Mount Vernon

Investigators search for the cause of a fire that occurred in Westchester on Tuesday morning. Lynda Baquero reports.

Nine bus passengers were hurt when a 25-year-old woman who allegedly smelled of alcohol and had edibles in her car caused a chain-reaction crash in Westchester County’s Mount Vernon early Monday, officials said. The woman was driving a Honda Accord CRV when she collided with a black Nissan Rogue, which then careened into a Bee-Line city bus near East...

Detectives now know her name — and are releasing it publicly. But they still don’t have an answer to their most important question: What happened to Alexandra?

Police are investigating the death of a 24-year-old woman whose body was found in the front vestibule of a multi-family home in Mount Vernon, officials said Wednesday.

Police are investigating the death of a 24-year-old woman whose body was found in the front vestibule of a multi-family home in Mount Vernon, officials said Wednesday. Cops responding to a call about an unresponsive woman at the Summit Avenue home around 7 a.m. a day earlier found her dead at the scene. No information was shared regarding possible injuries…

In Westchester County, there’s a health center that’s become a one-stop shop for a community in need, providing medical care, transportation, and healthy food. This week on Positively Black, News 4’s Marc Santia takes a visit to Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center.

Money troubles in Mount Vernon have caught the attention of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who on Friday directed a number of state agencies to step in and assist with garbage collection following the mayor’s state of emergency declaration. Mount Vernon’s mayor declared a state of emergency to get help with garbage collection after its fleet of trucks were sidelined due...

Mount Vernon declares state of emergency to fix city vehicles, holding comptroller responsible. Adam Harding reports.

Mount Vernon Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard says the city’s entire fleet of garbage trucks are off the street, along with 80% of the police department’s fleet after the comptroller failed to pay the city’s bills.
NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

A New York town has sidelined its entire fleet of police, fire and garbage vehicles after declaring a state of emergency over what the mayor called a lack of critical maintenance — leaving the blame at the foot of another city official who allegedly failed to pay $500,000 in invoices for city vehicles.

A Mount Vernon man has been arraigned on a first-degree manslaughter charge in a deadly Sleepy Hollow shooting last week, prosecutors said Thursday. Emmanuel Valentin Perez, 18, was arrested Tuesday in the shooting death of 32-year-old Manuel Salazar, who was gunned down in Margotta Courts Park a day earlier. Another man also was wounded. Salazar was taken to a hospital,…

Two teenagers were walking home from a party when they were caught in gunfire. NBC New York’s Lynda Baquero reports.

A 20-year-old Bronx man has been indicted on manslaughter charges in a high-speed crash that killed three young people on the Cross County Parkway last fall, the Westchester County district attorney’s office said Wednesday. Yordany Bautista Hernandez was driving 119 miles an hour in a 50 mile-an-hour zone on the eastbound Cross County Parkway in Mount Vernon Sept. 25 when…

Customers said that one second, a Jeep was at the gas station, and the next, it was in the Hutchinson River, after having plowed through a fence. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

Several law enforcement sources confirmed a woman died after a Jeep crashed into the Hutchinson River Friday morning. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

A woman died after being pulled from a submerged Jeep that plunged into the Hutchinson River after the driver lost control, smashed through a fence and flew off an embankment in Westchester County Friday, multiple law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation told News 4. It didn’t appear there was anyone else in the vehicle at the time…

A 54-year-old Mount Vernon woman who is already accused of trying to murder an ex-intimate partner now faces assault, menacing and other charges stemming from a second incident earlier this year involving that same person, the Westchester County district attorney’s office said Thursday. Shaun Rhames was indicted June 1 on those counts as well as unlawful imprisonment and criminal possession…

A pair of Westchester County police officers are being praised after opting to put compassion before handcuffs, as they bought a pair of socks for a homeless man who was caught trying to steal them.

Rather than arresting a suspected shoplifter, a pair of police officers in Mount Vernon bough him the socks he was trying to take. Gus Rosendale reports.

A New York district attorney has asked federal authorities to investigate illegal strip searches and other civil rights violations involving the Mount Vernon Police Department