- Feld Entertainment, the parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, announced Monday it would retire all elephants from its shows in May 2016, two years earlier than previously planned. Circus elephants were first introduced in Somers.
- Corey J. Cordell, of Ridgefield, Conn., was arrested Tuesday, Jan. 12, after crashing a car in Lewisboro with a blood alcohol content allegedly more than four times the legal limit.
- Marion and Ralph D’Aliso celebrated their 72nd wedding anniversary at The Country House in Yorktown Heights.
- Tickets that matched the winning Powerball numbers in Wednesday night's record $1.5 billion jackpot were sold in three states.
- Spectra Energy had a public information session on its pipeline project Wednesday, Jan. 13.
- Leona Liu, a seventh-grader at Robert E. Bell Middle School in Chappaqua, was named one of the top student composers in a statewide competition.
- South Salem resident Norman J. Michaels, a former White Plains insurance broker, filed a notice saying he intends to sue the State of New York for unspecified damages for his false arrest in March 2013, which his lawyer says led to the loss of his license, reputation and livelihood.
- Bedford's Rooney Mara received her second Academy Award nomination for her role in "Carol" as Best Supporting Actress.
- Terrance C. Bowdren, 43, of Cortlandt, faces charges of aggravated driving while intoxicated after he rolled his car on Old Locust Road in Cortlandt.
- Eight Ossining High School students are among 300 semifinalists nationwide in the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search competition.
- Peekskill band Joe Duraes & The Skills will open for Gin Blossoms at the Paramount Hudson Valley Theater in Peekskill on Valentine’s Day, Sunday, Feb. 14.
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