UPDATE: Westchester County Executive George Latimer tasks the County Human Rights Commission to investigate allegations of antisemitic slurs that led to cancellation of girls’ varsity basketball game between Leffell and Roosevelt High in Yonkers
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BREAKING - The Scarsdale Youth Hockey Association reports one of its players in their 14U program has tested positive for the coronavirus.
They have notified the State, Co Health Department & Scarsdale School District and have cancelled this weekend’s games.
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NOW - Director of the New York Working Families Party urging
@RepSeanMaloney
to drop out of 17th and run for 18th congressional race instead
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@MondaireJones
BREAKING: SOURCES SAY HE’S IN🚨 Vote 2023 is barely in the books but got big Vote 2024 scoop.3rd source just confirmed Westchester County Executive George Latimer has made the decision to challenge Congressman Jamaal Bowman in a democratic primary. No comment from Latimer or team
Love this! A New Rochelle woman plays her violin every day with speakers so the people at the
#COVID19
testing site below can hear!
#InThisTogether
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Sources tell me State Senator Alessandra has decided to run for Tom Suozzi’s congressional seat and will announce tomorrow morning. yonkers tribune reporting same. Stay tuned!
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BREAKING NEWS -
@NYGovCuomo
just directed nonessential State workforce in hotspot areas - Rockland, Westchester, NYC, Suffolk, Nassau - to work from home for 2 weeks.
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BREAKING 🚨 VOTE 2024 🚨Westchester Co. Executive George Latimer just confirmed to me he has been approached by politically-connected individuals to run in a primary vs. Rep. Jamaal Bowman. He told me - ‘I am thinking about the advice I have been given and will have more to come’
NEW TONIGHT: Westchester District Attorney Mimi Rocah is speaking out for the first time publicly since reopening a cold case that has mystified law enforcement agencies across the country for decades.
#RobertDurst
@WestchesterDA
#FIRSTON12
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BREAKING 🚨 Just learned that the Las Vegas PD DNA lab will be conducting a ‘direct comparison’ this week against Rex Heuermann’s DNA and the DNA recovered in the case of murdered NJ mom Victoria Camara. Results expected in 6-8 weeks.
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#TURNTOTARA
BREAKING: Target is coming to Yonkers! The mega-store just signed a 40-year lease for 130,000 square ft of retail space at the Cross County Center!
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BREAKING 🚨 VOTE 2024🚨Westchester County Executive George Latimer formally announces
#NY16
Congressional run - first here on News 12. A portion of our interview airing now across the network, we will be editing the rest in the morning. We also have reaction from Rep. Bowman.
BREAKING - ALL modern orthodox schools are now closed in Westchester and parts of the Bronx due to Westchester's first corona virus patient involving New Rochelle attorney. Head of WJC will be going live on our air shortly.
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BREAKING NEWS - A doctor at the Maple Medical group in White Plains has tested positive for
#coronavirus
. Patients of the doctor who have visited past 2 weeks and have symptoms should call their hotline to arrange for testing
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MAJOR UPDATE VOTE 2024 🚨 Multiple sources tell me prominent democrats are urging Westchester County Executive George Latimer to run for Congress - in a primary challenge against NY-16 incumbent Jamaal Bowman. More to come
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BREAKING - Sources telling me Team Hochul preparing for victory speech - talking now with Pelosi and President -they like the numbers they are seeing in battleground counties like Westchester -
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JUST IN : Donald Trump is coming to Long Island next Wednesday for a rally planned at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Referencing the attack on a Hempstead homeowner, release said Nassau ‘has felt the dangerous effects of Kamala Harris’ open border bloodbath’.
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BREAKING 🚨 MORE INFO - Told it’s actually group of 30 law enforcement officials from Westchester , Long Island and NYC metro in Israel now for terrorism and antisemitism training sponsored by security group. All safe at Tel Aviv hotel
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RIGHT NOW:
@SenSchumer
calling for immediate probe into power outages in Westchester and Hudson Valley "we are going to force our utility companies to change and will watch progress like a hawk"
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4th day of early voting surge across Westchester! Check out these long lines tonight in Mount Vernon where they announced they will keep polls open one hr later!
