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Police seized three pounds of marijuana and $14,000 and arrested two in a raid of a home-based marijuana business, police said today.

MOUNT PLEASANT - Mount Pleasant Today lives by the words of Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world." The grass-roots community organization, which has grown to more than 300 members, is marking its first anniversary of working to improve quality-of-life issues in the town's three ...

Here's a look at a few restaurants that have opened recently in the area. To search more restaurants by name, cuisine, town or amenity, visit LoHud.com/food. If your favorite restaurant is not in our online listings, please e-mail food editor Liz Johnson at ewjohnson@lohud.com and she will see that it is added.

It has been one year since our grass root organization, Mount Pleasant Today, first met with the dream of pulling together a group of forward thinking and active Mount Pleasant residents in the hopes that they would work together to promote change, gather ideas to make our great town even better, and then see those ideas through to fruition with ...

Renee M. Brown of South Salem, Chief Executive Officer of C.W. Brown Inc. in Thornwood, has been chosen to receive the 2009 Lillian Vernon Award.

THORNWOOD: The Mount Pleasant Elementary PTA is holding a mega tag sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

THORNWOOD - Every year since 2002, Hillside Food Outreach, a nonprofit food pantry that delivers food to the homebound, has raised at least a third of its $450,000 operating budget through a fundraising event.

A winded Mitch Perl was forced to confront a stark reality two years ago when he nearly lost a backyard footrace to his 8-year-old daughter.

Thornwood, N.Y., Sep 23, 2009 .- In reaction to the news that a woman was implanted with an embryo from another couple, Father Thomas Berg, Executive Director of the Westchester Institute for Ethics and the Human Person, spoke to CNA about the tragedies that can happen in 'the unregulated world of IVF.' Sean and Carolyn Savage shared their story ...

As Muslims around the world marked the end of Ramadan on Sunday with the holiday Eid Al-Fitr, members of the Upper Westchester Muslim Society celebrated the day by talking about the congregation's future.

For a municipality that is just 28 square miles, the town of Mount Pleasant is home to a disproportionate number of historic attractions in the lower Hudson area.

WHITE PLAINS - Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore's office made 'misleading and false statements' about its role in a plea deal with a Thornwood man who admitted to violently beating his girlfriend, a Republican running for her office said yesterday.

Two Brooklyn men caught trying to rob a local Radio Shack were carrying a counterfeit $100 bill and several stolen cell phone cards, police said today.

Muslims from the Lower Hudson Valley are preparing to visit Islam's holiest site for a joyous religious pilgrimage called the umrah.

Mount Pleasant Today, a grass-roots organization that represents the community and serves as a platform for issues for the residents of Mount Pleasant, is proud to announce it recently achieved its goal of a summer cleanup and flower planting in the hamlets of Valhalla and Thornwood.

Mount Pleasant Today, a grass-roots organization that represents the community and serves as a platform for issues for the residents of Mount Pleasant, is proud to announce it recently achieved its goal of a summer cleanup and flower planting in the hamlets of Valhalla and Thornwood.

As the Vatican begins an unprecedented investigation into the Legionaries of Christ, a once-powerful religious order whose late founder has been discredited for living a "double life," it remains to be seen how the order's local operations will be affected.

Veteran news photographer Frank Becerra has been at scores of crash scenes over his 32-year career at The Journal News.

When it comes to technical skills, you either have them or you get them. This year s salary survey shows that there s demand for a broad range of skills, many of which have been hot for several years .

Westchester ushers in a new kind of storage environment with Thornwood Self Storage Center.