Pleasantville

A man who stabbed three family members during a dispute at a southern New Jersey home is now facing aggravated assault charges, authorities said. Pleasantville police responded to the home around 5 a.m. Saturday after someone approached an officer in the department’s parking lot to report a domestic disturbance. The officer went to the house and saw Maynor Moreno-Mejia, 37,…

A terrifying tumble for the driver of a car in Westchester when it flew off a parking lot and crashed near the tracks of the Metro-North line. Lynda Baquero reports.

Commuters were shocked to see a BMW sedan fly through chainlink fence and fall about 20 feet, crashing next to the tracks of the Metro-North line. No trains were running through the Pleasantville station when the vehicle crashed just feet from the tracks, suspending service between North White Plains and Mount Kisco for almost 30 minutes, transit officials said. Police…

Two priests and staff member tested positive for Covid-19 and are urging church-goers to get tested as well, Myles Miller reports.

Authorities in Westchester County are warning that two priests and staff member at a local church who tested positive for COVID-19 may have exposed “many people” to the virus over four days of services. The alert from the Westchester County Department of Health identifies Holy Innocents Catholic Church on Bedford Road in Pleasantville as the potential exposure site. Anyone who…

Andrew Siff and Greg Cergol have team coverage of back-to-school efforts amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The father of DJ Henry, a young Black man killed by police 10 years ago, said Thursday he hopes a renewed call for justice from celebrities like Jay-Z and Rihanna will help spur prosecutors to reopen his son’s case. “We’re looking for willing hearts. People get it, conceptually, in their heads. They might even sort of feel emotionally connected...

A man accused of firing a gun into the crowded bleachers at a New Jersey high school football game last year, killing a 10-year-old boy, pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder and other charges. Alvin Wyatt, 31, of Atlantic City, did not speak during the brief hearing. He could be sentenced to life without parole if convicted. Wyatt is charged…

The community of Pleasantville is still trying to grasp with the tragedy after two young children were killed along with their mother in a murder-suicide by their father. NBC New York’s Michael George reports.

Police said that the father was under severe stress when he used a knife to take the lives of his two children and his wife, but no motive is yet known. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

Police released the identities of a family killed after the father murdered his wife and two children, before taking his own life inside their Westchester County home. Chuan-Kai Liu, known as Tom around the community, appears to have used a knife in the slayings of his wife Dorothy Liu, 42, and the couple’s two children, 7-year-old Tennyson Liu and 4-year-old…

Law enforcement sources say a father took the lives of his wife and two young children before killing himself in their Pleasantville home. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

Micah Tennant, the 10-year-old boy who was shot during a high school football playoff game at the Jersey Shore city of Pleasantville has died, his family said Wednesday.

The man accused of shooting into a crowded football game in South Jersey Friday night video chatted with an accomplice, who gave him the location of their intended target moments before shots rang out, according to court records.

The 10-year-old shot during a high school football playoff Friday night in the Jersey Shore city of Pleasantville remains in a coma, authorities said Monday.

Players and spectators ran for cover Friday night after a gunman opened fire on a crowded New Jersey high school football game.

A Democratic congressman from New York who had not backed the impeachment inquiry against Republican President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he now supports the inquiry

A New York City man who knocked on a Pace University student’s dorm room, then pushed his way in and sexually terrorized her as she desperately tried to talk her way out of it has been sentenced to state prison, authorities said.

New Jersey says it has bought its 700th home under a program to acquire and demolish houses in flood-prone areas — but nearly seven years after Superstorm Sandy, not one of those purchases has been along the ocean.