08/11/09 The New Rochelle Briefing (Updated)

Comprehensive News Feed for New Rochelle, NY.

• Mass. transgender inmate denied electrolysis
  posted on August 12, 2009 06:05:41 am
  In this Thursday, May 24, 1990 file photo, Robert Koselik is led out of the New Rochelle, N.Y. courthouse.
• Inmate's sex-change hits snag
  posted on August 12, 2009 01:30:46 am
  Left: 1990 file photo of Robert Koselik being led out of the New Rochelle, N.Y. courthouse.
• Man accused of using gun in Yonkers charged with stealing it in New Rochelle
  posted on August 12, 2009 01:06:17 am
  A Yonkers man charged there with menacing was using a gun he stole from a New Rochelle home earlier this month, police said.
• Custodian, district settle noose lawsuit
  posted on August 11, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  NEW ROCHELLE - The school district has reached a settlement with a middle school custodian who complained last year about nooses he found in management offices, including one around the neck of a toy monkey.
• Police blotter
  posted on August 11, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... and ransacked between 6 and 9:45 p.m. Aug. 2. Nothing appeared to have been stolen. Elm Street: A New Rochelle man was robbed at gunpoint of $700 by three men who fled in a red Dodge with a black hood around 9:30 p.m. Aug. 1. North ...
• New Rochelle city employee accused of selling Ecstasy
  posted on August 11, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  NEW ROCHELLE - A city employee is accused of selling Ecstasy pills over the Internet to an undercover officer.
• African dance and drumming
  posted on August 11, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  The crowd-pleasing Bokandeye Troupe, directed by Anthony Wooden, performs African dance to djembe drumming at the Ossie Davis Theater at the New Rochelle Public Library.
• Finally, a plan
  posted on August 11, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... 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 county will pay to the ...
• Judge denies Mass. transgender killer's request for hair removal; inmate is seeking sex-change
  posted on August 12, 2009 12:29:03 am
  In this Thursday, May 24, 1990 file photo, Robert Koselik is led out of the New Rochelle, N.Y. courthouse.
• Read Comments
  posted on August 11, 2009 10:57:32 pm
  ... 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 county will pay to the ...
• DANCE
  posted on August 11, 2009 10:50:30 pm
  The crowd-pleasing Bokandeye Troupe, directed by Anthony Wooden, performs African dance to djembe drumming at the Ossie Davis Theater at the New Rochelle Public Library.
• Shrimp Suit Doesn't Hold Water
  posted on August 11, 2009 04:46:54 pm
  ... to a class-action suit filed in Manhattan federal court. He was apparently so incensed over the purchase at the New Rochelle store that he had his lawyer conduct a coast-to-coast investigation, which found that not a single $9.99 tray was heavy ...
• Give Me an A
  posted on August 10, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... the elusive A that he needed. Cucuzza sliced off the A and sent the eight letters in Gonzalez to a company in New Rochelle, N.Y. to do the stitching. Before Saturdaya s game started, Gonzaleza s name was spelled in full on the jersey. Gonzalez wore ...
• Cross-Dressing Wife-Killer Wants Smooth Legs
  posted on August 11, 2009 11:31:04 am
  ... in a car outside a local shopping mall. Kosilek went missing after the murder, but ultimately was captured in New Rochelle, NY. In 1993, while in prison, he legally changed his name to Michelle. Since then, Kosilek has been fighting with prison ...
• New Rochelle schools reach undisclosed settlement with custodian over hangman nooses
  posted on August 11, 2009 03:10:50 am
  The school district has reached a settlement with a middle school custodian who complained last year about nooses he found in management offices including one around the neck of a toy monkey.
• New Rochelle city employee accused of dealing ecstasy
  posted on August 11, 2009 12:50:53 am
  A city employee is accused of selling ecstasy pills to an undercover officer. The Westchester County District Attorney's office said today that Jason Martinez, 24, of Yonkers was charged on July 30 with two felony counts of criminal sale of a controlled hallucinogenic substance and one felony count of criminal possession of a controlled ...
• RitterAssociates Expands Leadership Team - Anthony M. Miano Appointed ...
  posted on August 10, 2009 05:36:32 pm
  ... and Fortune 500 companies." Anthony earned his BBA in Management Information Systems from Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y., and a MBA from the University of Pittsburgh's Katz Graduate School of Business. Most recently, Anthony was Managing ...
• Convicted wife-killer has asked the court for a sexchange operation.
  posted on August 10, 2009 12:35:04 pm
  ... seat of a car at the Emerald Square shopping mall in Attleboro. Kosilek went on the lam and was captured in New Rochelle, N.Y. He changed his name in 1993 to Michelle and began living as a woman in the all-male prison. A Republican state lawmaker, ...
• Wiffle Ball tournament turns back the clock
  posted on August 09, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... Actually, they're more like a bunch of guys who grew up in the Bronx and ended up moving north to towns like New Rochelle and White Plains. Last year, when Westchester County offered its first Wiffle Ball tournament, the boys from Morris Park, now ...
• Wrecked auto industry drives art exhibit
  posted on August 09, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... and paper on canvas work by Nancy Egol Nikkal, who lives in Hastings but has a studio at the Media Loft in New Rochelle - uses text from a winter issue of Interview magazine to contrast the volatility of the stock market with the enduring value of ...