Trump Fires Yonkers Native, FBI Director James Comey

FBI Director James Comey, a native of Yonkers, has been fired as FBI director by President Donald Trump in a surprising announcement made late Tuesday afternoon. The firing, which the White House says came on the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, comes just days after Comey testified to Congress regarding his handling of the email investigation of Chappaqua's Hillary Clinton.

When it comes to supporting the US president, FSU Jews say Israel trumps all

... people should know conservatives are not evil. Just because we support Trump doesn't make us evil." A resident of Yonkers, NY, Rappaport immigrated to the US in 1979 from Leningrad. He is one of about 750,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union living ...

M-E students get prime seats for Electoral College

E students get prime seats for Electoral College 110 students from across the state were among those invited to view the proceedings Monday. Check out this story on pressconnects.com: http://press.sn/2i6NX5x Kyrollos Shehata, left, of Yonkers Montessori Academy and Mateo Carrillo of Roosevelt High School were among about 110 students who were in attendance Monday for a meeting of New York's Electoral College.

Nov. 22: ‘Hamilton,’ Electoral College and swastikas

... nor Pence has even been given the chance to raise their right hands to take the oath of office. Edward Galorenzo Yonkers: After producers put out a casting call for nonwhites only, I find it hysterical that the cast of "Hamilton" can lecture anybody ...

Happy Birthday, HRC: A decade-by-decade look at Clinton’s life

... seat in New York - and she would go on to win the seat by more than double the share of her challenger, former Yonkers mayor John Spencer. Then-first lady Hillary Clinton blows out the candles of her birthday cake as then-president Bill Clinton ...

Sen. Stewart-Cousins hits campaign trail for fellow Democrats

State Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins hit the campaign trail Monday to court voters at the Nodine Hill Community Center in Yonkers, despite having no opponents in the upcoming election. The Yonkers Democrat says there is even more at stake than her re-election if there is a strong Hillary Clinton turnout statewide on Election Day.