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Hit-Run Crash: Suspect Nabbed After Police Cruiser Struck On I-684 Hit-Run Crash: Suspect Nabbed After Police Cruiser Struck On I-684
Hit-Run Crash: Suspect Nabbed After Police Cruiser Struck On I-684 A New York State Police vehicle was damaged by a hit-and-run driver while the trooper was stopped on I-684 helping another motorist in Northern Westchester. The incident took place in Bedford around 6 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26. Trooper AJ Hicks said the crash occurred while the trooper was stopped in the southbound lane of I-684 assisting another driver when a gold Lexus SUV struck the passenger side of the police cruiser. The driver, identified as Thomas Haber, age 81, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, then fled the area, Hicks said. The trooper was not injured in the crash, he added. Haber w…

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by Kathy Reakes
News
Area Doctor One Of Two Charged With Narcotics Distribution Area Doctor One Of Two Charged With Narcotics Distribution
Area Doctor One Of Two Charged With Narcotics Distribution A Connecticut doctor and her alleged co-conspirator are facing charges for distributing oxycodone while serving as a resident at Yale-New Haven Health. Jennifer Farrell, 37, of New Haven, who was a medical resident in the Emergency Department between July 2017 and June this year, allegedly “wrote numerous prescriptions for oxycodone for non-legitimate medical purposes outside the scope of her professional practice in the name of at least five individuals,” including Jimiesha McKoy, who is also wanted by the FBI. U.S. Attorney for Connecticut John Durham said that Farrell did not see McKoy o…

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by Zak Failla
Business
Wegmans Edges Close To 100 Stores With New Area Location Coming Wegmans Edges Close To 100 Stores With New Area Location Coming
Wegmans Edges Close To 100 Stores With New Area Location Coming Wegmans Food Markets, which will soon be unveiling a location in Westchester, is now just two stores from having 100. That means the family-owned supermarket chain based in Rochester, will open its 100th store in 2019. Wegmans has plans for 14 other new stores in the next two years, including one along Westchester Avenue in Harrison near three major highways -- I-684, I-287 and I-95 -- as reported here by Daily Voice.  Wegmans signed a purchase agreement in December 2016 with Normandy Real Estate Partners for a 125,000-square-foot grocery in Harrison, where site work has begun. Wegman's 1…

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by Jon Craig