Five Firsts: Chip Taylor

Although I was born and raised in Yonkers, New York and there was no country music to be heard on the radio in my town, I heard country music at an early age, and it became my entire life. I got into the music business as a country songwriter, writing songs for the Brown Family, Eddy Arnold, Willie Nelson, Bobby Bare, Waylon Jennings and later Johnny Cash.

Man Nabbed After Scamming Yonkers Grandmother Of $10K, Police Say

An elderly Westchester grandmother was robbed of $10,000 by telephone scammers who told her that her grandson had been arrested in the Dominican Republic, Yonkers police said. The 75-year-old woman received the first call from the scammers telling her the grandson was in jail and she needed to go to the Western Union and wire $980 to bail him out, said Sgt.

Man Nabbed Who Scams Yonkers Grandmother Of $10K, Police Say

An elderly Westchester grandmother was robbed of $10,000 by telephone scammers who told her that her grandson had been arrested in the Dominican Republic, Yonkers police said. The 75-year-old woman received the first call from the scammers telling her the grandson was in jail and she needed to go to the Western Union and wire $980 to bail him out, said Sgt.

Pre-inaugural welcome includes Jon Voight, Toby Keith, Lee Greenwood

Want to hear Grammy Award-winner Jennifer Holliday belt out a gospel song with the Lincoln Memorial as a backdrop? How about Lee Greenwood, whose "God Bless the USA" stirs the soul as a national anthem in and of itself? And what about Yonkers, New York-born "Midnight Cowboy" Jon Voight, who writes his own scripts on politics and, yes, Hollywood? The Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Friday that two special events are scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 20 - Voices of the People and Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration. "President-elect [Donald] Trump has made it clear that this inaugural is of, by, and for the American people.