Thursday, March 24, 2016

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Yonkers cab driver stabbed in neck by fare and cab stolen, abandoned
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YONKERS - A taxi cab driver was stabbed in the neck by his fare but was able to run from the cab into St. John's Hospital, police said Thursday. Police didn't reveal a motive for the stabbing but the passenger drove off in the cab. The driver is ...

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Yonkers bank robbery suspect caught on surveillance video
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YONKERS - A man who stole $6,000 from a bank on Central Park Avenue last week remains at large, police said. The man entered the Atlantic Bank, at 2320 Central Park Ave., around 5:50 p.m. on Friday and handed the bank teller a note, Yonkers police ...
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Yonkers police seek Atlantic Bank robber
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YONKERS - The police are seeking the person who robbed the Atlantic Bank on Friday. At about 5:50 p.m., the robber passed a note to a teller at the bank at 2320 Central Park Ave. and then fled on foot with about $6,000, according to the police. A ...


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Man charged in Yonkers domestic violence incident
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Yonkers police say one man is being charged with assault following his arrest Saturday morning. Police were called to 35 Grassy Sprain Road just after 3 a.m. in what they describe as a case of domestic violence. A man at the home was led away in ...
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Yonkers Police Investigate Reports Of Gunfire Near Cottage Place
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YONKERS, N. Y. -- Yonkers police recovered several bullet casings from the playground area at the Cottage Place Gardens Apartments after residents reported hearing gunfire Saturday night, according to News 12 Westchester. Several calls came in to ...


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Yonkers: Police investigate 'suspicious device'
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\YONKERS - Streets were closed for hours Wednesday morning around a section of North Broadway while police investigated a suspicious item found in a car. The Westchester County bomb squad determined the item found inside a car was safe late ...
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LIVE: Reich and the police; Yonkers bomb threat over
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1:38 p.m. - Drunken driving is never a good idea, but it's an especially bad idea March 12 through March 17, when the New York State Police will be upping their DWI game, setting up more checkpoints and more road patrols for St. Patrick's Day, as Jon ...

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Reward Offered For Information In Brutal Attack On Yonkers Livery Cab Driver

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A reward has been offered for information in an attack on a livery cab driver in Yonkers. At 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, in the parking lot at 984 North Broadway in Yonkers, the suspect attempted to rob the driver. During the course ...

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Yonkers cab driver stabbed in neck by fare and cab stolen, abandoned
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YONKERS - A taxi cab driver was stabbed in the neck by his fare but was able to run from the cab into St. John's Hospital, police said Thursday. Police didn't reveal a motive for the stabbing but the passenger drove off in the cab. The driver is ...

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Yonkers cab driver stabbed in neck by fare and cab stolen, abandoned

YONKERS - A taxi cab driver was stabbed in the neck by his fare but was able to run from the cab into St. John's Hospital, police said Thursday. Police didn't reveal a motive for the stabbing but the passenger drove off in the cab. The driver is expected ...
YONKERS - A taxi cab driver was stabbed in the neck by his fare but was able to run from the cab into St. John's Hospital, police said Thursday. Police didn't reveal a motive for the stabbing but the passenger drove off in the cab. The driver is expected ...
A cab driver is recovering after being attacked and carjacked Wednesday night in Yonkers. Police say the taxi driver, 40-year-old Cristian Amparo, picked up a fare on North Broadway around 6 p.m. The suspect then stabbed the driver in the face and neck and ...
On Thursday night, friends and family of the victim gathered with dozens of drivers in front of the Family Car Service in Yonkers. “We are constantly being attacked and we will fight back every single time. Together we will expose those who prey on use ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A reward has been offered for information in an attack on a livery cab driver in Yonkers. At 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, in the parking lot at 984 North Broadway in Yonkers, the suspect attempted to rob the driver. During the course ...
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Yonkers Cabbie Critical after Violent Carjacking

A livery cab driver is fighting for his life in a Westchester County hospital after being slashed across the face and neck in a carjacking. Cristian Amparo, 40, a driver from Yonkers, was attacked Wednesday by a passenger armed with a knife who slashed and ...
Cristian Amparo, 40, a driver from Yonkers, was attacked Wednesday by a passenger armed ... The attacker sped away in the cab, which he later abandoned. The New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers is offering a $3,000 reward for information leading ...
Cristian Amparo, 40, a driver from Yonkers, was attacked Wednesday by a passenger armed ... for information leading to capture of "the thug that committed this unprovoked crime," said Fernando Mateo, federation founder.
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Photo Flash: First Look at David Kovac in FOOLING BUDDHA at First Folio Theatre

