The Latest: Cuomo, Nixon make final pitches ahead of primary
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and activist and actress Cynthia Nixon are making their final pitches as their closely watched and sometimes nasty Democratic primary contest comes to a close.
Category Archives: Westchester County, NY
Dems hit GOP state Senate candidate for missing meetings
The following is an expanded version of the fourth item from my "Albany Insider" column that was cut for space from Monday's print editions: State Senate Democrats are accusing the newly minted Republican choice in an upcoming key Westchester County state Senate race as a "no-show" politician. Senate Dems say Julie Killian missed over half the meetings and skipped over 80% of the votes taken while she was an appointed member of the Westchester County Charter Commission.
Secret Service building fire at Clintons’ home extinguished
A 25-year-old Los Angeles has waived extradition proceedings in California and will face a Kansas charge that he made a hoax emergency call that led to the fatal police shooting of a Wichita resident. Voters in two-thirds of the states will be electing governors to new four-year terms this year and could indirectly be shaping the future of Congress for a decade to come.
Probe: Fatal California cop shooting of Navy vet justified
A 25-year-old Los Angeles has waived extradition proceedings in California and will face a Kansas charge that he made a hoax emergency call that led to the fatal police shooting of a Wichita resident. A 25-year-old Los Angeles has waived extradition proceedings in California and will face a Kansas charge that he made a hoax emergency call that led to the fatal police shooting of a Wichita resident.
Day Laborer Charged In Murder Of North Salem Socialite Returns To Court
The former day laborer charged in the bludgeoning death of an 83-year-old socialite on a sprawling 300-acre estate that shocked the bucolic town of North Salem and the area returned to the Westchester County Courthouse in White Plains on Thursday for a pre-trial conference. After pleading not guilty of murder in the second degree at his arraignment last month, 32-year-old Esdras Anibal Marroquin Gomez, known as "Victor," was remanded to the Westchester County Jail without bail.
A jet plane takes off from Westchester County Airport, White Plains,…
A jet plane takes off from Westchester County Airport, White Plains, N.Y., Thursday, June 23, 2016. Recent data from the Federal Aviation Administration shows that over the past four years, the American kestrel, a small falcon, has been struck and killed 21 times by airplanes at Westchester County Airport.
At Trump Tower, presidential kitsch and caboodle
In his cowboy hat and boots and strategically slung guitar, the Naked Cowboy has been a fixture in Times Square for decades, posing under the neon with visitors for donations. But these days, in his spangled underwear and little else, he can be found farther north: at the Midtown Manhattan home of another outsize New York character, Donald Trump.
WYWE: Muslim Ethan Allen CEO, Jewish leaders fight bigotry
Farooq Kathwari, CEO of Ethan Allen, discusses his company's business at Ethan Allen's Danbury headquarters, Friday, sept. 18, 2015.
Clintons buys house next door to Westchester property
Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill are expanding their foothold in Westchester County, picking up the house next door to their place in Chappaqua. The new "ranch style" house on Old House Lane was originally priced at $1.18 million, but was sold at a slightly reduced $1.16 million - or $319 per square foot - in August, the New York Post reported.
The Latest: Trump trash talks Clinton ahead of debate
Then he answered his own question: "They say she's practicing for the debate. Some people think she's sleeping."
Federal Judge’s Ruling Could Affect Lewisboro’s Housing Policies
A federal judge on Friday ordered Westchester County government to hire a consultant to comply with a 10-year-old federal housing discrimination lawsuit, saying the county "just walked away from the process." But a spokesman for Westchester County Rob Astorino, who argues the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is overreaching while suburban towns and villages have met new housing goals outlined in a 2009 settlement agreement -- said the county will appeal Friday's ruling.