Westchester County News

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Putnam County until 7:30 p.m. Penny-size hail and 60 mph winds may be possible as a storm is moving northeast at 15 mph, the weather service said.

A Pelham Middle School teacher pleaded not guilty this morning to a charge of trying to lure a minor he met on the Internet for sex.

A new report says merging 10 Westchester County fire departments would save homeowners and businesses about $47 million a year in fire insurance premiums.

NEW PALTZ - A 48-year-old man who allegedly shot himself in the head on Interstate 87 Monday died Tuesday, according to the Westchester County Office of the Medical Examiner.

Need a hug? A 12-year-old boy is here for you. Mac Benson says he's given free hugs to pedestrians on two continents.

A Patterson man who was driving with a blood-alcohol content more than three times the legal limit is among 12 motorists charged with driving under the influence of alcohol during weekend traffic stops in Putnam and Westchester counties, state police said today.

Police say a Westchester County man has died after falling off a bridge while going to the aid of a motorist whose vehicle had overturned.

White Plains Linen, a Peekskill-based commercial linen supplier, is accused of illegally discharging chlorine into a storm drain that leads to the Hudson River.

HAVERSTRAW - Family and friends gathered yesterday at the home of a teenager who died after he was found floating in a quarry in Verplanck.

A broad measure of economic activity shows that sales in Westchester and Putnam counties are tumbling at their fastest pace in at least 19 years.

Circus clowns would still be allowed on Westchester County-owned property. So would the trapeze acts and daring stunts that prompt oohs and aahs from circus-goers. Elephants, tigers, monkeys and other nonhuman primates, however, would be banned under a proposal to forbid 'wild and exotic animals' that's being pitched by an animal rights group.

A 26-year-old Yonkers woman has died of H1N1 swine flu, making her the virus's second fatality in Westchester County, the Medical Examiner's Office said yesterday.

A Buchanan resident is charged with burglarizing a Cortlandt home where he had done landscaping work, the latest of several arrests for a man who remains a suspect in other unsolved burglaries.

Troopers charged two motorists with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated after traffic stops last night and this morning in Westchester and Putnam counties, state police said.

A 41-year-old Bronx man was acquitted of murder but found guilty of manslaughter yesterday in the fatal shooting of a Mount Vernon man last year.

With June being National Men's Health Month, Westchester County Board of Legislators Chairman William Ryan, D-White Plains, is hosting a health forum called "Getting the Right Care When it Counts." The forum will take place at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Ridgeway Elementary School, 225 Ridgeway in White Plains.

Two lanes of the Cross County Parkway are closed due to a motorcycle accident, Westchester County police said.

The real-world equivalent of the Bailey Savings and Loan in the classic movie "It's a Wonderful Life" would become extinct under the banking overhaul proposed this week by the Obama administration.

Aided by emergency service units and Westchester County police aviation, two Mount Vernon police detectives nabbed a suspect in a violent robbery just two and a half hours after it happened last night.

WHITE PLAINS - A federal judge today overturned a lower court decision and ruled that a Pelham teacher jailed in an Internet sex sting will not be released to a drug treatment center.