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The FBI announced Tuesday that it's adding its muscle and up to $5,000 rewards to help Mount Vernon officials solve five open homicide cases. To do so, the FBI Westchester County Safe Streets Gang Task Force is asking for the public's help in solving the homicides that run from 2011 to 2016, FBI officials said.
Investigators from the FBI Westchester County Safe Streets Gang Task Force are offering up to $5,000 each to find the killers of five men - Jovelle Stewart, Mario Frater, Dean Daniels, Wilbert Francis and Rubin Davis - who were all killed on the streets of Mount Vernon.
A 53-year-old man from Mount Vernon is facing life in prison after being indicted for his potential involvement in the beating death of his roommate with canes. On Tuesday, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino announced that Clifford Ali has been arraigned on an indictment that includes a second-degree murder charge and three counts of criminal possession of a weapon, misdemeanors.
A New Rochelle man took police in Scarsdale on a wild chase last week through several backyards after being busted with a car that had been reported stolen in Mount Vernon. At approximately 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28, police were dispatched to the corner of Post and Dickel Road, following reports of an abandoned car.
FBI OFFERS $5,000 REWARD FOR INFORMATION ON PERPETRATORS RESPONSIBLE FOR STRING OF MOUNT VERNON HOMICIDES BACK TO 2011. KNOW WHO SHOT THESE MEN? CALL 914-925-3888 IN CONDFIDENCE The FBI Westchester County Safe Streets Gang Task Force is asking for the public's help in solving several homicide investigations in Mount Vernon, New York.
Cameron + Company is releasing Dr. Nadim Shaath's definitive new book, Healing Civilizations: The Search for Therapeutic Essential Oils & Nutrients, on Tuesday, March 14. More than a reference manual, this natural healing guide also details the author's travels across the globe and features the stunning photography of photojournalist Thomas Hartwell. Healing Civilizations is the culmination of Dr. Shaath's personal journey around the world over the past twenty-five years, seeking out and rediscovering essential oils and therapeutic ingredients used since antiquity.
Mt. Vernon, NY. The Montfort Academy's President Richard Greco, Jr. today announced that Montfort's Girls Basketball team defeated EF Academy by a score of 39 to 29 in the championship game of the Westchester Independent Athletic Association yesterday.
The-year-old great-great-grandmother has sworn by the fresh-squeezed vegetable juice for 100 years - make that 101 March 23. "She drank a lot of carrot juice and so do I," said Laub's daughter, Michelle Gately, 79, of Monroe, New York. Born in the midst of World War I, Laub has seen it all while embracing the role of a housewife for decades in New York City, and later Mount Vernon.
... off the bus at home. Philip Anderson was found 7:30 a.m. Saturday wandering in the bus yard on Miller Place in Mount Vernon. Haywood and the bus driver, Laikhraj Prashad Persaud, were both arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a ...
Two were arrested in New Rochelle over the weekend after "purposely misleading" police during an "exhaustive search" for a missing autistic teenager, authorities said. Shortly after midnight on Saturday, March 4, police received a call from a mother reporting that her 16-year-old child, who has special needs, had gone missing after he was supposed to be dropped off by Mount Vernon-based First Student Inc. Bus hours earlier following an event in New Rochelle that he attends regularly.
... (Amitville, N.Y.) led The Hall with a career-high 13 points in the setback, while senior and fellow center (Mount Vernon, N.Y.) closed her Seton Hall career with eight points and eight rebounds. For DePaul, Chante Stonewall led four players in ...
... at 4 p.m. Tuesday at White Plains High School. The Bushmen play the winner of Sunday's Section 1 final between Mount Vernon and Scarsdale. “Losing was not an option today,” Memmelaar said. “We know that banner in our gym has one ...
New Rochelle Police Locate Missing Autistic Child Left on Bus Overnight in Frigid Conditions, Bus Monitor and Bus Driver Arrested New Rochelle Police Locate Missing Autistic Child Left on Bus Overnight in Frigid Conditions, Bus Monitor and Bus Driver Arrested UPDATE 3:25 PM BUS DRIVER AND BUS MONITOR ARRESTED, CHARGED WITH RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT AND ENDANGERING THE WELFARE OF A CHILD NEW ROCHELLE, NY -- New Rochelle Police and Westchester County Police are engaged in a search for a missing non-verbal, autistic child, last seen at 22:00 hours getting on a Mile Square School Bus at or near Frank Davis Court at Heritage Homes in downtown New Rochelle. The bus was going to the Doyle Center in Mount Vernon.
New Rochelle Police and Westchester County Police are engaged in a search for a missing non-verbal, autistic child, last seen at 22:00 hours getting on a Mile Square School Bus at or near Frank Davis Court at Heritage Homes in downtown New Rochelle. The bus was going to the Doyle Center in Mount Vernon.
... flagged down Westchester County Police Officer Jerome Schulman III on the eastbound Cross County Parkway in Mount Vernon to report that a white sedan had rear-ended her car and fled the scene. Schulman began a canvass of the Cross County Parkway and ...
The Mount Vernon Industrial Development Agency has inked a deal that will bring an Austrian-based multi-million dollar business to Mount Vernon. On Thursday, Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas - who also serves as the chairman of the MVIDA - announced that they have approved an inducement resolution for MK Illumination USA, Inc. to purchase property and relocate their factory operations to Mount Vernon.
A former religion teacher at the Westchester Day School in Mamaroneck who pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography -- including videos he had gotten mailed to the school where he worked -- will be spending some time behind bars. Lyle Kamlet, a Mount Vernon resident, was sentenced Tuesday to three years and three months in prison by Judge Kenneth M. Karas in federal court in White Plains, according to Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
