Yonkers News

The Bronx River Parkway will again be closed to northbound traffic from the Sprain Brook Parkway in Yonkers to the Westchester County Center in White Plains from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday.

YONKERS, N.Y. A Yonkers mom has teamed up with a New York City author to pen a cookbook with a simple motto: everything is better with bacon.

His troubles began in 1997, when at age 12 he plead guilty to setting fire to the apartment of his grandmother, Betty Shabazz, that resulted in her death in New York.

Annie Lusk works at the new Green Eileen store in Seattle's Columbia City. Green Eileen recycles Eileen Fisher designs and donates the proceeds to organizations that empower girls and women.

YONKERS, N.Y. Empire City Casino's Sunday evening summer party is headed back to Yonkers with some big-time performers in tow.

State lawmakers have until Wednesday to file new financial disclosure forms that will detail for the first time their amount of outside incomes.

In July 29, 1999 file photo, Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of political activist Malcolm X, leaves Family Court in Yonkers, N.Y., after a detention hearing.

YONKERS, N.Y. Yonkers officials are hoping to do away with what they say is an unfair and burdensome toll along Interstate 87.

Yonkers, NY - infoZine - There are many ways to save on makeup and skin-care items, but 56 percent of women say they don't take advantage of coupons and discounts codes, according to a new national poll from ShopSmart.

While a tattoo is forever, Big Joe & Sons Tattooing & Piercing's spot on Mamaroneck Avenue in White Plains isn't. The shop is leaving its 148 B Mamaroneck Ave.

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A four-count federal indictment was unsealed in Brooklyn charging eight defendants with participating in two worldwide cyberattacks that inflicted $45 million in losses on the global financial system in a matter of hours.* These defendants allegedly formed the New York-based cell of an international cybercrime organization that used sophisticated ... (more)

Malcolm Shabazz, the 14-year-old grandson of Malcolm X, is led in handcuffs from Family Court in Yonkers.

Two Hastings-on-Hudson children, under the age of 11-years-old, were sexually assaulted between May 11 and May 12 while at a sleepover at one of the victim's home, police said.

Thanks to Gladwyn Lopez from Rubenstein Communications for sharing the following: In sharing the unique and interactive experiences offered at the just launched LEGOLANDA® Discovery Center Westchester with adult LEGOA® fans, the indoor attraction today announced the launch of its first monthly Adult Fans of LEGO Night, taking place on Thursday, May ... (more)

Brandon Needer is 18 years old and just graduated from high school last year, but he has decided to make a run for a seat on the Yonkers City Council.

The Westchester County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was searching this weekend for someone who has been poisoning cats in Yonkers.

Hermann Fuechsel's "View of the Narrows from Tompkinsville, Staten Island, 1860" is featured in "The Panoramic River." Where: Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Ave., Yonkers When: Wednesday-Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.; through May 19.

Editor's Note: The following was submitted by the Mental Health Association of Westchester.

Nearly every day from spring to fall, Leroy Bailey and six of his colleagues report to a job that is not for the fainthearted.