02/29/12 The Raw Mount Vernon News Feed

• Manhunt after man is shot in Mount Vernon _{2012-02-28, 02:37 pm}
  Police surround a red BMW during a manhunt on West Sidney Avenue in Mount Vernon Tuesday.
• 1st Annual Ice Skating Fundraiser _{2012-02-28, 12:52 pm}
  The 1st Annual Ice Skating Fundraiser will be held on Sunday, March 4th at The Ice Hutch located at 655 Garden Avenue in Mt Vernon, NY from 5:00pm-7:00pm. There will be DJ's playing the best music & Special Guest Celebrities in the building.
• I-95 Bridge Work Could Affect Your Morning Commute in Harrison _{2012-02-27, 06:00 pm}
  ... Authority. The $3.2 million project, scheduled to be completed by the fall of 2013, was contracted out to Mount Vernon-based Defoe Corporation in December. It includes reconstruction work on four bridges, two of which begin Thursday, and the other ...
• Greenburgh Police Respond to Fight at Friday's _{2012-02-28, 12:05 am}
  ... nd Sleepy's. The suspect ran and jumped over a fence before being caught and hit with a stun gun. A 23-year-old Mount Vernon man was charged with public lewdness and resisting arrest.
• Harold Dawson Sr. _{2012-02-27, 10:04 pm}
  Harold Dawson Sr., 81, a native of Lobeco, died Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, at New Rochelle Hospital in New Rochelle, N.Y. Arrangements by Camelot Funeral Home of Mt. Vernon, N.Y.
• White Plains Cops: Pizzeria Owner Charged With Violations _{2012-02-27, 09:31 pm}
  ... criminal possession of a forged instrument, a misdemeanor. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- White Plains police say a Mount Vernon man swindled $3,376.68 from his employers at J. Crew via false... WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- White Plains police stopped a man ...
• I-95 Bridge Work Could Affect Your Morning Commute in Mamaroneck _{2012-02-27, 06:00 pm}
  ... Authority. The $3.2 million project, scheduled to be completed by the fall of 2013, was contracted out to Mount Vernon-based Defoe Corporation in December. It includes reconstruction work on four bridges, two of which begin Thursday, and the other ...
• 10 things to watch at Section 1 boys tournament _{2012-02-27, 02:30 am}
  Mount Vernon's Isaiah Cousins dribbles the ball down the court pass New Rochelle's Terrence Holden in game action at Mount Vernon High School Feb.
• I-95 Bridge Work Could Affect Your Morning Commute in Rye_{2012-02-27, 03:50 pm}
  ... Authority. The $3.2 million project, scheduled to be completed by the fall of 2013, was contracted out to Mount Vernon-based Defoe Corporation in December. It includes reconstruction work on four bridges, two of which begin Thursday, and the other ...
• 5 Things for the Week Ahead: Budgets, Lectures and Workshops _{2012-02-27, 02:39 pm}
  ... Place in Pelham. Call the district at 845-738-3434 for more information. 2.) The historic St. Paul's Church in Mount Vernon is hosting "St. Paul's and the Civil War" at 7 p.m. Wednesday . The church, which is a National Historic Site, is located at ...
• Ruben Diaz Sr. Blasts Congressional Redistricting Efforts: 'The Bronx Is Not a Colony' _{2012-02-27, 11:55 am}
  ... Manhattan's demographics changing, some lawmakers have proposed uniting Mr. Rangel's district in Harlem with Mount Vernon via the Bronx to give him a seat with an African American majority along the lines of a proposal made by the NAACP . The Bronx ...
• Troopers charge 11 with drunken or drugged driving in Westchester, Rockland, Putnam _{2012-02-27, 07:41 am}
  ... and investigations in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, state police said. Germaine Tolliver, 32, of Mount Vernon was charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated driving while intoxicated, felonies, about 3:50 a.m. Sunday on the ...
• To Be Black at Stuyvesant High _{2012-02-26, 12:50 am}
  ... lives in the Wakefield section of the Bronx, attended sixth and seventh grades in Jamaica, and eighth grade in Mount Vernon, a Westchester County suburb. Her father, Donovan Miller, a director of accounting at Bronx Community College, recalled ...
• Dolores Ann Davis _{2012-02-25, 11:44 am}
  Dolores Ann Davis, 62, of Vernonview Drive, Mount Vernon, passed away Friday, Feb.
• Section 1 hockey: Motivated Pelham blanks John Jay in semis _{2012-02-25, 03:59 am}
  From right, Pelham's Danny Shea jumps into the arms of teammate Mark Hernandez after Shea scored a first period goal against John Jay during Friday's playoff game at the Ice Hutch in Mount Vernon.
• Former NY Gov. Spitzer to raise money for Inslee _{2012-02-24, 11:33 pm}
  ... a history of drugs and assault. A fugitive was shot dead by U.S. marshals after he opened fire at them in a Mount Vernon neighborhood, officials said. A local woman is under arrest after she allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill her estranged ...
• Tonite, Tonite _{2012-02-24, 10:46 pm}
  The Mello-Kings were one-hit wonders in the doo wop world, fondly remembered for the their lone national hit, "Tonite, Tonite." They were an all-white vocal group from Mt.
• Pelham Manor Police Blotter: Fatal Hit and Run Accident, DWAI Arrest, CVS Theft _{2012-02-24, 04:54 pm}
  ... been cleared out. Prior to the incident, the store manager received a phone call from the manager at a CVS in Mount Vernon warning him that two men that had come into his store earlier in the day and stole more than $2,000 worth of merchandise. The ...
• Scarsdale's Rocco DeMarco, 84, Honored Saturday _{2012-02-24, 04:40 pm}
  The son of Louis and Carmella DeMarco, he was born Aug. 21, 1927 in Hartford, Conn.
• in Area Churches _{2012-02-24, 02:21 pm}
  A community breakfast buffet at Christ United Methodist Church in Newcomerstown, will be from 7 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb.