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Pace University Freshman To Star On CBS Show 'Blue Bloods' Pace University Freshman To Star On CBS Show 'Blue Bloods'
Pace University Freshman To Star On CBS Show 'Blue Bloods' A 17-year-old from Northern Westchester will guest star on an episode of CBS-TV's "Blue Bloods." Igby Rigney of Ossining, a freshman at Pace University, will star as Evan Scott on the Risk Management episode airing Friday, April 13 at 10 p.m. The teen has also appeared on TV shows and commercials including Popeye’s Chicken, Google, Huntington Learning Centers and two other dramas: "Billions" (Showtime), and "Orange is the New Black" (Netflix).  Live performances in Westchester include "Our Town" with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and "G…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
YouTube Shooter Claimed Site Discriminated Against Her YouTube Shooter Claimed Site Discriminated Against Her
YouTube Shooter Claimed Site Discriminated Against Her UPDATE: The armed woman who police said killed herself after critically wounding her boyfriend and injuring two other people at YouTube headquarters in northern California on Tuesday previously complained that the site had discriminated against her. "I'm being discriminated and filtered on YouTube and I'm not the only one," Nasim Aghdam, 39, said in several videos she'd posted. She also had a website with several complaints about YouTube -- including that it was age-restricting her videos and limiting the number of views they received. "Videos of targeted users are filtered …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
Hiring: Google To Add Thousands Of Employees Throughout Country Hiring: Google To Add Thousands Of Employees Throughout Country
Hiring: Google To Add Thousands Of Employees Throughout Country Google is about to start a hiring spree. The tech giant said on an earnings call last week that it's planning to add thousands of new employees throughout the nation in either expanded or new offices. There's been increased attention on tech company hiring in the United States, and political pressure to invest and create jobs locally," according to CNN Money.

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by Daily Voice
Neighbors
Westchester 16-Year-Old Is Changing Perceptions About Girls Westchester 16-Year-Old Is Changing Perceptions About Girls
Westchester 16-Year-Old Is Changing Perceptions About Girls Jothi Ramaswamy was having dinner on a school night, halfway through the 2015 school year when a conversation with her brother left her even hungrier. Her brother, Akshay, happened to mention that out of the 33 students in his C++ class—a computer science language—none were girls. Ramaswamy, a Yorktown resident, had been interested in computer science since sixth grade, but hearing something like that flustered her. She decided to research why but discovered the void wasn’t just present in his class, it was the entire Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) field. After doi…

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by James Miranda