WESTCHESTER

Rare wolves raised near NYC for return to the wild

She seemed perfectly normal, so it was surprising and a little scary when Maggie Howell suddenly let loose with a long, loud, screechy yell that sounded unlike anything human.

Few clues in NY plane wreckage in which 4 died

The wreckage of a single-engine plane that killed four people in a weekend crash has yielded no immediate clues as to why the pilot declared an emergency two minutes after taking off from New York's Westchester County Airport.

After Death 'All Quiet' at Gadhafi's New Jersey Mansion
Source: myfoxphoenix

Wall Street Journal) - The death of Moammar Gadhafi has set off celebrations in Libya. But in Englewood, N.J., where his regime owned a sprawling estate known as "Thunder Rock," the response to the news Thursday was far more muted.

Pedestrian Killed While Walking On Eisenhower Expressway Charged With DUI On The Same Morning
Source: The Huffington Post

25 year old woman, charged with DUI in the morning, struck and killed by driver on Eisenhower Expressway later that same day.

Al Jazeera English news network finds home on New York cable channel
Source: NY Daily News

Al Jazeera English has finally found a place in New York City, but it's only a sublet.The news network began leasing space on Monday from WRNN, a privately-owned broadcast operation that provides news for its own channel RNN-TV and Verizon's FiOS 1 News operations.Al Jazeera hit …

School districts review tuition deals for out-of-district staff
Source: Lohud.com: Latest News

While budgets get tighter and tighter some in the local communities are looking into every dollar and how they are being spent in their communities (and rightfully so!).

Pace U. football player Danroy Henry first fatality in a police shooting in Mt. Pleasant history
Source: NY Daily News

In a shooting that has left this small town shaken, questions linger about the chain of events and the violent outcome to this incident.

Cautionary Tale: Pay Your Pet Cemetery Bills!
Source: WCBSTV.com

Their loved one was buried, but not for good. Grieving pet owners at a Westchester animal cemetery found their beloved dog's grave empty. Now a judge has sided with the cemetery. CBS 2 HD learned more on how these "grave judgments" are made all the time.

NY State Decides to Build a New Tappan Zee Bridge
Source: The New York Times

The state is in a huge financial hole, they don't know how deep or how long deficits will last, economic disaster looms for many municipalities, but the state announces that they will start to build a $16 Billion Dollar bridge and transportation hub starting in 2012.

Fish too tired to swim
Source: IOL

An Alaskan river is having its gradient reduced to ease the woes of weary salmon who jump upstream every year. The project will make a more gradual grade for the salmon to climb as they make their way from the ocean into the Chester Creek River in Westchester to breed.

World wonders can't compare to weirdness of Westchester, Putnam
Source: CNET News.com

There are some interesting oddities in Westchester, and a local journalist lists their favourites.

John Anderson discusses the Bloomberg Effect
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The Journal News of Westchester, NY is one of many news organizations losing sleep over the juicy prospect of a Bloomberg independent presidential candidacy.