Director Patrick New (The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Three Musketeers, and Around the World in Eighty Days), along with creator and star David Kovac (regional productions of Lost in Yonkers, Triple Espresso, and Design for Living at First Folio Theatre ...
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New NJ Casinos Could Impact New York Racinos

In the biggest line of financial fire would be the casinos at Aqueduct Racetrack and Yonkers Raceway, which are both close to the New Jersey border and do not have the same range of gambling offerings of a commercial casino. Hit, too, would be the recently ...
Residents and students of Ferncliff Manor received a trophy for their "Best Marching Unit - Junior Division" title, won at the 61st Annual Yonkers St. Patrick's Day Parade on McLean Avenue held on March 19, 2016. Judged by the 2016 Parade Committee ...

Body of crewman pulled from sunken tugboat as family watches
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"Many of his cousins were here and obviously it's been a traumatic experience for them over the course of many days," Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino told reporters at the scene Thursday. "The family has been ... Two other crew members died ...

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Cuomo: Tugboat crash at TZB 'tragic accident'
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A tugboat pulling a crane from Albany to Jersey City, New Jersey, collided in the early morning darkness Saturday with a construction barge under the Tappan Zee Bridge, killing at least one person. Two others crew members remain missing and are ...
New York tugboat crash leaves 1 dead, 2 missingCNN
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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 ...


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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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Downed tree closes Rt. 9 in Hastings
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Heavy rains are being blamed for a tree that came crashing down along with power lines. (February 4, 2016 10:52 AM). Related media. Traffic Center Traffic Cameras News 12 T&W LIVE Watch Traffic & Weather Live. Heavy rains are being blamed for a tree ...

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Teen struck, killed by train in Sleepy Hollow
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A 16-year-old boy was struck and killed by a southbound Metro-North train Monday afternoon. The incident happened around 2 p.m. near the Philipse Manor station. Sources tell News 12 that the train's engineer saw the teen leap from the platform. They ...

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Police: Peekskill woman charged with DWI
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A Peekskill woman has been charged with a DWI after police say she was driving the wrong way Friday on I-87. (January 15, 2016 10:38 AM). A Peekskill woman has been charged with a DWI after police say she was driving the wrong way Friday on I-87.

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Things to Do in the Hudson Valley, March 26 Through April 3 - New York Times


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Things to Do in the Hudson Valley, March 26 Through April 3
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Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times. A guide to cultural and recreational events in the Hudson Valley. Items for the ... YONKERS “Tycho to the Moon,” planetarium show. Learn about night and day, space travel and the moon. Ages 5 and up. Through ...

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Westchester traffic stop leads to drug conviction

Westchester County police made a routine traffic stop that ... The charges followed his arrest on the Hutchinson River Parkway on Feb. 12, 2013. Santillan and a fellow drug dealer had driven from Massachusetts to Manhattan to buy four kilograms of cocaine ...
"Many of his cousins were here and obviously it's been a traumatic experience for them over the course of many days," Westchester County Executive ... Two other crew members died in the March 12 collision when the tugboat, known as the Specialist, collided ...
the New York Times critic David Rooney wrote, “Mr. Simon is working here not as king of the snappy one-liner but from the heart, with a depth of character, humanity and personal investment that places ‘Lost in Yonkers’ among his more affecting works.”
and pressure would certainly be felt to locate at least one or two of the remaining casino slots somewhere in New York City or nearby suburbs. Whether that puts the racinos at Aqueduct and Yonkers in play for a full-blown casino license is uncertain.
The Yonkers City Council approved a resolution Tuesday agreeing ... The house has a full market value of $1.1 million, according to the city's assessment records. The New York State Real Property Tax Law exempts from property taxes homes owned by foreign ...
Joan was born to Frances and Alfred Pagano on Nov. 20,1933, in the Bronx, New York. She lived in the Bronx for her first eight years until her family moved to Yonkers, New York. She attained her early childhood education at Mount Saint Vincent Academy.

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Yonkers Woman Hospitalized With Gunshot Wound
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YONKERS, N.Y. -- Yonkers police are searching for suspects in the shooting of a city woman early Tuesday, March 23, according to a report by News12. The unidentified victim was hospitalized after the shooting that too place in a building on Elm Street, ...

