Thursday, March 10, 2016

Ghana Makes History with First Ever Flag Raising in Yonkers ... - GhanaWeb


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Ghana Makes History with First Ever Flag Raising in Yonkers ...
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The Ghana flag was for the first time raised in front of the Yonkers City Hall in New York to commemorate the 59th independence anniversary. It is the first ever ...

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Neil Simon was the King of Comedy, whose reign on Broadway lasted nearly 40 years. Best known for "The Odd Couple," he managed to write a few relatively dramatic comedies among his dozens of plays and musicals. His 1991 Pulitzer Prize winner, "Lost in ...

Man accused of rigging license plate to avoid GWB toll

Javier Marte allegedly tried to avoid George Washington Bridge toll Yonkers man accused of rigging license plate with fishing rod A Yonkers man rigged his license plate with fishing line to avoid paying a toll on the George Washington Bridge, authorities said.

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Yonkers man convicted in deadly crash | News 12 Westchester
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A Yonkers man faces seven years in prison after being convicted of vehicular manslaughter in a deadly car crash. Prosecutors say Antoine Simmons, 35, was.
Guilty verdict in vehicular manslaughter death of passengerMid-Hudson News

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Spano delivers Yonkers State of the City address | News 12 ...
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Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano delivered his first State of the City address in his second term as mayor Wednesday night.
Yonkers firefighters cancel protest, restart negotiationsThe Journal News | LoHud.com

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Man accused of rigging license plate to avoid GWB toll

Javier Marte allegedly tried to avoid George Washington Bridge toll Yonkers man accused of rigging license plate ... Attorney information for him was not immediately available. Alison Fox covers crime and breaking news for amNewYork. When she’s not ...

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Two Bobcats Spotted In Westchester County
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SOMERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — A town in northern Westchester County is abuzz after two bobcats were spotted. A photo posted to social media shows two bobcats – estimated at more than 50 pounds each – showing up outside a home in Valley Drive in ...


Gardena Valley News

Turnovers plague Panthers in City semifinal loss to Hamilton; all sports for March 3
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Jamal Hicks, who also keyed the Gauchos' football team to the City Division I and California State Division IA titles in December, led Narbonne with 12 points and four steals. The Gauchos, who improved to 22-6, played without ... injured which makes ...


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The Journal News Golf Show is back with a new focus
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After taking a year off, The Journal News Golf Show is back. The primary focus on Saturday and Sunday at the Westchester Marriott in Tarrytown will be education and inspiration. “Our objective this year was to significantly raise the bar relative to ...

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4 Arrested In Drive-By Shooting Death Of Baseball Prospect In Yonkers
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Hunter is charged with second degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon while the other three are each charged with criminal possession of a weapon and assault, acting Westchester County District Attorney James A. McCarty said. The incident ...

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Nurse killed on way to work
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Polie say a SUV fatally struck a 56-year-old Mount Vernon woman who was walking to work today. (February 24, 2016 6:17 PM). A Mount Vernon woman was fatally struck by an SUV while she was walking to work Wednesday. Police say the 56-year–old ...

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Two men severely injured in Town of Wallkill explosion
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Two LifeNet helicopters that landed in a field by the Grand Rental Station at East Main Street and Fairfax Avenue, a block from Oprandy's, flew the men to Westchester Medical Center. They were listed in serious condition Friday afternoon. Wallkill ...

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Yonkers Officials Rounding Up Foreclosed Properties For Resale

YONKERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)– First Brooklyn ... Some properties are a stone’s throw away from the New York City line. “You have the subway, which is just a bus ride away, and you have a very friendly, family oriented environment here… I have ...

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Yonkers Officials Rounding Up Foreclosed Properties For Resale ...
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Officials in Yonkers are rounding up foreclosed properties for resale and predicting a brisk market. Along the Yonkers waterfront, you can see the activity within ...

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YONKERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)– First Brooklyn ... Some will be used as seed parcels for parks and at least one new school.
YONKERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)– First Brooklyn, then Hoboken, and now Yonkers. Officials in Yonkers are rounding up foreclosed properties for resale and predicting a brisk market. Along the Yonkers waterfront, you can see the activity within sight of the ...

Mount Vernon district leader will oppose Eliot Engel - The Journal News | LoHud.com


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Mount Vernon district leader will oppose Eliot Engel
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The chairman of the Westchester Country Crime Stoppers will oppose Eliot Engel for the congressional seat that Engel has held for three decades. Derickson Lawrence announced his candidacy this week for the ... As the CEO of MarketView Resources, he ...

Javier Marte, 41, of Yonkers, faces two counts – one for theft of services and another for tampering with public records – after authorities caught up to him at the George Washington Bridge toll lane in New Jersey. Officer George Kwiecinski pulled ...

