Westchester news

The future of Rye Playland is very much in play after Standard Amusements, the private company managing the park, notified Westchester County that it would be terminating their agreement — just three years into a 30-year deal.

A New York judge erased the conviction of 67-year-old Jeffrey Koonce, the father of Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Malcolm Koonce, and dismissed his indictment more than four decades after a 1981 robbery in a New York City suburb.

A half-dozen people were hurt in a wrong-way crash on the Hutchinson River Parkway in Westchester County early Monday, according to police. Authorities responding to the crash site near exit 17/Lincoln Avenue in Rye Brook around 12:10 a.m. found the driver of the wrong-way vehicle badly hurt. That person, later identified by police as 75-year-old J...

A suburban New York police department routinely violated residents’ civil rights, including making illegal arrests and using unnecessary strip and cavity searches, according to a new U.S. Department of Justice report.

The single-engine plane went down right around 7 p.m. Thursday I-684, on the border between New York’s Westchester County and Greenwich, Connecticut. One person died and another suffered critical injuries, according to police sources and officials. NBC New York’s Chris Jose reports.

One person died after a small plane crashed down onto a highway in New York’s Westchester County, shutting down the highway for an extended time, according to a police source and officials.

An athletic director at a Westchester County high school was arrested in a sextortion scheme targeting a teenager, according to prosecutors.

A suspected gunman is in custody after eluding authorities for hours following a deadly shooting at a Westchester County townhouse, according to State Police. New York State Police previously identified the suspect in the Somers shooting as 40-year-old Fernando Jimenez. They say he knew the victims, and was last known to be in the Peekskill Hollow ...

A retired NYPD detective shot and killed his wife before turning the gun on himself in a murder-suicide at their Westchester County home, according to police, with the couple’s three children also inside.

Melissa Colorado reporting on package thieves going after phones. 

There’s no sugar-coating politics, but a bakery in Peekskill has been doing just that with their election cookies. They have been making the confections with candidates’ faces for almost 30 years, but this election, the bakery says they’ve been getting blowback — and some large orders. NBC New York’s Lynda Baquero reports....

A 40-year-old man and a teenager were indicted on murder and a slew of other charges in a gruesome Bronx killing in which the victim was dismembered, put in a shopping cart and then set on fire, according to the district attorney.

A Westchester County native is making a name for himself by building the social media brands of some high-profile athletes. And you might already know his name, thanks to a viral touchdown celebration. NBC New York’s John Chandler reports.