The George Morton Levy series enters second round action on Saturday night and already it’s starting to look like a Down-Under affair. The prominence of imported stock has escalated over the years and perhaps the race will see it’s first champion from ...
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Circuit Upholds Housing Bias Claim Against Garden City

Spatt had dismissed the county because it had no control over the rezoning that affected the land—the county-owned "Social Services site"—and he refused to hold the county responsible for failing to fight Garden ... in Yonkers. The court issued several ...
The Coney Island rep can rap circles around anyone, though we could do without the gay slur. Styles, the elder statesmen of Yonkers, NY, is right at home over Milk’s drums and lays down a vicious 16 that features plenty of believable threats and a ...
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Yonkers rezoning for new Target, apartments

Yonkers officials are near the end of a process to rezone vacant land off Stew Leonard Drive to allow the construction of a new Target and about 400 apartments. The new zoning will allow Morris Builders of Rutherford, N.J., to erect a 175,000-square-foot ...
YONKERS, N.Y. -- Yonkers police are searching for suspects in the shooting of a city woman early Tuesday, March 23, according to a report by News12. The unidentified victim was hospitalized after the shooting that too place in a building on Elm Street ...
The other five students are: Sydnie Heslop, 16, is a resident of Mount Vernon who attends New Visions Charter High School for the Humanities in Yonkers, received acting and dance training at Youth Theater Interactions, also located in Yonkers. Emily ...
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Yonkers Woman Hospitalized With Gunshot Wound

YONKERS, N.Y. -- Yonkers police are searching for suspects in the shooting of a city woman early Tuesday, March 23, according to a report by News12. The unidentified victim was hospitalized after the shooting that too place in a building on Elm Street ...
A salvage company early Thursday raised the tugboat which sank 12 days ago in the Hudson River ... Members of the U.S. Coast Guard and Westchester County Police Department were combing through debris in the raised boat Thursday in a search for Hernandez ...
The other five students are: Sydnie Heslop, 16, is a resident of Mount Vernon who attends New Visions Charter High School for the Humanities in Yonkers, received acting ... of Anne Frank and worked at the New York Renaissance Faire last summer, where ...
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Neil Simon’s ‘Lost in Yonkers’ Next at Hampton Theatre Company

the New York Times critic David Rooney wrote, “Mr. Simon is working here not as king of the snappy one-liner but from the heart, with a depth of character, humanity and personal investment that places ‘Lost in Yonkers’ among his more affecting works.”
humanity and personal investment that places ‘Lost in Yonkers’ among his more affecting works.” Two newcomers to the Hampton Theatre Company will take on the roles of the teenage brothers: Jamie Baio, a junior at Sayville High School, as Jay ...
And anyway, this is more than a crime novel of cops and perps ... When that kind of biblical vengeance comes a-knocking at Billy’s Yonkers door, and in the person of beefy Milton Ramos, one of his Night Watch squad’s own detectives, no less, you ...
Yonkers is coming to Quogue next Thursday when Neil Simon’s play “Lost in Yonkers,” a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner, opens a three-week run at the Hampton Theatre Company. “Lost in Yonkers” is set in the summer of 1942, when Jay and Arty ...
MOUNT PLEASANT, N. Y. -- The developer of a proposed $1.2 billion biotech center next to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla says the value to the community of his development should warrant tax breaks from state, county and local governments ...
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Livery driver stabbed in Yonkers; suspect takes off in taxi

Authorities are searching for a suspect who stabbed a livery driver in Yonkers, and then took off in his cab. Police say at about 6 p.m. Wednesday, the driver picked up a fare on the street who wanted to go to a location on North Broadway in Yonkers.

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Gods and Monsters
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And anyway, this is more than a crime novel of cops and perps, it's a bare-knuckled story of urban America, with elemental forces at play — evil and compassion, crime and punishment, justice and vengeance, loyalty and betrayal, filial love and ...