#Vote2020
#EarlyVoting
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HOSPITAL SHIP COMING TO NY: The USNS Comfort will be arriving to the New York harbor in April. The 1,000-bed hospital ship has 12 operating rooms and the Governor says it will significantly increase New York's hospital surge capacity.
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Happy work anniversary to me 🎉
This week I mark 16 yrs with my News 12 family!! Nowhere else on the 🌍 I would rather practice storytelling!! Grateful to have the world's best viewers as partners!!🙏
#turntotara
#localmatters
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BREAKING - New Rochelle police are now investigating hate-fueled vandalism at a local store selling women’s clothing. Let us know if you shop here. Tdrosenblum
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HATE AT HOME - Response from
@LeffellSchool
after girls basketball players were reportedly targeted with antisemitic and extremely hateful verbal slurs from opposing team at Roosevelt High in Yonkers, leading to game cancellation.
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BREAKING - Confirmed by Board of Elections. An Election Day bag which includes the ballots was sent to the wrong location resulting in poll workers wrongfully turning away voters from Fox Meadow in Scarsdale in
#NY16
this am. They are trying to find voters to invite them back.
BREAKING - Westchester co executive Latimer to declare 2-week state of emergency....calls on closure of 44 school districts...
also looking at the Westchester County Center as another testing site…and shuttered Doral Arrowood as isolation site
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BREAKING - Just sat down for a full hour with White House hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and we covered it all since no question was off limits - from Covid to his late uncle and dad.
We will start airing portions tonight at 5pm across the News 12 Network !
@RFKJRpodcast
@news12
Heartfelt thank you to the incredible and selfless 250 soldiers and airmen of the New York National Guard who are working 24/7 to help the State Department of Health task force contain the
#COVID
ー19 virus cluster outbreak in
#Westchester
. We appreciate you 🙏
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In 15 yrs have not seen a traffic event this bad in Westchester....must have passed 30-40 cars stuck and spinning. Zero plows. Plz be safe out there
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MORE ‘I will beat him’ - Senator Gillibrand says should Lee Zeldin decide to run for her seat in 2024, she likes her chances - a lot.
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BREAKING - 2 more staff members at Maple Medical Group at the Davis Avenue location in White Plains have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Total confirmed positive: 3
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BREAKING - POTUS VISIT TO NY - Multiple sources are telling me President Biden is planning on coming to Dutchess County this week - stopping at
@IBM
in Poughkeepsie . We will keep you posted on more details soon
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Our News 12 family is reeling over the loss of our longtime analyst Lawrence Otis Graham. The beloved attorney/activist/author died Friday at 58. Please keep his beautiful family in your prayers. I will have the honor of celebrating his legacy in tonight's 4pm newscast
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TODAY ON 12:
@NYGovCuomo
just announced that because of the decline in infection rates...closing times for restaurants and bars will be extended from 10p to 11p statewide!
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1:1 with former President Donald Trump 🚨 We talked about top VP contenders, his timeline for a decision, his prediction for his trial outcome, whether there is a spot for
@AmbNikkiHaley
on his team and MUCH MORE !
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Link 👉
BREAKING 🚨 Just wrapped up a one on one interview with Donald Trump. We discussed the state of the race, the migrant crisis, the Latino vote and much more including - his trial and expectations for next week . Watch News 12 tonight at 10p
#BREAKING
-So sad. Westchester's Holocaust memorial, the Garden of Remembrance, was just vandalized with hate symbols. Latimer- "We are enraged by this act and heartbroken that individuals would target members of our community on the most solemn day in their tradition"
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BREAKING - Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner responds to antisemitism allegations at Roosevelt High targeting jewish student athletes from Leffell. His letter to NY Board of Regents calls for review of disciplinary actions for improper behavior on school grounds.
