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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Here's a look at last week's top stories around Southern Westchester County.
- A 61-year-old contractor working at the Westchester County Airport was electrocuted and died Thursday afternoon.
- More than two dozen suspects were targeted for heroin and opiate-related offenses following Yonkers Police Department's Heroin Enforcement and Assistance Response Team’s first major bust.
- Three Westchester restaurants -- Michael’s Tavern (Pleasantville), Oliver's (Katonah) and McArthur's American Grille (Pleasantville) -- closed Friday.
- Three Port Chester men were arraigned Wednesday in a series of separate, violent robberies: One resulted in the death of a 32-year-old last fall.
- Scenes from several popular television series have been filmed in locations around Westchester County last week.
- A moose was spotted wandering through a Millwood man's yard early Thursday morning.
- John Orozco, who trained at World Cup Gymnastics in Chappaqua for 10 years and who just made the U.S. men's Olympic team, will now be taking his training to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.
- A private detective who is working on the missing person case involving Edgemont resident Lauren Spierer said he is close to finally solving the years-old mystery, according to multiple reports.
- The Harrison Police Department arrested six people Monday, including four alleged drug dealers from the Bronx, after the recent overdose deaths of two local residents, ages 26 and 29.
- Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino has announced the completion of a $250 million upgrade to the New Rochelle Water Resource Recovery Facility, the largest public works project in the county’s history which was on time and under budget.
- Jason Alexander, a highly successful career television actor/director from Dobbs Ferry, was sentenced Tuesday on child pornography charges.
- Johuan Ramos, who was captured Monday after allegedly abducting a woman in the Bronx at gunpoint and fleeing the scene of a crash on Interstate 87, has been charged with kidnapping and gun possession, state police said.
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