Authorities are searching for a suspect who stabbed a livery driver in Yonkers, and then took off in his cab. Police say at about 6 p.m. Wednesday, the driver picked up a fare on the street who wanted to go to a location on North Broadway in Yonkers.
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Cabbie gets carjacked in Yonkers

A cabbie is recovering this morning after being attacked and carjacked in Yonkers. Police say the taxi driver picked up a fare on North Broadway around 6 p.m. on Wednesday. The suspect then assaulted the driver and took off with the car. The cab driver ...
This story has been updated. An accident that initially blocked the left and center lanes on a stretch of the southbound Bronx River Parkway at Bronx River Road in Yonkers caused heavu delays Thursday morning. A fuel spill also reportedly occurred as a ...
A cabbie is recovering this morning after being attacked and carjacked in Yonkers. Police say the taxi driver picked up a fare on North Broadway around 6 p.m. on Wednesday. The suspect then assaulted the driver and took off with the car. The cab driver ...
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2 men killed in tugboat crash died from drowning - KAUZ-TV: Newschannel 6 Now | Wichita Falls, TX - KAUZ-TV


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2 men killed in tugboat crash died from drowning - KAUZ-TV: Newschannel 6 Now | Wichita Falls, TX
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(AP Photo/Seth Wenig). Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, left, uses a diagram to explain the circumstances of a fatal collision on the water in Tarrytown, N.Y., Saturday, March 12, 2016. A tugboat crashed into a barge on the Hudson River nor.

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Admit One: Upcoming Events in Lower Hudson Valley - The Journal News | LoHud.com


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Admit One: Upcoming Events in Lower Hudson Valley
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On April 24, members of Yonkers Fire Department and Road Kings of NY take to the streets of Yonkers for the 8th annual Hogs 4 Hope: Falls to River Run. This year's city-wide motorcycle ride raises money for Ronald McDonald House and culminates at JFK ...

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New NJ Casinos Could Impact New York Racinos

In the biggest line of financial fire would be the casinos at Aqueduct Racetrack and Yonkers Raceway, which are both close to the New Jersey border and do not have the same range of gambling offerings of a commercial casino. Hit, too, would be the recently ...
An accident is blocking two lanes on a stretch of the southbound Bronx River Parkway at Bronx River Road in Yonkers on Thursday morning. A fuel spill has reportedly occurred as a result of the crash. Emergency responders are on the scene. Traffic is ...
and pressure would certainly be felt to locate at least one or two of the remaining casino slots somewhere in New York City or nearby suburbs. Whether that puts the racinos at Aqueduct and Yonkers in play for a full-blown casino license is uncertain.
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Senate debating new crossbow legislation - Lockport Union-Sun & Journal


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Senate debating new crossbow legislation
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Allow crossbows to be used during the entire archery season except for special archery-only areas in Suffolk and Westchester counties and the ones around Albany and Rochester. While the NYCC believes that those areas should be included, they cannot do ...

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The Republic of Zambia will pay Yonkers $6,957.14 in delinquent taxes dating to 2010. The Yonkers City Council approved a resolution Tuesday agreeing to waive more than $10,000 in interest and penalties on the unpaid taxes that were owed between 2010 and ...
The Yonkers City Council approved a resolution Tuesday agreeing ... The house has a full market value of $1.1 million, according to the city's assessment records. The New York State Real Property Tax Law exempts from property taxes homes owned by foreign ...
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Zambia to pay Yonkers for back taxes
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The New York State Real Property Tax Law exempts from property taxes homes owned by foreign governments for diplomatic personnel, but the foreign governments still have to pay refuse and sewage charges. Foreign governments receive exemptions ...

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1 dead, 2 missing after tugboat crash on Hudson River - KFDA


1 dead, 2 missing after tugboat crash on Hudson River
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Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino identified the dead crewman as Paul Amon, 62, of Bayville, New Jersey. Attempts to ... State Police divers began searching in the water about 12 hours after the crash. Earlier in the day ... AP National News ...

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Cuomo: Tugboat crash at TZB 'tragic accident'
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"We have taken many, many precautions to make sure everything is very well illuminated," he told The Journal News after he and his daughter, Michaela, toured the crash site by boat. "I don't think there's any question about the ... "Tappan Zee ...
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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 ...


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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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Downed tree closes Rt. 9 in Hastings
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Heavy rains are being blamed for a tree that came crashing down along with power lines. (February 4, 2016 10:52 AM). Related media. Traffic Center Traffic Cameras News 12 T&W LIVE Watch Traffic & Weather Live. Heavy rains are being blamed for a tree ...

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Teen struck, killed by train in Sleepy Hollow
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A 16-year-old boy was struck and killed by a southbound Metro-North train Monday afternoon. The incident happened around 2 p.m. near the Philipse Manor station. Sources tell News 12 that the train's engineer saw the teen leap from the platform. They ...

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