Yonkers News

Shots, then screeching tires in Yonkers (The Journal News)
YONKERS - Someone fired several shots near 85 Bruce Ave. last night and then apparently sped off in a car, police said today.

Trench warfare comes to Yonkers as Con Edison installs 5-mile power line (The Journal News)
YONKERS - Trench warfare is expected to break out across the city today or tomorrow, weather permitting, when Consolidated Edison Inc. begins excavation for a 5-mile transmission line.

Con Ed work in Yonkers delayed a week (The Journal News)
YONKERS - Construction of a 5-mile transmission line in the city, which was scheduled to begin early this week, has been postponed until Jan. 12, a Consolidated Edison spokesman announced today.

Video (2 min.): A.M. Report - TZB toll hike, Yonkers dig, guard slayer sentence, more (The Journal News)
Click on the video at right for a preview of stories making news today, including sentencing in a Mount Vernon Halloween slaying, Tappan Zee Bridge higher tolls, a 5-mile Con Ed dig on Yonkers streets, Westchester’s Albany wish list, the state of Orangetown, more.

Christine Lahti, 'Yonkers Joe' (Los Angeles Times)
A Q&A with the actress on kids, a new TV pilot, directing and plans for 2009. Christine Lahti stars in "Yonkers Joe" as the girlfriend of a scammy gambler (Chazz Palminteri). It opens Friday. She also appears in "Obsessed," coming this spring. She is married to director-producer Thomas Schlamme; the oldest of their children is 20 and the twins are 15. We found her in Aspen over the holidays.

Bad economy hurts Yonkers' affordable housing projects (The Journal News)
YONKERS - The nation's financial crisis has frozen two affordable housing proposals in the city and shrunken another, while a fourth narrowly avoided a loss of loan commitments.

$250,000 bail for man charged with DWI in Yonkers crash that killed brother (The Journal News)
YONKERS - A 23-year-old city man charged with drunken driving in a New Year's Day crash that killed his older brother was sent to the Westchester County jail yesterday on $250,000 bail.

Dog, cat die in Yonkers fires (The Journal News)
YONKERS - A dog and a cat may have contributed to causing separate blazes in which they died a couple miles apart from each other in the city on New Year's Eve and Day, fire officials said.

Two incidents of guns fired (Mid-Hudson News)
YONKERS – City Police in Yonkers are investigating two incidents of shots being fired over the weekend. The first incident occurred at 3:30 p.m. on January 2 when a witness saw two men standing on the corner of Ravine Avenue and Gold Street.