A sixth-grade social studies teacher from Westchester was struck and killed by a home heating oil truck in Manhattan.Sarah Foster, 27, a teacher at Louis M. Klein Middle School in the Harrison school district was hit about 5:50 a.m. Friday, Feb. 15 at East 37th St. and Third Ave. in the Murray Hill section, said the NYPD.Foster, of Manhattan, who attended private high school ...

A 34-year-old area man was arrested for rape Thursday after turning himself into Orangetown Police detectives. Felix Francois of Spring Valley was charged with third-degree rape and sexual misconduct following an investigation into an incident that took place on Feb. 3 with a 20-year-old woman, said Orangetown Police Det. Sgt. James Sullivan.The investigation began after ...

No, diners enjoying some great farm fresh food at the popular Southern Table Kitchen & Bar weren't seeing things. That really was Rupert Grint, of Harry Potter fame having dinner next to you.Grint, aka Ron Weasley, stopped in the Pleasantville hot spot on Saturday, Feb. 9, to have dinner while vacationing in the area. Owner Michael Ferrara, who managed to ...

The FBI Safe Streets Task Force and the Ramapo Police Department are offering a reward for help identifying a bank robbery suspect. Investigators say a man went into the Chase Bank in Ramapo, on Jan. 24, demanded money from the teller, and threatened to set off a box he claimed was filled with explosives, the FBI said.Investigators say the robber left with a ...

Javier Da Silva was in the country illegally when he allegedly bound and stuffed the body of 24-year-old Valerie Reyes of Westchester in a suitcase and dropped it in a wooded area of Greenwich,  according to officials with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New York.Da Silva, a citizen of Portugal, was living in Flushing, Queens when he was nabbed on Monday, Feb. ...

A vigil that was planned for Danbury Fair Mall in memory of a high school student who died after jumping from the fifth floor of the parking garage there has been canceled due to concerns of unduly influencing other teens. Hailey Nailor, 16, a Westchester native who lived in Danbury, had reportedly contemplated her decision to jump or not while on Snapchat."It's really a ...

Rockland County is holding another free vaccine clinic on Wednesday in response to a rise of the number of total confirmed cases of measles in the county.To date, there have been 135 cases of measles in the county since the outbreak began in October 2018, with another three suspected cases, according to the Rockland County Health Department.The outbreak began with visitors to and from ...

A Nanuet man was nabbed for DWI after police pulled him over for driving with a dog on the roof of his vehicle.Elvin Mejiagomez, 35, was arrested around 2:20 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, after a Rockland County Sheriff's patrol officers, observed Mejiagomez driving a vehicle in Kennedy Dells Park with his dog on the roof, creating a hazardous situation, the department said.Once stopped, ...

Expecting a huge turnout, officials responsible for casting parts for the HBO series "I Know This Much Is True," starring Mark Ruffalo, have changed the venue for auditions. Rakesh Shah with Rita Powers Casting said auditions will now be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center, 14 Civic Center Drive in ...

Greenwich and New Rochelle police have arrested a former boyfriend in the murder of Valerie Reyes, the Westchester woman who was found dead bound and stuffed inside a suitcase in a wooded Greenwich area.On Tuesday, Feb. 12, New Rochelle Police detectives, accompanied by Greenwich Police detectives, arrested Javier DeSilva, of Queens, in New York who had fraudulently used Reyes’ ATM ...