Yonkers News

A 29-year-old Yonkers man is facing charges that he broke into a parked car in southwest Yonkers yesterday and stole a radio.

YONKERS - Two police officers thwarted an assault over the weekend when they arrested a man who had a loaded handgun trained on another man, police said yesterday.

YONKERS - Mayor Phil Amicone is expected today to propose an overhaul of the city's affordable-housing law that he says will ease burdensome requirements on developers.

Five school districts in Westchester could receive 9 percent cuts to their 2008-09 state aid under Gov.

Westchester's largest town has spoken. Yonkers is deep in red ink. Mayor Phil Amicone yesterday said at a City Hall news conference that a combination of revenue shortfalls and spending overruns has created a ...

WHITE PLAINS - A Palestinian immigrant says she and her businesses were singled out for abuse and harassment by Yonkers police after the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks because of her Arab ethnicity and Muslim ...

State lawmakers and the Paterson administration are considering legislation that would allow the state's video-lottery gaming facilities to expand hours and add electronic table games, such as roulette and ...

WHITE PLAINS - A 27-year-old Yonkers man will spend the next 5 1/2 years in prison for having sex with a 10-year-old girl in his grandmother's apartment earlier this year, a judge ruled this morning.

A deli owner in suburban New York says her business was targeted for harassment by police because she is a Muslim and an Arab.

Haifi Tamimi filed a federal civil rights lawsuit accusing the city of Yonkers and 14 of its police officers of targeting her downtown deli by selectively enforcing a local ordinance requiring businesses to close between midnight and 6 a.m. She claims the officers told her Muslims did not contribute to the city.

She also claims much of the harassment was directed at her following the Sept. 11 attacks.

A reputed low-level mob associate convicted of killing an off-duty New York police officer during a botched burglary has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. His co-defendant, former 'Sopranos' actor Lillo Brancato, goes on trial next week.

Steven Armento was convicted of murder last month in the shooting of Officer Daniel Enchautegui (En-chow-TAY'-gee) on Dec. 10, 2005.

Authorities say Armento and Brancato broke into a Bronx basement apartment to steal prescription drugs after a night of drinking at a Yonkers strip club. Enchautegui, who lived next door, came out to investigate.

YONKERS Two men robbed a delivery man while in the rear parking lot of 473 Tuckahoe Road in the City of Yonkers late in the morning of November 11.

A New York man who stabbed his wife 30 times while their young son was at home with them has pleaded guilty to murder.

A 71-year-old Yonkers man pleaded guilty this morning to murdering his wife, who was stabbed 30 times and bludgeoned with a mallet.

YONKERS - When they heard the toning of the bell, people stepped outside to find two black coffins being carried outside their doors, led by a procession of about 100 Ukrainians and Ukrainian-Americans. ...

A pedestrian tentatively identified as a New Rochelle resident was struck and killed in the center lane of the Sprain Brook Parkway north of Jackson Avenue yesterday evening, state police said.

Workers attach the last pieces of Waterford crystal to the 2008 New Year's Eve ball in Yonkers, N.Y. on Monday, Nov.

YONKERS - School officials have opened their first college information center at Roosevelt High School as part of the district's efforts to send more students to college.

YONKERS - Four city teenagers are accused of beating two city men and robbing them of $512, police said.

YONKERS - Deborah Caracciola, 55, of Yonkers was bogged down Tuesday with three bags of stolen goods from CVS worth $1,300, police said, so she did not have much of a chance to escape from officers as she ...

A former butcher was sentenced to life in prison for killing two New York drug dealers and carving up their bodies.