A state comptroller’s report on Yonkers paints a grim picture of both the city and school district’s proposed budgets for 2024-25, saying that revenue and expenditure projections are unreasonable. The report, dated May 20 and released Friday, contends that the school district budget is “structurally unbalanced” with a $61.9 million budget gap. Among other things, […]
A New York City police officer from Yonkers has been charged with attempted murder in New Jersey for a road rage incident in which he allegedly used his service weapon to shoot another motorist, the Camden County Prosecutors Office said Friday. Hieu Tran, 27, was arrested Thursday at NYPD headquarters in Manhattan, where the 3-year […]
A Yonkers woman who killed her partner after an argument when she drove drunk and struck the wall of a school with him on the hood of her car pleaded guilty Thursday. Mercedes Vargas, 45, of Stanley Avenue, was promised a sentence of five years probation including six months in the county jail after pleading […]
A new adult-use cannabis dispensary is opening its doors in Yonkers Thursday, joining a small but growing number of legal, state-approved dispensaries in the county. The Plant, Yonkers’ first legal adult-use cannabis dispensary is hosting its grand opening at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 9, making it the seventh official dispensary in the Lower Hudson Valley […]
Yonkers detectives have made an arrest in the hit-and-run death of a woman near the train station early Monday morning. Geneby Clase of Yonkers allegedly struck the woman with his SUV on Buena Vista Avenue near Main Street just before 5 a.m., police said. He was arrested later that day and charged with leaving the […]
Con Edison is continuing cleanup efforts in Yonkers after a company-owned transmission feeder accidentally spilled 1,000 gallons of insulating fluid which leaked into a storm drain leading to the Bronx River on April 1. The utility company said the non-hazardous fluid did not contain PCBs or benzene, two toxic substances which cause significant health issues, […]
A police SUV pulling a sudden U-turn collided with Sandie Ortiz’ compact car last summer. She believed the cop was clearly at fault, but her claim for the $3,000 repair bill lingers unresolved today. Suing Yonkers Police Department has become the only option left, Ortiz said, but it seems daunting considering the possibility of paying […]
Westchester District Attorney Mimi Rocah’s office is investigating the use of force by a Yonkers police officer in an arrest of a car robbery suspect on Thursday, March 14 in the area near McLean Ave. and Van Cortlandt Park Ave., Yonkers police Detective Sergeant Frank DiDomizio said in a news release late Friday afternoon. According […]
A 19-year-old Yonkers man was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly attacked children at Downing Park in Yorktown Heights. Yorktown police said it received reports of a male physically attacking children at the park Wednesday morning around 10:10 a.m. Police said the suspect approached two children at the playground and grabbed one child’s hood and pulled, […]
An 18-year-old Yonkers resident who pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a man inside a pickup truck last month first told police that the victim had shot himself and then acknowledged he had been holding the gun but that it went off accidentally. Ludvin Ramos-Cervantes was arraigned in Westchester County Court on […]
Yonkers police have arrested a teenager in connection with a fatal hit-and-run this week that followed an argument between the victim and the suspect. Detectives working with the police AWARE Crime Control Center located the 17-year-old and the Mercedes Benz involved in the incident at a home in East Meadow, NY on Tuesday, a day […]
Yonkers is paying out $10 million to settle lawsuits resulting from a 2015 police pursuit of a stolen van that left a woman dead when her car was hit by the van and a teenage passenger in the van seriously injured. The City Council last month approved $8.5 million for Sha’de Lane, now 21, her […]