Hawthorne News

The family of two crash victims is demanding an apology from wrong-way driver Diane Schuler's family for its continued portrayal of her as a 'perfect mom,' saying police reports demonstrate she was an erratic driver who was no stranger to marijuana and alcohol.

YONKERS: Detectives are awaiting autopsy results from the Westchester County Medical Examiner's Office to determine how a 50-year-old man whose body was found in the southwest part of the city died.

BRIARCLIFF MANOR - The Clear View School, which runs a day treatment program for 120 emotionally troubled students, is gearing up for its 24th annual dinner auction Saturday.

HAWTHORNE Westchester County Executive-elect Rob Astorino Wednesday said liberal spending in Albany backfired as Republicans swept a number of races on Tuesday.

Main Roman Catholic missionary original name Mary Josephine Rogers born Oct. 27, 1882, Boston died Oct.

WHITE PLAINS - Thomas Chadeayne became a criminal when he made an illegal U-turn during rush hour and caused the death of an 11-year-old boy who was on his way home from a Yankees game, a Westchester prosecutor argued today.

John Vlissides is a member of the research staff at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York.

A Yonkers man who tried to escape with a cart full of hardware over the weekend slashed the arm of a Home Depot worker who got in his way, police said.

CROTON-ON-HUDSON - Sue Downes was on a routine mission in Afghanistan when a hidden bomb exploded nearby, killing two fellow American soldiers in her Humvee and causing the loss of both her legs.

HAWTHORNE - Gov. David Paterson and Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano announced new measures today aimed at stopping trucks from ramming into the low bridges on county parkways - something that has happened 45 times so far this year.

Gov. David A. Paterson and County Executive Andy Spano are scheduled to announce a plan to try to keep trucks off the parkways, where they seem to be colliding with overpasses at an alarming rate recently.

AWARD WINNERS: Besides the seventh John Atanasoff award, which went to IMB's Martin Vechev, President Georgi Purvanov, middle, awarded researchers Galina Ivanova and Rossen Kirilov, and high-school students Roumen Hristov, Stefan Avramov and Ivan Georgiev with honorary diplomas for their achievements in the field of computer and information ...

Gusty winds were blamed for power outages across the region Wednesday, with 4,463 homes or businesses affected in Westchester, 5,900 customers without power in northern Westchester and Putnam counties, and nearly 2,000 customers in Rockland County.

July 26: New York State troopers investigate the scene of a fatal accident on the Taconic Parkway in Hawthorne, N.Y. The family of a woman who killed herself and seven other people by driving a minivan the wrong way on a parkway and crashing into an SUV was worried about her getting behind the wheel, according to 911 tapes obtained by MyFOXNY.

REGION: A special financial hotline will be open from 4 to 8 p.m. today to answer questions on a range of financial topics and direct callers to resources that may be helpful.

The Board of Education of the Katonah-Lewisboro Union Free School District is holding public forums to tell about and get feedback on the $3.15 million referendum set for a board vote Oct.

HAWTHORNE, N.Y. The drama over Indian drug maker Sun Pharmaceutical Industries' efforts to acquire Israel's Taro Pharmaceutical Industries continued Tuesday as Taro filed suit against Sun in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that Sun failed to disclose information to Taro shareholders.

NEW CASTLE - The state is suing a Chappaqua-based septic hauler and one of its drivers over accusations that they intentionally emptied a tank full of septic waste into a stream that makes its way into the New Croton Reservoir.

If any community needed a big laugh or two from Jay Leno after the Buffalo Bills lost another Monday Night Football heartbreaker, it was Western New York.

Funeral arrangements have been set for the two 44-year-old Greenburgh men who were killed over the weekend in unrelated homicides.