Christian Burgos’ voice boomed through a bullhorn, the words spreading over a crowd of more than one hundred. “We, as the youth of Mount Vernon, need to be the change for what’s right,” the ...

Mount Vernon school district officials and legislators from throughout the region used words like "catastrophic," "apocalyptic" and "devastating" to describe the impact a $2.9 million cut in state ...

A botched robbery at an unlicensed cannabis store in Mount Vernon ended early Tuesday with two men fatally shot, one of them a robber and the other an employee, The Journal News/lohud has learned. The ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY – The identity of the body found in March was announced Friday. The remains of 20-year-old Keriaye Winfrey of Indianapolis, Indiana, continue to be investigated following a recent ...

The superintendent of the Mount Vernon school district has been reassigned for 14 months now as two investigations into the possible misuse of federal grant money continue: one commissioned by the ...