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Yonkers man convicted in deadly crash
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A Yonkers man faces seven years in prison after being convicted of vehicular manslaughter in a deadly car crash. Prosecutors say Antoine Simmons, 35, was high on drugs and speeding when he slammed into a tree on Rumsey Road in Yonkers in 2014.
Guilty verdict in vehicular manslaughter death of passengerMid-Hudson News

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Spano delivers Yonkers State of the City address
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Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano delivered his first State of the City address in his second term as mayor Wednesday night. (March 9 ... Content Preview This content is exclusive for Optimum, Time Warner®, Comcast®, customers with access to News 12. Already ...
Yonkers firefighters cancel protest, restart negotiationsThe Journal News | LoHud.com

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Yonkers police find possible explosive device
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A possible explosive device is causing a heavy police presence in Yonkers today. Police say they got a phone call at around 7:45 a.m. about a suspicious package in the trunk of someone's car in the area of 270 North Broadway. The roadway has been ...
Yonkers: Police investigate 'suspicious device'The Journal News | LoHud.com
Suspicious device found in car in Yonkers Wednesday morning deemed safeWABC-TV
Bomb Squad Responds After Suspicious Device Found In Car In YonkersCBS Local
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Yonkers may auction up to 250 foreclosed properties
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... the city has recovered more than $6 million through tax liens, Gilmartin added. Some of the first 17 properties include a burned house at 18 Vineyard Ave. and a derelict mixed-used building at 205 Ashburton Ave. Twitter: @ErnieJourno. More Yonkers ...

Things to Do in the Hudson Valley, March 12 Through 27

March 12 and 13. $10 and $12. Woodstock Playhouse, Routes 212 and 375. 845-679-6900; woodstockplayhouse.org. YONKERS Planetarium Show, “Tycho to the Moon.” Learn about night and day, space travel, phases of the moon and features of the lunar surface.

Yonkers: Saturday 3/12 Analysis

(8) GOLD ROCKS has been in good form out of town, now ships in and joins the 'powerhouse' Milici barn; post eight may be no problem if this one is revved up. (5) MC RUSTY usually races as well as he draws but this one can kick home nicely off a good setup.
Neil Simon was the King of Comedy, whose reign on Broadway lasted nearly 40 years. Best known for "The Odd Couple," he managed to write a few relatively dramatic comedies among his dozens of plays and musicals. His 1991 Pulitzer Prize winner, "Lost in ...
Taste Test To assess the flavor and quality of the rotisserie-style sub, we purchased six sandwiches from three different Subway locations near our offices in Yonkers, N.Y., for our dietitians and professional food tasters to sample. We asked that our ...
Both are open to the idea of buying a home in Ireland, but the question is where. “I would like Dublin,” said Wandzilak, who lives in Yonkers and spent childhood vacations in Ireland. Thornton, who immigrated to New York in 1970, wouldn’t mind ...
A Yonkers man faces seven years in prison after being convicted of vehicular manslaughter in a deadly car crash. Prosecutors say Antoine Simmons, 35, was high on drugs and speeding when he slammed into a tree on Rumsey Road in Yonkers in 2014. His ...
YONKERS - Firefighters planned to crash Mayor Mike Spano’s State of the City address Wednesday with a protest over lingering contract grievances, but both sides agreed in a last minute compromise to get back to the negotiating table. The Yonkers ...
YONKERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Police in Yonkers are investigating a suspicious device found in a car in an apartment parking lot. The building at 270 North Broadway was evacuated Wednesday morning when one of the residents got in her car and found what ...

'Tornado of Darkness': We Saw the Total Solar Eclipse from a Plane (Video)

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A man who was high on PCP and marijuana when he crashed his car in Yonkers two years ago, killing his passenger, was convicted Wednesday of vehicular manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. The Westchester District Attorney's Office said Antoine ...

Bomb Squad Responds After Suspicious Device Found In Car In Yonkers

YONKERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Police in Yonkers are investigating a suspicious device found in a car in an apartment parking lot. The building at 270 North Broadway was evacuated Wednesday morning when one of the residents got in her car and found what ...
A suspicious device prompted a heavy police presence Wednesday morning in Yonkers. Police say they got a phone call around 7:45 a.m. about a suspicious package in the trunk of a 32-year-old woman's car parked in a lot at 270 North Broadway. "She got in ...
Police have determined that a suspicious device found in a car in Yonkers Wednesday morning is safe. Around 7:30 a.m., police responded to a report of a device near 270 North Broadway. A woman said she found the item in the trunk of her car, which was ...

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Truck driver beat GWB toll using fishing line, cops say (VIDEO)
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Javier Marte, 41, Yonkers was charged with tampering with public records and theft of services. He was also charged with ... The latter charge was because Marte allegedly "used the line to facilitate the crime," Pentangelo said. The fare for the truck ...
Police: Trucker used fishing line to flip plate in toll scamGlens Falls Post-Star

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While U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is remaining tight-lipped on the news, there have been visible signs of trouble brewing for months, with multiple FBI raids being carried out and dozens of subpoenas being...
Suggested donation starts at $12. “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology ... Sachs curated playlists, incorporating Brooklyn's rich music history. Westchester Square in 1910, one of the images used in an exhibit, chronicling how the ...

Police: Trucker used fishing line to flip plate in toll scam

FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) - Police say a truck driver used fishing line to flip his license plate in a bid to avoid paying tolls into New York City. A police officer says he saw 41-year-old Javier Marte of Yonkers, New York, drive through a George Washington ...
A police officer says he saw 41-year-old Javier Marte of Yonkers, New York, drive through a George Washington Bridge electronic toll lane without the toll registering on Wednesday night. Police stopped his truck and found a fishing line rigged from the cab ...

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Yonkers school at risk for takeover makes the grade
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Roosevelt's graduation rate now stands at 79 percent, which is above the state's average. The state took the graduation rate and test scores into account when it moved the school from a list of persistently struggling schools to a list of schools that ...

Police: Trucker used fishing line to flip plate in toll scam

A police officer says he saw 41-year-old Javier Marte of Yonkers, New York, drive through a George Washington ... It's not known if he has a lawyer who can comment. Crime & Justice Transportation
Reigning from YOnkers, NY, young come up YOng W.I.T draws inspiration for his continuous grind and decided to spew some bars over the Taylor Gang honcho's echoing single "Permission." The remix serves as anticipation for the YDG emcee's upcoming project ...

Police: Trucker used fishing line to flip plate in toll scam

A police officer says he saw 41-year-old Javier Marte of Yonkers, New York, drive through a George Washington Bridge electronic toll lane without the toll registering on Wednesday night. Police stopped his truck and found a fishing line rigged from the cab ...
A police officer says he saw 41-year-old Javier Marte of Yonkers, New York, drive through an E-ZPass toll lane without the toll registering on Wednesday night. Police stopped his truck and found a fishing line rigged from the cab to a hinge on the front ...

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Yonkers man convicted in deadly crash | News 12 Westchester
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A Yonkers man faces seven years in prison after being convicted of vehicular manslaughter in a deadly car crash. Prosecutors say Antoine Simmons, 35, was.

YONKERS - Firefighters planned to crash Mayor Mike Spano’s State of the City address Wednesday with a protest over lingering contract grievances, but both sides agreed in a last minute compromise to get back to the negotiating table. The Yonkers ...
He said his top priority is tackling a financially struggling Yonkers School District. "We said no more cuts to school. Cuts will be the last thing we do and bring in teachers,"...

Yonkers man convicted in deadly crash

A Yonkers man faces seven years in prison after being convicted of vehicular manslaughter in a deadly car crash. Prosecutors say Antoine Simmons, 35, was high on drugs and speeding when he slammed into a tree on Rumsey Road in Yonkers in 2014. His ...
Officer George Kwiecinski saw a 2006 Freightliner with no front plate passing through the tolls about 7:15 p.m. on the Fort Lee side of the bridge, according to police spokesman Joe ... Javier Marte, 41, Yonkers was charged with tampering with public ...

The YO: Yonkers parochial schools get new life - The Journal News | LoHud.com


The YO: Yonkers parochial schools get new life
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Former parochial schools in Yonkers are getting new life thanks to the Yonkers Public Schools and other educational programs. At least four former Catholic education buildings are being used in the city for non-religious purposes, and more could be ...

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Five Troubled Yonkers Schools Have Improved Their Status
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YONKERS, N.Y. -- Five Yonkers schools have migrated out of the worst status as designated by the state Department of Education, according to reporting by the Journal News. That worst status is "priority," which contains schools that are designated as ...


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Yonkers sees five schools improve from failing status
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A state report released this afternoon removes five Yonkers city schools from a list identifying schools as "failing" and "persistently failing." Because those five schools are no longer considered priority – priority being the worst status, then ...
3 Yonkers schools removed from struggling listNews 12 Westchester

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Javier Marte, 41, Yonkers was charged with tampering with public records and theft of services, the spokesman said.
TORRINGTON >> Lost in Yonkers, Neil Simon’s memory play in 1942 Yonkers, New York, continues in the Nancy Marine Studio Theater at the Warner through Sunday, March 24. The play premiered at The Center for the Performing Arts in Winston-Salem, North ...
Astorino, Westchester County Executive; Ed Day, Rockland County Executive; Mike Spano, Mayor of Yonkers; and Kevin King, Director of the New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets. Since its beginning in 2006, Hudson Valley Restaurant Week has come ...
YONKERS, New York — The city of Yonkers could auction up to 250 properties obtained through foreclosure from owners who haven't paid their taxes. The Journal News reports (http://lohud.us/1LcAaE2) the City Council was expected to vote on the first batch ...

