Mount Vernon News

MOUNT VERNON - A church used to house injured and sick soldiers during the Revolutionary War was the site of a solemn celebration yesterday.

MOUNT VERNON - With the help of public officials, volunteer gardeners, businesses, seniors and children, local shelters will soon receive fresh fruits and vegetables from the city's first community garden.

Plain Jane vanilla soft-serve is great, and so is a pint of Ben & Jerry's eaten standing in front of the freezer.

A Mount Vernon man remains in the hospital after he was ejected from his motorcycle in an accident yesterday afternoon.

A broad measure of economic activity shows that sales in Westchester and Putnam counties are tumbling at their fastest pace in at least 19 years.

The Southern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services will close at least one site where it educates the region's most severely disabled children, a move that has prompted legal wrangling with the owner of the property.

See a collection of photographs from the Nelson Mandela High School graduation at http://lohud.com/gradphotoswestchester. The school is located in Mount Vernon.

MOUNT VERNON - A second suspect has been arrested in connection with a robbery Friday night, police said yesterday.

In a raucous scene, Senate Democrats and Republicans held dueling sessions on the Senate floor Tuesday, with senators talking over one another and seeking to prevent the other side from conducting business.

Jobs in the Lower Hudson Valley contracted in May for the seventh consecutive month, though the regional labor market fared less poorly than neighboring New York City and the state, new data showed.

A 42-year-old Mount Vernon businessman was found guilty today of sexually abusing a 28-year-old acquaintance he was supposed to be driving to work.

Aided by emergency service units and Westchester County police aviation, two Mount Vernon police detectives nabbed a suspect in a violent robbery just two and a half hours after it happened last night.

Four thrift-chartered banks in the Lower Hudson Valley, including Provident Bank in Montebello, would have to obtain new charters under President Obama's proposed reorganization of the nation's banking system.

WHITE PLAINS - A 41-year-old Bronx man was acquitted of murder but found guilty of manslaughter today in the fatal shooting of a Mount Vernon man last year.

Three Lower Hudson Valley residents who supplemented their income by claiming unemployment benefits while holding jobs with the state are now facing felony charges, the state Attorney General's Office said yesterday.

A 24-year-old Mount Vernon man was arrested early this morning and charged with breaking into a 2007 sport utility vehicle in Yonkers, police said.

MOUNT VERNON - City officials are reviving an old tradition at Memorial Field by holding a city fair that features rides, games and food.

MOUNT VERNON - A 27-year-old federal convict who is reputedly a member of the Crips street gang has been charged in the slaying of a 16-year-old Mount Vernon boy last month.

An 18-year-old Mount Vernon man and two Yonkers teenagers have been arrested after they robbed three men at gunpoint in War Memorial Field, Yonkers police said.

Mayor Clinton Young announced a public outreach campaign yesterday that he hopes will lead to a full and accurate count of city residents in the 2010 census.