Mamaroneck News

A Catholic priest has admitted in court that he groped a woman during a marriage counseling session.

WHITE PLAINS - An Ecuadorean priest who had been visiting a Mamaroneck church pleaded guilty today to a charge that he groped a parishoner who sought marriage counseling from him in 2004.

ALBANY - Gov. David Paterson called legislators back to the Capitol on Monday, but like last week the sides remained at odds over how to close the state's $3.2 billion mid-year budget gap.

A 50-year-old Mamaroneck man was arrested in White Plains yesterday, accused of punching another man after the pair were involved in minor car accident.

Towns in the northern Westchester watershed have lost their appeal challenging the use of New York City water-quality funds for a sewer project at the watershed's edge.

Unsettled by last week's shooting at Fort Hood that left 13 soldiers dead and dozens injured, veterans and their supporters in Westchester and Putnam counties marked a somber Veterans Day on Wednesday with reflection, song, and good deeds.

Traffic is backed up on southbound Interstate 95 today. Two lanes are closed for pavement repairs.

Vincent Graziano has been running Coxe and Graziano Funeral Home in Mamaroneck for 31 years. This fall he published the book  'Die Laughing,' a comedic tale about a guy in Little Italy in the 1970s who works for the family funeral home business and moonlights as a standup comedian.

MAMARONECK -  Jessica Cardenas and her fellow members of the fashion club at the high school are making a difference one thread at a time.

A New York City bus driver who hit and killed a pedestrian on his first day back from a texting-while-driving suspension has been issued a traffic ticket.

A New Rochelle businessman and a friend pleaded not guilty to charges they tried to have a Connecticut man killed to cash in on a $1 million life insurance policy.

MAMARONECK - Seth Kahn was a 22-year-old studying to be a toy designer when a New York City bus mowed him down on the day its driver returned from a texting-while-driving suspension.

Expect heavy delays as work on southbound Interstate 95 below Mamaroneck forces workers to close lanes and entry ramps today and Friday, the state Thruway Authority announced.

MAMARONECK - As a child of a Chinese immigrant who served the United States in wartime, school board president Linnet Tse said her family 'instilled in me a deep appreciation' of the sacrifices American soldiers make in armed combat.

The Niskayuna feld hockey team will make its second state-tournA ament appearance today when it takes on Mamaroneck in a Class A regional semifinal game on the turf at Shenendehowa High Schoola s Steuerwald Stadium.

Theatergoers aren't allowed to take photographs of performances at Mamaroneck's Emelin Theatre, but director Vincent Dowling is certain they'll want to bring their cameras along this week anyway.

Two sanitation workers were injured this morning after falling off a garbage truck.

Gov. David Paterson is calling back the Legislature on Tuesday to address the state budget gap, and he also put legislation on same-sex marriage, reforms of public authorities and a government spending cap on the agenda.

MAMARONECK - Jack Werner, a Jewish refugee in World War II, made it all the way from Austria to California.

An unlicensed contractor was charged with taking $75,000 from three homeowners as deposits for kitchen renovations and then never returning to do the work, Westchester County police spokesman Kieran O'Leary said Friday.