Month: December 2016

Westchester Criminal Faces Life In Prison, Deportation For Assaulting Cop

A longtime Mount Vernon criminal is facing serious charges after being charged in an 11-count indictment for allegedly attempting to stab a police officer who intervened when he was attempting to steal rims from a car dealership in Mount Kisco. On Thursday, acting Westchester County District Attorney James McCarty announced that Ronald Clare Greenland, 53, was arraigned in Westchester County Court on multiple charges for a November incident at the Arroway Chevrolet-Cadillac dealership on North Bedford Road.

Downstate New York Suburbs To Welcome Back Gun Shows

Phil Burns, a firearms instructor, holds a handgun that he carries as part of his survival supplies at his home in American Fork, Utah, Dec. 14, 2012. Democrats in the downstate New York suburbs of Westchester County want to stop a scheduled gun show in the area, but their efforts appear to be on track to be rebuffed by the Republican county executive.

Yorktown Resident Stabs Man In Parking Lot Of Somers Bar, Police Say

A 23-year-old Yorktown man is in the Westchester County Jail after state police say he stabbed a 28-year-old male from Mahopac after an overnight fight at PJ’s Bar, located on Route 6 in Somers, escalated. State police from the Somers barracks charged James P. Nardella of Yorktown Heights with assault in the first degree, a Class B felony, on Sunday.

New Taconic Parkway Exit Signs In Westchester Unveiled

New exit signs along the Taconic State Parkway in Westchester County that are numbered based on the distance from the beginning of the parkway to each interchange, rather than in consecutive order, have been unveiled. For example, the exit to State Routes 100 and 133 is now Exit 8, because it is eight miles from the start of the parkway at the traffic circle near the Kensico Dam Plaza in Westchester County, said New York State Department of Transportation Commissioner Matthew J. Driscoll.

New Taconic Parkway Exit Signs In Westchester Unveiled

New exit signs along the Taconic State Parkway in Westchester County that are numbered based on the distance from the beginning of the parkway to each interchange, rather than in consecutive order, have been unveiled. For example, the exit to State Routes 100 and 133 is now Exit 8, because it is eight miles from the start of the parkway at the traffic circle near the Kensico Dam Plaza in Westchester County, said New York State Department of Transportation Commissioner Matthew J. Driscoll.

Who will lead the Democrats out of the wilderness?

A recent article reporting that some of Hillary Clinton’s supporters are searching for a glimpse of her as she wanders the woods near her Westchester County, New York, home seems a good signal to declare that the Democrats’ wilderness years have officially begun. The final Democratic hopes to change the election’s outcome expired Monday when the electoral college certified Donald Trump as the next president.

Who will lead the Democrats out of the wilderness?

A recent article reporting that some of Hillary Clinton’s supporters are searching for a glimpse of her as she wanders the woods near her Westchester County, New York, home seems a good signal to declare that the Democrats’ wilderness years have officially begun. The final Democratic hopes to change the election’s outcome expired Monday when the electoral college certified Donald Trump as the next president.

Furniture Sharehouse Tweets its Way to $10,000

… The grant will help address a hidden need by providing free furniture directly to those who need it most. WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. – Dec. 21, 2016 – PRLog — How valuable is a tweet? When it’s “short & tweet”, it is worth $10,000. Furniture …

Congressman Democrat Eliot Engel: When He Will Support and When He Will Oppose the New President

Congressman Eliot Engel, the powerful 15 term senior Democrat whose 16th District covers the northern Bronx and southwest Westchester County, told me in a recent interview conducted in his Riverdale office that the election of Donald Trump came as a total surprise to him. “Like many others, I just didn’t think it possible,” he said,” that a candidate who had made so many insulting remarks about so many different groups of people could have been elected as President of the United States.”

Congressman Democrat Eliot Engel: When He Will Support and When He Will Oppose the New President

Congressman Eliot Engel, the powerful 15 term senior Democrat whose 16th District covers the northern Bronx and southwest Westchester County, told me in a recent interview conducted in his Riverdale office that the election of Donald Trump came as a total surprise to him. “Like many others, I just didn’t think it possible,” he said,” that a candidate who had made so many insulting remarks about so many different groups of people could have been elected as President of the United States.”

County Legislators Call For Ban On Gun Shows, Astorino Defends Them

The Westchester County Board of Legislators plans to vote Jan. 9 to ban gun shows in public facilities after one was scheduled for Jan. 20-21 at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, the weekend after Inaugural Day. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — As several Democratic members of the Westchester County Board of Legislators called for a continued ban on gun shows at government facilities, County Executive Rob Astorino defended next month’s planned show at the County Center.

Trump children face scrutiny over fundraisers

… charity fundraising that came with any access to those people. After former Bill Clinton told a local Westchester County newspaper Trump “doesn’t know much,” Trump shot back on Twitter saying Clinton “doesn’t know much” about getting voters to the …

Retired cop allegedly killed four men in coke deal gone bad :0

Victims Hector Gutierrez , Martin Santos-Luna , Urbano Morales-Santiago , and Miguel Sosa-Luna A retired Westchester County police officer murdered four men – including two who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time – in a “gangland-style” crime during a drug deal gone bad, prosecutors said Tuesday. Nicholas Tartaglione, who worked as a cop in Briarcliff Manor and Mount Vernon, as well as upstate Pawling, was arrested Monday for killing Martin Luna, Urbano Santiago, Miguel Luna, and Hector Gutierrez in April at a bar called Likquid Lounge in Chester, Orange County, authorities said.

Retired cop allegedly killed four men in coke deal gone bad :0

Victims Hector Gutierrez , Martin Santos-Luna , Urbano Morales-Santiago , and Miguel Sosa-Luna A retired Westchester County police officer murdered four men – including two who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time – in a “gangland-style” crime during a drug deal gone bad, prosecutors said Tuesday. Nicholas Tartaglione, who worked as a cop in Briarcliff Manor and Mount Vernon, as well as upstate Pawling, was arrested Monday for killing Martin Luna, Urbano Santiago, Miguel Luna, and Hector Gutierrez in April at a bar called Likquid Lounge in Chester, Orange County, authorities said.

Westchester Board Of Legislators Calls For Showdown On Banning Gun Show

The Westchester County Board of Legislators plans to vote Jan. 9 to ban gun shows in public facilities after one was scheduled for Jan. 21-22 at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, the weekend after Inaugural Day. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The chairman of the Westchester County Board of Legislators vowed there will be a showdown on Jan. 9 over whether a gun and knife show can take place at the County Center in White Plains, as reported here earlier by Daily Voice.

Westchester Board Of Legislators Calls For Showdown On Banning Gun Show

The Westchester County Board of Legislators plans to vote Jan. 9 to ban gun shows in public facilities after one was scheduled for Jan. 21-22 at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, the weekend after Inaugural Day. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The chairman of the Westchester County Board of Legislators vowed there will be a showdown on Jan. 9 over whether a gun and knife show can take place at the County Center in White Plains, as reported here earlier by Daily Voice.