YONKERS, N.Y. - Here are some of the stories that topped the news in Yonkers this week:
- Yonkers Schools Chief Administrative Officer Joseph Brachitta has abruptly retired from his position as investigations into a $55 million deficit over the last two school budgets continue, according to LoHud.com.
- Yonkers-raised and Mount Vernon-born Earl Simmons, better known as rapper DMX, will go toe-to-toe with George Zimmerman, who was acquitted after shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, in a celebrity boxing match, according to CNN.
- Two women, ages 31 and 25, were restrained and one was struck in an armed robbery in Yonkers on Sunday night, according to police officials.
- According to a Tweet from the City of Yonkers, Gwen Dean, a mechanical engineer who quit her job to start her own puppetry business in last night's GoDaddy commercial, is a Yonkers native.
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