08/20/09 The White Plains Briefing

Comprehensive News Feed for White Plains, NY.

• Swiss banker, lawyer charged with helping clients evade US taxes in new UBS-related indictment
  posted on August 21, 2009 03:10:30 am
  ... from the widening U.S. tax evasion investigation. Two other clients are named only by initials: J.E., from White Plains, N.Y., and E.G. of Boca Raton, Fla. It was Chernick who was told by Schumacher and Rickenbach that a $45,000 bribe had been paid ...
• Garber: U.S. taking a more unified approach
  posted on August 21, 2009 01:26:22 am
  ... at his Southampton home, Patrick McEnroe is driving himself to the United States Tennis Association offices in White Plains, N.Y. After several scheduled meetings, it's into the city for a haircut and then dinner with Jim Courier, the two noshing on ...
• 3 debt collectors face abuse suit
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  The debt collection business is growing, and so is abuse, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said at his regional office in White Plains yesterday.
• Judge tosses out attempted murder, weapon charges against Peekskill man
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... shooting in Peekskill last year. Leon Clement, who lives in Peekskill, was on trial in state Supreme Court in White Plains on attempted murder and weapon possession charges in the May 14, 2008, shooting of a 31-year-old Georgia man. Justice Lester ...
• Workshop to focus on cancer diagnoses
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  WHITE PLAINS: A workshop titled 'Cancer, What You Need to Know' will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sept.
• Challenge, networking event raises money
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  WHITE PLAINS: The 3rd annual BNI Golf & Tennis Challenge and Networking Event was recently held at Elmwood Country Club.
• Taste of Westchester planned for Oct. 28
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  WHITE PLAINS: Cerebral Palsy of Westchester will hold A Taste of Westchester at the Westchester Renaissance Hotel at 6:30 p.m. Oct.
• Conservatory awarded grant for scholarships
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  WHITE PLAINS: The Music Conservatory of Westchester has been awarded an $18,000 grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.
• Coleman School plans annual walkathon
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  WHITE PLAINS: The John A. Coleman School will host its annual For The Children walkathon at 11:30 a.m. Oct.
• Teen dance to benefit back-to-school efforts
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  WHITE PLAINS: Lexie Drago, a sophomore at Our Lady of Good Counsel Academy High School, is planning her first fundraiser.
• Westy to hold sign ups for fundraising walk
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... The Create Footprints 3K Walk will be held at 10 a.m. Sept. 13 at Saxon Woods Park, 1800 Mamaroneck Ave. in White Plains. Westy is open seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays and from 11 a.m. to 4 ...
• Con Ed to make repairs to blown wire in White Plains
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  WHITE PLAINS - Consolidated Edison crews are investigating the cause of a blown feeder wire that knocked out power to a senior citizens home at 95 S. Broadway, as well as other buildings, last night.
• Kinisky steps up to help a family in need
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... Shop in Port Chester last month. He was in the neighborhood and, while he normally does his grocery shopping in White Plains, he thought this would be a time saver. Little did he know his idea to save time would also help save a child in need. ...
• Spano wasn't chauffered to Yankees game
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  Donna Greene White Plains The writer is communications director, Westchester County.
• Join Crohn's Colitis Foundation to run for a cure
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... the Westchester Track Club, and Declan Foley. Team members included Eli Abemayor, Chappaqua; Michelle Acosta, White Plains; Ashley Brailsford, Nyack; Brianna Buckley, Tarrytown; Karen Buckwald, Larchmont; Elvira Damore, New Rochelle; Richard ...
• Parking machine change method inconvenient
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  I wonder which rocket scientist was responsible for installing the new parking fee machines at the Target/Wal-Mart/1 North Broadway White Plains parking lot? When I was finished shopping recently, I had rung up a $4 parking fee and only had $20 bills with me.
• Statement by the Westchester County Board of Legislators (Re: Today's ...
  posted on August 20, 2009 07:47:47 am
  ... Tara L. Martin, Press Secretary Westchester County Board of Legislators 148 Martine Avenue, 8th Floor White Plains, NY 10601 Ofc: (914) 995-2016 Fax: (914) 995-3884 Cell: (914) 380-0931 Please be sure to sign up for our e-newsletter and receive ...
• Ex-VP Of SK Foods Charged In Tomato Fraud Case
  posted on August 20, 2009 05:16:43 am
  ... SK Foods LP and that the case could reach the top of the company, owner Scott Salyer. Robert L. Watson of White Plains, N.Y., the first defendant sentenced in the widespread corruption SK Foods, was given two years in jail for his connection in the ...
• AG releases recording of abusive debt collector, files suit. Listen to the call.
  posted on August 20, 2009 04:25:00 am
  ... said his office was taking the collector's company to court. At a press conference at his regional office in White Plains, Cuomo said his office and other agencies had received more than 850 consumer complaints across the nation about 13 debt ...
• Lockeford Man Charged In Corruption Case
  posted on August 20, 2009 02:36:49 am
  A Lockeford man has been charged in connection with the government's ongoing investigation of corruption in the tomato industry.