Hundreds Laid Off As Yonkers Schools Face Crippling Budget Crunch
There's high anxiety in New York's fourth largest city, as Yonkers schools face crushing program cuts in a faceoff between the city and its teachers union.
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There's high anxiety in New York's fourth largest city, as Yonkers schools face crushing program cuts in a faceoff between the city and its teachers union.
The brother of the Yonkers mayoral aide suffered a broken nose, swelling to his face and head and bleeding on the brain after being attacked outside Sal's bar and restaurant Tuesday morning, police said.
Authorities are still waiting to get autopsy results in the death of Roy Swenson – believed to be in his 90's -- before they decide if they'll charge his daughter, Christina Swenson.
It is a real house of horrors. Police have confirmed the discovery of human remains inside -- from an elderly person who passed away years ago.
Yonkers public schools played host to a pink slip blizzard on Friday, with 700 employees losing their jobs. The district made the cuts in the face of a $42 million budget gap.
A Yonkers police officer has pleaded guilty to assault and falsifying business records.
Ronnell Jones and two others are suspects in a wild shooting last July. Two people died and four were wounded.
Major layoffs are looming in New York's fourth largest city. Yonkers is facing yet another budget crisis, with schools enduring much of the pain.
Dolan told the graduating Catholic school seniors their education prepares them for this life and the next.
The suspect in an astonishing case of sex slavery was sentenced to ten years in jail and ten years probation.
After months of waiting, planning, and making reservations, Hudson Valley Restaurant Week is finally here.
In Yonkers, firefighters rescued two men dangling off a collapsed scaffolding. It was still not known Saturday what went wrong to cause the scaffold to collapse.
Firefighters made an amazing high-wire rescue on Friday evening after two workers were trapped on the side of a 28-story senior center at 289 Nepperhan Ave. in Yonkers.
Years ago Yonkers may not have been the most desirable place to live, but Mayor Amicone says that's changed.
A father and husband is now in jail, facing an attempted rape charge, after investigators say he schemed to have sex with a 10-year-old girl.
City officials said public bath house No. 4 in Yonkers is structurally unsound and needs to be demolished, but one resident is fighting to save it from the wrecking ball.
Eating away at the school calendar, districts may be forced to cancel teacher development days or shorten one of their break periods.
Firefighters responded to the blaze at the five-story building at St. Andrews Place Thursday.
The mayor of Yonkers has vetoed a bedbug-control bill that would have required old mattresses to be wrapped in plastic bags.
According to several reports, Ballet Master Peter Martins, 64, was stopped at a DWI checkpoint in Yonkers around 2 a.m. on New Year's Day.
Two people have been arrested and four dogs have been rescued after the theft of six pit bulls and a beagle from an animal shelter.
Police say a wrong-way driver has injured an officer trying to stop him in suburban New York.
An 85-year-old Yonkers woman was arrested and faces criminal charges in the hit and run death of a Bronxville school official this week.
A deadly hit-and-run in Westchester left a beloved school administrator dead, and an 85-year-old woman is facing a felony charge for fleeing the scene.
It was supposed to give first-time homebuyers in Yonkers a chance at "the American dream," but they say when they say when they moved in, the nightmare began.
