Westchester County News

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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