Westchester County News

A "ghost bike" will be placed at the spot where a 66-year-old cycling advocate from Greenburgh was struck and killed last week by a Westchester Bee-Line bus.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed $50,600 in fines against Metro Steel Fabricators Inc., a Brooklyn steel erection contractor, for alleged willful and serious violations of safety standards at a Tuckahoe, N.Y., jobsite.

WHITE PLAINS - The Bronx man accused of driving drunk and nearly severing a Pelham teen's leg 14 months ago pleaded guilty today to all charges after months of plea bargaining.

Rob Astorino, incoming Westchester County executive, was elected with a clear mandate to cut property taxes.

An unlicensed contractor was charged with taking $75,000 from three homeowners as deposits for kitchen renovations and then never returning to do the work, Westchester County police spokesman Kieran O'Leary said Friday.

A state appeals court has overturned a former Westchester County judge's decision to throw out sex-abuse charges against a New Rochelle club owner in a 2007 case.

Diane Schuler didn't believe in medicine and used marijuana as a way to relax from the stress of her job and kids, according to a state police report given Friday to the families of the victims of the fiery wrong-way Taconic State Parkway crash.

A 66-year-old town resident was killed Friday afternoon after his bicycle was struck by a Westchester County Bee-Line bus on Route 119 in the vicinity of Aqueduct Road, police said.

YONKERS - A Yonkers man and another from the Bronx are facing serious drug charges after police confiscated $40,000 worth of heroin from them, police said.

Nowhere in the United States has more doctors at its beck and call than White Plains, one of the wealthiest cities in the nation.

County Executive-elect Rob Astorino tapped a lawyer from one of Westchester County's most influential firms to lead his transition team.

Yankees manager Joe Girardi capped a victorious night by helping a car crash victim in suburban New York.

The Westchester County executive contest is the topic on columnist Phil Reisman's weekly radio show, on now.

Wednesday, November 04, 2009 at 12:36 p.m. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele declared Wednesday that the "Republican renaissance has begun" with gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey, but he stopped short of claiming that GOP successes on Tuesday were a referendum on President Barack Obama.

Eds: APNewsNow; Will be led. AP Video. AP Photo NYCR103, NYCR101, NYCR108, NYFF103, GFX852 AP Graphic MAYORAL RESULTS By SARA KUGLER Associated Press Writer NEW YORK New York City's billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg is trying to portray his narrow third term win as part of a national backlash against incumbents.

Voters on Tuesday rejected Democratic county leaders across New York in what appears to be widespread displeasure with the state's high taxes and an anti-incumbent movement, particularly in the suburbs.

NEW ROCHELLE - A 27-year-old man died Tuesday night after being shot in the neck by an off-duty Eastchester police officer, police said.

Unofficial results show voters roughed up incumbent county executives in Nassau and Westchester counties.

A county jury today convicted Owen McAllister, 43, of one count of felony burglary and misdemeanor counts of petty larceny and possessing stolen property for a March 26 break-in at a home in Ardsley.

The Great Recession has caused great upheaval in New York, wreaking havoc upon state spending plans and all manner of school district and local government budgets.