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COVID-19: Iona College Announces Plans To Begin, End Fall Semester Early COVID-19: Iona College Announces Plans To Begin, End Fall Semester Early
Covid-19: Iona College Announces Plans To Begin, End Fall Semester Early Iona College in New Rochelle announced plans to begin its fall semester weeks early, on Monday, Aug. 10, while eyeing an end-date of Monday, Nov. 23, with all courses being offered in a “hybrid format" amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Under the plan students will have the option to take any course, or portions of courses, online or in-person, with the exception of courses that have been pre-designated as distance learning classes. “We have consulted with public health experts and colleague institutions as well as attending to CDC and New York State guidelines at every step al…

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by Zak Failla
News
Hudson Valley Man Sentenced For Murder Of 7-Year-Old Daughter Hudson Valley Man Sentenced For Murder Of 7-Year-Old Daughter
Hudson Valley Man Sentenced For Murder Of 7-Year-Old Daughter The Westchester father found guilty of murdering his 7-year-old daughter may spend the rest of his life in prison. Neil White, 50, was sentenced to a term of 25 years to life in prison following his sentencing in Westchester County Court on Thursday, Oct. 3. White, who was convicted of second-degree murder for the 2017 murder, reportedly sought to adjourn his trial, but was denied by the judge. Holding her daughter’s favorite rag doll, Michelle Hord, Gabrielle's mother, described the two years since her child’s murder as “a razor-blade cut of trauma, memory, pain, confusion, betrayal and …

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by Zak Failla
News
Man Convicted Of Murder In Suffocation Death Of Daughter In Hudson Valley Man Convicted Of Murder In Suffocation Death Of Daughter In Hudson Valley
Man Convicted Of Murder In Suffocation Death Of Daughter In Hudson Valley A father has been found guilty of murdering his 7-year-old daughter in Westchester. The jury delivered its guilty verdict second-degree murder on Wednesday, July 3 after the 47-year-old was charged in June 2017 for his role in the death of his daughter Gabrielle, who was a student at Ward Elementary School in New Rochelle. White’s trial has been ongoing for several weeks and his defense team called no witnesses before resting its case. White never appeared on the witness stand, but Gabrielle’s mother offered her recounting of the day her daughter died. At approximately 3:20 p.m. on June 6,…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
Details Emerge After Man, Woman Killed When SUV Crashes Into Long Island Sound In Westchester Details Emerge After Man, Woman Killed When SUV Crashes Into Long Island Sound In Westchester
Details Emerge After Man, Woman Killed When SUV Crashes Into Long Island Sound In Westchester New details have been released after two people were killed when an SUV drove from the parking lot, through a metal railing and into the Long Island Sound in Westchester. Just before 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 19, New Rochelle Police received a call that a vehicle had crashed through the railing and entered the water at Hudson Park at Echo Bay in New Rochelle. New Rochelle Police divers responded and pulled the driver from the submerged vehicle. The driver was unconscious and unresponsive and was treated by paramedics and New Rochelle Fire Department personnel at the scene, before being trans…

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by Joe Lombardi
Lifestyle
Clarkstown North HS Grad's Fight With Flu Has Changed Life Forever Clarkstown North HS Grad's Fight With Flu Has Changed Life Forever
Clarkstown North HS Grad's Fight With Flu Has Changed Life Forever Who knew that a bout of the flu could change a life so drastically? But that's what happened to Will McCue, 19, who is a probationary firefighter with the New City Fire Department. McCue has been fighting for his life in the intensive care unit at Montefiore Hospital since contracting the flu earlier this year.  It's been a rough go and has changed how he will live his life forever following complications that caused pneumonia, and that further caused issues with sepsis throughout his body, the department said in a post on Facebook. As his condition worsened, doctors were forced to take a…

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by Kathy Reakes
Neighbors
Community Rallies Behind Rockland Teen Firefighter Hospitalized With Flu Community Rallies Behind Rockland Teen Firefighter Hospitalized With Flu
Community Rallies Behind Rockland Teen Firefighter Hospitalized With Flu The community is coming together in support of a teenage New City Fire Department volunteer who has fallen critically ill after contracting the flu. A GoFundMe fundraising campaign was started by Clarkstown High School North football coach Joseph Trongone on behalf of 19-year-old Clarkstown resident Willy McCue, who contracted the flu and has since been hospitalized with complications. A graduate of Clarkstown High School North and current college student, McCue has been transferred to the intensive care unit at Montefiore Hospital. He is currently being isolated to prevent any further comp…

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by Zak Failla