BRP to be closed N/B today in Eastchester/Scarsdale

The northbound Bronx River Parkway will be closed between Harney Road, Exit 10, in Eastchester and Crane Road, Exit 12, in Scarsdale from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, Westchester County announced. The closure will allow work related to drilling of test...   read entire article»

Cops: Woman tried to bring gun into courthouse

WHITE PLAINS -- A Greenburgh woman was arrested after she tried entering the Westchester County courthouse with a handgun Friday afternoon, police said. Wai K. Gambardella, 36, of 433 W. Hartsdale, who carried a .22-caliber semiautomatic pistol wr...   read entire article»

Owner of Yonkers home says lawyer put him in bankruptcy without permission

When the Yonkers home where his parents lived was threatened with foreclosure, Domingo Hernandez went to White Plains lawyer Christopher Cabanillas to fight the proceedings. Cabanillas told him that his firm had a "special program" designed to hol...   read entire article»

Ecuadorean cleric admits groping St. Vito's parishioner

An Ecuadorean priest who had been visiting a Mamaroneck church pleaded guilty Friday to a charge that he groped a parishioner who had sought marriage counseling from him in 2004. The Rev. Richard Ordonez, a 38-year-old member of the Salesians orde...   read entire article»

Undersized Nanuet line plays with big heart

Brendan Siegriest desperately tried to pack on a few pounds over the last three years. Pasta, protein shakes, fast food -- the Nanuet senior tried everything. His metabolism, though, kept getting in the way. Weight has been an issue for Siegriest ...   read entire article»

Jury convicts Dutchess man in dad's death

PEEKSKILL -- A six-member jury Friday convicted a Dutchess County man of misdemeanor reckless endangerment in the death last year of his 85-year-old father, whom he had left in a hot car on a July day while he went to work as a bus driver. A Peeks...   read entire article»

Ringleader pleads guilty in break-ins

The leader of a home-invasion ring that brutalized a Harrision family pleaded guilty Friday on the promise he'll get 10 years in state prison, authorities said. New Rochelle resident Garabet "Gary" Pilavdjian, 38, who had been working as a contrac...   read entire article»

Weiner sends Briarcliff into state final

DRYDEN -- Minutes after her team's latest step through the state playoffs, Katie Weiner held no illusions. The senior forward has scored goals on skill, but sometimes, she said, it's more about serendipity than serving a bending ball past an outst...   read entire article»

Senate health bill would change state's Medicaid reimbursement

WASHINGTON -- How New York state would fare under proposed health care reform remains an open question, but there's no doubt that state government and, to some extent, county governments would share in the cost of expanding health coverage to more...   read entire article»

Rockland Scholar-Athlete: North Rockland's Olga Krestyaninova

North Rockland senior swimmer Olga Krestyaninova has one motto -- work hard. This week's Journal News Rockland Scholar-Athlete of the Week took that work ethic to heart even before she came to the United States from Kazakhstan, her early-childhood...   read entire article»