Guilty verdict in vehicular manslaughter death of passenger

WHITE PLAINS – A Westchester County Court jury on Wednesday convicted a Yonkers man of vehicular manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in connection with the death of his female companion. On October 19, 2014 at about 3:11 a.m., Antoine Simmons ...
Neil Simon was the King of Comedy, whose reign on Broadway lasted nearly 40 years. Best known for "The Odd Couple," he managed to write a few relatively dramatic comedies among his dozens of plays and musicals. His 1991 Pulitzer Prize winner, "Lost in ...
Local theatergoers might be surprised to hear what Karen McPherson’s voice sounds like in regular conversation. In three back-to-back shows so far this year, the busy actress used a Dutch accent for “Deathtrap” opening next week at the Academy ...
YONKERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Police in Yonkers are investigating a suspicious device found in a car in an apartment parking lot. The building at 270 North Broadway was evacuated Wednesday morning when one of the residents got in her car and found what ...
YONKERS - Firefighters planned to crash Mayor Mike Spano’s State of the City address Wednesday with a protest over lingering contract grievances, but both sides agreed in a last minute compromise to get back to the negotiating table. The Yonkers ...
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano delivered his first State of the City address in his second term as mayor Wednesday night. (Credit: News 12) Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano delivered his first State of the City address in his second term as mayor Wednesday night.
(5) OR did make up some ground having live cover but could not make headway to catch the top three last week. If he could revert to his February 23rd trip, it could be game over for the rest of these. (3) SWIFT AS A SHADOW flashed good speed to finish ...
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano delivered his first State of the City address in his second term as mayor Wednesday night. (Credit: News 12) Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano delivered his first State of the City address in his second term as mayor Wednesday night.

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Courthouse Records
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Luis Jimenez, 38, of Yonkers, N.Y., charged with shoplifting and larceny under $250, continued to April 25. ... James Prophet, 34, of 15 Oread St., Worcester, charged with threatening to commit a crime (to kill) and disorderly conduct, filed with a ...

While U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is remaining tight-lipped on the news, there have been visible signs of trouble brewing for months, with multiple FBI raids being carried out and dozens of subpoenas being...

The Y-O: Yonkers parochial schools get new life - The Journal News | LoHud.com


The Y-O: Yonkers parochial schools get new life
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Former parochial schools in Yonkers are getting new life thanks to the Yonkers Public Schools and other educational programs.

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Both are open to the idea of buying a home in Ireland, but the question is where. “I would like Dublin,” said Wandzilak, who lives in Yonkers and spent childhood vacations in Ireland. Thornton, who immigrated to New York in 1970, wouldn’t mind ...
“I would like Dublin,” said Wandzilak, who lives in Yonkers and spent childhood vacations in Ireland. Thornton, who immigrated to New York in 1970, wouldn’t mind retiring in Ireland, at least for part of the year. “Florida I wouldn’t like,” she ...

Spano delivers Yonkers State of the City address - News 12 Westchester


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Spano delivers Yonkers State of the City address
News 12 Westchester
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano delivered his first State of the City address in his second term as mayor Wednesday night. (Credit: ... Content Preview This content is exclusive for Optimum, Time Warner®, Comcast®, customers with access to News 12. Already ...
Yonkers firefighters cancel protest, restart negotiationsThe Journal News | LoHud.com

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Accents are a specialty for 'Yonkers' actresses

Both "Yonkers" actresses say they’ve realized they have a facility ... a young hero who teams up with a wisecracking genie to win the heart of a princess and fight the evil Jafar. Shows are at 7 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday ...
Neil Simon was the King of Comedy, whose reign on Broadway lasted nearly 40 years. Best known for "The Odd Couple," he managed to write a few relatively dramatic comedies among his dozens of plays and musicals. His 1991 Pulitzer Prize winner, "Lost in ...
Local theatergoers might be surprised to hear what Karen McPherson’s voice sounds like in regular conversation. In three back-to-back shows so far this year, the busy actress used a Dutch accent for “Deathtrap” opening next week at the Academy ...
Both "Yonkers" actresses say they’ve realized they have a facility ... of movies set in Boston in recent years knows that McPherson is hardly alone. High schools stage spring musicals Fantasy characters will be brought to life on two Cape high-school ...