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BREAKING: 2 construction workers, 2 nurses, and a cop stranded on Greenwood Lake Mountain in the ice storm built a fire on the side of the road to stay warm. 18 wheeler blocking the way further down the mountain. Photo by Christopher Bade
BREAKING- NY Democrats just announced enough wins to lock in a supermajority in state senate...this means their priority items will essentially become veto-proof. It's been decades since they've had this status in the traditionally Republican-held chamber
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BREAKING - Fmr. Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino just confirmed for me printed reports that he is considering gubernatorial run after several big donors and party leaders approached him.
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DRAMATIC SPIKE: NY now has the most
#coronavirus
cases in the nation, nearly 3000.
@NYGovCuomo
says they are doing more testing but real numbers likely in the tens of thousands
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BREAKING - Two sources close to the investigation just shared a stunning development - Westchester DA Mimi Rocah has reportedly decided to go to a grand jury, pursuing charges against
#RobertDurst
in the 1982 disappearance of his 1st wife, Kathie Durst
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@WestchesterDA
VOTE 2024?! Bronx resident Neil Harrison paid to have this billboard put up not far from the Executive Mansion in Albany! Harrison says its too late for
@NYGovCuomo
to get in the 2020 race…but he’s pushing him for 2024!! Thoughts?!
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JUST ANNOUNCED:
@NYGovCuomo
sets up 1st mental health hotline in the country to help people struggling to adjust to life amidst the
#CoronavirusOutbreak
. Hotline is being staffed by 6,000 mental health professionals who are volunteering their time
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2 days ago I asked you to reach out w any coronavirus related problems you want me to investigate.I got more than 300 emails. I have cried reading through them. Please know that NONE of you are alone. We will get back to all of you this wknd
The
#TURNTOTARA
team 🙏
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BREAKING - Yonkers Councilman John Rubbo criticizes Yonkers school leaders for ‘downplaying’ alleged antisemitic verbal attacks made by Roosevelt students to visiting Jewish athletes
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@JohnRubbo
BEHIND BARS - What is life like behind bars for the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann as he marks one month behind bars at the Suffolk Co Correctional Facility 👇
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#TurnToTara
#BREAKING
- Fmr Westchester County Executive + GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino has decided to challenge incumbent State Senator Peter Harckham in the 40th district
#firston12
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BREAKING - Here inside Suffolk Co Correctional Facility with the Sheriff who told me while Rex Heuermann has been removed from the mental health suicide watch he was on , he remains on a secondary jail suicide watch as a precaution
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BREAKING - All barbershops, hair salons, tattoo or piercing parlors, nail salons, hair removal services, and related personal care services are ordered to close to members of the public starting Saturday, March 21 at 8PM
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BREAKING - The grand jury against
#RobertDurst
in NY has begun. I can confirm prosecutors in Westchester have started presenting their case to jurors, including testimony from key witnesses. This as Durst battles Covid-19 on a ventilator in LA
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🎉 Happy 20 yr work-versary to me !!! This means I’ve officially spent nearly half my life at this network telling your stories !! No place I’d rather be for the next 20 ❤️always here for your concerns tdrosenblum
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VOTE 2020: Remember there was such a thing?! Anyhow, just got word that a key health policy expert & advisor on the
#coronavirus
-
Dr. Zeke Emanuel - is endorsing dem congressional candidate
@EvelynNFarkas
. Boy, do I miss covering politics! Stay safe all 🙏
MORE 🚨 BREAKING 🚨Law enforcement source just told me this is a ‘major development that could open up the DNA floodgate’ in Las Vegas. This is re news we broke that PD there will directly compare Rex Heuermann's DNA with DNA recovered from murdered NJ mom
'That is a direct threat to national security.' Rep. Ryan demands House speaker keep Rep. George Santos away from classified info
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@RepPatRyanNY
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Much appreciation to the 1840 Tavern at the Clarksville Inn for this powerful tribute to our fallen heroes. 🇺🇸 They reserved a table and bought a round for the 13 U.S. servicemen who were killed during Thursday’s attacks. Bravo and thank you 👏👏👏👏
#KabulAttack
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