Over 20 restaurants, five food trucks, beer vendors and music were all part of the festivities last night in Yonkers. Top honors went to Dobbs Ferry’s The Rare Bit and Peekskill’s New York Firehouse Grille. Rye Smokehouse won the people’s choice contest.

Pat Quinn, 36, says he always strived to be in law enforcement until his diagnosis with Lou Gehrig’s disease, also known as ALS, in 2013. On Thursday, a number of sergeants, lieutenants and captains, along with the Yonkers mayor and police commissioner, swore Quinn in as an honorary police officer.  The city also honored Quinn…

YONKERS – The Yonkers Police Department is investigating two recent apparent overdose incidents in the City of Yonkers and is aware of three other apparent overdoses in the Woodlawn area of the Bronx that may be connected to the same source of tainted cocaine. All five incidents resulted in the deaths of the victims. The…

Yonkers authorities say multiple deaths in the Bronx and Yonkers are being tied to tainted cocaine. An investigation is underway to find what is in the tainted cocaine and who is selling it. Officials say two middle-aged men died over the weekend in Yonkers, and three other apparent overdose incidents happened just over the border…

Yonkers African-American leaders want Firefighter Richard LaPeruta fired, and not promoted, for a racist post he made on Facebook two years ago. The debate over what should be done with fireman LaPeruta has been ongoing since his post on Facebook in 2017, which included a photo of an African-American man with his arm around an…

Michael Nolan was 23 years old when his life was cut short by a bullet in a drive-by shooting outside a Yonkers Burger King in September 2015. Nolan was a prospect for the Oakland Athletics. Garth Cole, also 23 at the time, was the getaway driver for the gunmen. He’s serving a five-year sentence for…

The city council unanimously approved the ban Tuesday night following a heated public hearing last week. The vote comes the same day state health officials approved an emergency ban on flavored e-cigarettes making New York the first state in the country to do so. Some residents are worried about lung illnesses tied to vaping while…

Officers say they discovered Jessica Reyes, 30, unconscious beside her infants – with a burnt cigar allegedly comprised of PCP and synthetic marijuana (K2). The incident occurred on Mill Street. A concerned witness flagged down police officers and told them about the unconscious woman. When officers tried to wake up Reyes, she allegedly said, “Don’t…

This is the 27th year the city is holding the free event for people of all ages, offering a variety of food options and performances. Organizers say it’s the biggest annual event in Westchester

A local Vietnam veteran was honored 50 years after his death. The Yonkers native lost his life half a century ago when his plane was shot down during the Vietnam War. More than 70 motorcyclists of the national motorcycle club “Nam Knights of America” honored the Air Force major by riding from New Jersey to…