NY

Tue Nov 17, 2009

TownHall.com

U.S. moves Madoff deputy DiPascali...

Frank DiPascali, swindler Bernard Madoff's right-hand man who admitted helping his boss run a decades-long multibillion dollar fraud, was moved from a New York jail to another north of the city five days ago, officials said on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Federal Prisons, Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York, Prison, Valhalla, NY

MyFoxNY

Judge Allows Taconic Crash Lawsuits

A judge has cleared the way for lawsuits to be filed in a wrong-way crash on a New York parkway that killed eight people.

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WABC 7

Westchester drug raid nets dozens

Dozens of people were arrested for crack and powder cocaine dealing in drug raids in Westchester County Tuesday morning.

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Related Topix: Drugs, White Plains, NY

The Patent Trader

14 arrested on drunken-driving charges over the weekend

Troopers charged 14 motorists with driving while intoxicated during weekend traffic stops in Westchester and Putnam counties, state police said Monday.

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Related Topix: Putnam County, NY, Ardsley, NY, Bedford, NY

Mon Nov 16, 2009

1010Wins

Truck Driver Killed in Accident in Westchester County

New York State police say a truck driver was killed in a fiery accident while attempting to avoid an oncoming car on Route 9 in northern Westchester County.

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Sun Nov 15, 2009

The Patent Trader

Interactive map: District-by-district county exec. election results

Click to see a map of the Westchester county executive race results , showing how high turnout in Republican districts helped propel Astorino to victory.

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Journal News

Trial opens for retired NYC detective accused of drugging, raping woman in Greenburgh

WHITE PLAINS - A Texas woman who claims a retired New York City police detective drugged and raped her at a Greenburgh motel last year is gay and was in the area to meet her girlfriend's mother, a Westchester County prosecutor said today.

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Related Topix: White Plains, NY, State Prisons, Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Associated Content

Review: Lazy Boy Saloon, Best Bar for Beer in White Plains, Westchester County New York

When you walk into Lazy Boy Saloon in White Plains, the first thing that you notice is the beer menu.

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Related Topix: White Plains, NY, Beer, Life, Food, Dining, Travel, Thailand, Laos Travel, Laos Travel, Pizza

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Internet Archive

Westchester County, New York : biographical

Westchester County, New York : biographical This book has an editable web page on Open Library .

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