Peekskill News

There will be no Championship Week at the Westchester County Center in 2009. Westchester County Parks Commissioner Joe Stout said today that only the Section 1 boys and girls basketball finals will be held at ...

PEEKSKILL - Christopher Kennedy is sitting for a talk in the Peekskill High School auditorium, learning about the dangers of smoking.

City police said a Connecticut woman was drunk when she drove the wrong way on Route 9 overnight, nearly striking a responding police cruiser head on.

CORTLANDT - Firefighters from Mohegan Lake, Peekskill and Buchanan worked quickly today to douse a fire that apparently started from a plumber's soldering torch.

Yonkers and Peekskill women are due in town court tonight to answer a felony charge related to the theft of more than $1,500 worth of clothing and bedding from the Sears department store in the Jefferson Valley ...

In Putnam Valley, Peekskill Hollow Road is slated for a major road-widening project despite vigorous and persistent public objection.

A local man who commanded a National Guard battalion that saw some of its soldiers in recent years serve in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as their own backyards for flood and snowstorm relief, has a new ...

YORKTOWN - A drunken Peekskill man tried to elude a town officer who was trying to pull him over for speeding and driving on the wrong side of the road, police said today.

PEEKSKILL - Dozens of city employees showed up in force at a Common Council meeting this week troubled by reports of possible layoffs.

Westchester County police have charged a Cortlandt man with buying beer for a group of 15-year-olds who were later found drunk at the Blue Mountain Reservation, police said today.

A 56-year-old Peekskill man is due in town court tonight to answer a felony charge in relation to an attempt to fill a forged prescription at a Commerce Street pharmacy, Yorktown police said.

There will be no failure to communicate here, we'll make it clear. The Paramount Center in Peekskill is hosting a Paul Newman Retrospective all month and it begins with "Cool Hand Luke." Newman was a legend ...

An early morning fire wrecked part of the dining room and kitchen area of Portofino restaurant on Route 9A today.

Three legendary performers will take the stage next weekend at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill.

The Peekskill Red Devils have lost two of the their key players this year but ironically will be returning to a more atypical Peekskill team... Lou Panzanaro .

PEEKSKILL - City police and state parole officers went to a Brown Street residence seeking a man wanted for violating the terms of his parole.

PEEKSKILL - A 9-year-old boy discovered missing from his Hudson Avenue home early yesterday prompted a huge search in the dark by city, county and state police before he was found.

Troopers from the Cortlandt barracks released information todayon two recent arrests for driving while intoxicated.

U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, who in 2006 turned a longtime Republican stronghold Democratic by defeating 12-year incumbent Sue Kelly, R-Katonah, is solidifying his margin of victory in the 19th ...

Local school districts are bracing for deep cuts in state aid that could prompt reduced services and sharp increases in school taxes.