Westchester County

A school in Rye Brook has been closed over safety violations. Lynda Baquero reports.

A chlorine accident at the YMCA sickened a number of people. Marc Santia reports.

More than a dozen people were taken to hospitals with respiratory symptoms and “skin exposure injuries” Monday after being exposed to a “vapor cloud” caused by a hazardous mixture of chemicals at a Westchester County YMCA, officials say. A report of the incident, which officials say appears to be “accidental and not criminal in nature,” at the YMCA on New…

A 36-year-old Westchester County man pleaded guilty Tuesday to 14 felony charges, including attempted murder as a hate crime, for repeatedly stabbing a 17-year-old Black girl he didn’t know who happened to be visiting family in the apartment complex where the defendant lived last year, officials say. Robert McCallion faces up to 25 years in state prison at sentencing in…

Unlike another memorial just beside it dedicated to the victims from Westchester County who died on 9/11, a new memorial was unveiled Friday for those who have died in the 20 years since the attacks from related illnesses, and will continue to add names in the future. NBC New York’s Lynda Baquero reports.

Thursday marked the first day of school for Westchester County’s largest school district. Jessica Cunnington reports.

Thousands of miles away from the unfolding action in Kabul, Sofia Bator spent much of last week in the dark, waiting for answers she wasn’t should would come. Bator’s focus zeroed in on helping her 24-year-old cousin, Freshta Nazari, escape Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul. The Ossining woman had not heard from her cousin in Afghanistan since...

The situation in Afghanistan hits close to home for one Westchester family who has been desperate to hear from family in the country. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

Flooded garages and churches have been left behind after Henri moved out of New York. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

Westchester County authorities have revived a cold case and are asking the public’s help in identifying a man who was found shot to death in a wooden chest off the side of a busy parkway 43 years ago. John Doe was discovered on April 23, 1978 at 10:15 a.m. by a driver traveling north on the Saw Mill River Parkway…

A former Mount Vernon police officer has admitted assaulting a handcuffed and shackled man — a body-slamming caught on hospital surveillance video

Many longtime friends and adversaries alike for Gov. Cuomo have piled on, calling for him to resign in the wake of the attorney general’s report that corroborated claims of sexual harassment from nearly a dozen women. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff, Melissa Russo and Chris Glorioso have team coverage.

Both the Manhattan and Westchester County district attorneys are launching inquiries into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s conduct following the bombshell Attorney General report that dropped Tuesday and found that the political scion sexually harassed 11 women. The Westchester County District Attorney’s Office has sent a letter to the New York Attorney General requesting materials from the independent investigation into Gov....

NY State Attorney General says that her office’s investigation found that Governor Cuomo sexually harassed women who worked for him.

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,…

A $30 million swimming pool that can fit up to 3,500 people will open on Saturday at the Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park in Westchester County. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday announced the upcoming opening of the nearly 328-by-128-foot pool, touting that the massive investment in the state park system’s largest pool will help boost tourism and help local small…

Westchester residents react to COVID-19 restrictions lifting. Marc Santia reports.

for the first time in its 145-year history, the storied Westminster dog show is trading the buzz of the Big Apple for the airy grounds of a suburban riverfront estate, one of many changes prompted by pandemic precautions

The Westminster Dog Show is returning this weekend to Lyndhurst Mansion in Westchester County. Lynda Baquero reports.

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.