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- The man who died from an apparent suicide following an armed standoff with the police Monday has been identified as George Bateman, a 60-year-old resident of Nichols Road, which is off Route 121 near North Salem.
- Jeffrey Whalen, the Yorktown teacher suspected of sharing an obscene video of a child, died last Saturday in what authorities believe was a hiking accident.
- The Tappan Zee Bridge turned 60 Tuesday, but most residents were celebrating the features the $4 billion replacement bridge will deliver.
- A bill from a state senator to take Republican presidential nominee frontrunner Donald Trump's name off Donald J. Trump State Park in Yorktown and Putnam Valley has drawn reaction from the towns' lawmakers.
- Scarsdale resident Zachary L. Tokson, 23, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide following a wrong-way accident on Interstate 684 in Bedford early Sunday morning in which a Mount Kisco woman was killed.
- Lillian Vernon, founder of the first woman-owned company ever listed on the American Stock Exchange, died Monday in Manhattan.
- The Westchester County Board of Legislators narrowly approved County Executive Rob Astorino's annual budget Monday.
- Detecting a new planet has helped Byram Hills High School senior Dominick Rowan earn top individual honors in the regional finals of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, one of the nation's most prestigious science competitions for high school students.
- Cortlandt Manor resident Brianna C. Kelly, 25, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of driving while intoxicated following her involvement in a one-car crash.
- The New Castle Planning Board voted to approve the Chappaqua Crossing retail project Wednesday.
- The motorcyclist who was killed in the Route 9A crash in Hawthorne last Saturday has been identified as Verplanck resident Sean Peterson.
- The police are searching for a man who attempted to lure an 8-year-old into his car last Saturday in Peekskill.
- Briarcliff firefighters had to get aid from multiple departments to quell a fire that destroyed a community pavilion last Saturday.
- A serious multi-vehicle accident occurred on Upper Shad Road in Pound Ridge Wednesday.
- Pleasantville High School's Camerata sang Christmas carols at the Pleasantville Chamber of Commerce annual holiday event last Saturday.
- New York Knicks players were on hand at Target in Mount Kisco Monday to shop on behalf of children in need.
- Ossining police officers took part in the filming of the television show "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" Tuesday night.
- The Lewisboro Land Trust recently received the Westchester County's Soil & Water Achievement Award for the Trust's Leon Levy Preserve Native Plant Garden.
- Police are investigating a bank robbery that occurred at a Chase Bank in Thornwood Friday afternoon.
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