08/11/09 The White Plains Briefing (Updated)

Comprehensive News Feed for White Plains, NY.

• Hitachi Joins Local-Agency Trend With Creative Shift to Gotham
  posted on August 12, 2009 08:23:00 am
  ... such as teleconferencing and are opting to hire ad agencies right in their backyard. Earlier this summer, White Plains, N.Y.-based Heineken USA conducted a creative agency review and stated that shops outside the New York-area need not apply. ...
• Tomato corruption probe nets Kraft buyer 2 years
  posted on August 12, 2009 08:49:15 am
  ... for accepting bribes from a Central California supplier of the company's tomato products. Robert L. Watson of White Plains, N.Y., is the first defendant sentenced in the widespread corruption case involving Lemoore-based SK Foods. He pleaded guilty ...
• Post a Comment
  posted on August 12, 2009 01:02:09 am
  ... for 16 years running, has been tapped to lead the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. David Kappos, a 48-year-old White Plains resident, will begin a new job this week as the undersecretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the ...
• Spano got tickets to Yankees game as gift
  posted on August 11, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  WHITE PLAINS - It pays to have friends with connections. That's how Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano landed choice seats for Sunday's sold-out Yankees-Red Sox game at the famed Bronx ballpark.
• Mt. Vernon council candidates kept off ballot
  posted on August 11, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... ballot for the September primary, following a state Supreme Court ruling yesterday. Justice William Giacomo in White Plains agreed with the county Board of Elections that the petition violated election law by failing to note that one of them was ...
• Digital conversion hasn't been successful
  posted on August 11, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  I agree with B.J. Innamorato in White Plains . Just what is the FCC going to do about this mess it created? The only channel I get is NBC Channel 4. As far as I'm concerned, we better go back to the way we were.
• New Rochelle city employee accused of selling Ecstasy
  posted on August 11, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... and he was arrested.' Martinez was arraigned later that day and released on $2,500 bail. He is due Sept. 16 in White Plains City Court. New Rochelle City Manager Charles Strome III confirmed that an employee in the city's technology department had ...
• Residents react to immigration detention reform
  posted on August 11, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... infractions. Being in the U.S. illegally is a civil offense. Robin Bikkal, an immigration attorney in White Plains and president of the service agency El Centro Hispano in White Plains, criticized the current system, in which detainees who are in ...
• Burbs: Earnings more than double at AboveNet
  posted on August 11, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  Quarterly profits more than doubled at AboveNet Inc., a White Plains-based telecommunications company that benefited from strong demand from corporate customers for its high-speed data links.
• 2 local dealers censured over 'clunkers' ads
  posted on August 11, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... to explain. 'It is so complicated,' he said. 'It has become extremely confusing.'' Smith Cairns Ford Inc. of White Plains received a letter from Cuomo's office that said the dealership's ads didn't explain how customers could qualify for the ...
• Finally, a plan
  posted on August 11, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... are black, and fewer than 7 percent are Hispanic - that means they won't be built in cities like Yonkers, White Plains, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle or Peekskill. The county has agreed to spend $51.6 million to build the housing - $21.6 million the ...
• NY Wrong-Way Crash Survivor Leaves Hospital
  posted on August 11, 2009 09:32:06 pm
  Share + Aug 11, 2009 10:31 am US/Eastern WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. 1 of 1 Firefighters look at the shell of the minivan that had burst into flames after it collided head-on with an SUV on the Taconic State Parkway on July 26, 2009.
• Rogers Corporation to Present at CJS Securities, Inc. Ninth Annual a oeNew Ideasa Summer Conference
  posted on August 11, 2009 09:18:29 pm
  Rogers Corporation will be presenting at the Ninth Annual CJS Securities "New Ideas" Summer Conference, on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 in White Plains, NY.
• Columbus McKinnon to Present at the CJS Securities New Ideas Small-Cap Investor Conference
  posted on August 11, 2009 07:42:49 pm
  ... will be presenting at the CJS Securities, Inc. 9th Annual Summer "New Ideas" Small-Cap Investor Conference in White Plains, NY on August 18, 2009. The presentation slides will be available on the day of the presentation at the Company's web site at ...
• Cuomo Junks Dealers' 'clunker' Ads
  posted on August 11, 2009 07:17:20 pm
  ... city dealerships Plaza Hyundai, City World Toyota and City World Hyundai. In Westchester, Smith Cairns Ford in White Plains and Central Avenue Chrysler Jeep Dodge in Yonkers got letters. According to Cuomo's office, all 40 dealers ran ads that did ...
• Brooklyn Paramount Lives. Eagles, Orbison, Tucker, Winter Turn Back Time
  posted on August 11, 2009 05:42:57 pm
  ... is a pleasure to see a paper that reports the news instead of making the news. -- William Waterman, Jr. former White Plains Councilman - The Councilman in Exile Brooklyn Paramount Lives. Eagles, Orbison, Tucker, Winter Turn Back Time Posted on ...
• ITT's Enhanced Software Inspects Entire Document Collections for Sensitive Information
  posted on August 11, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... that create more livable environments, provide protection and safety and connect our world. Headquartered in White Plains, N.Y., the company generated 2008 sales of $11.7 billion. www.itt.com ### Media Contact: ITT Advanced ...
• County north of NYC to market housing to nonwhites
  posted on August 11, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  by Jim Fitzgerald Associated Press Writer WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - The suburban county just north of New York City agreed Monday to create hundreds of affordable homes in heavily white communities and encourage nonwhites to move in. The federal ...
• White Plains 12-year-old draws an ace
  posted on August 11, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... Westchester Hills and quickly disappear into the hole. The startled 12-year-old wasn't sure how to react. A White Plains resident who has been playing for six years, he experienced a hole-in-one moment some golfers wait a lifetime for during a ...
• NY wrongway crash survivor, 5, leaves hospital
  posted on August 11, 2009 11:09:00 am
  NY wrong-way crash survivor, 5, leaves hospital Eds: APNewsNow. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. The 5-year-old boy who survived the wrong-way crash that killed eight people on a New York highway has left the hospital.