Instagram on Monday afternoon finally deactivated a hate-filled account created anonymously last week by a Somers High School freshman designed to “slut-shame” classmates. The account was deactivated just hours after The Northern Westchester Examiner reached a company public relations professional
Read MoreA Somers High School freshman who allegedly “slut-shamed” classmates anonymously last week on social media has now admitted to creating the hateful Instagram accounts, a Northern Westchester Examiner investigation has found. This newspaper has obtained screenshots of a direct message
Read MoreWhite Plains police on Friday evening arrested a local man who has groped at least two women late at night in the Battle Hill neighborhood over the last two weeks. After receiving a description of the alleged groper, plain-clothed officers
Read MoreWhite Plains police have arrested a 25-year-old city resident for the murder earlier this week of Deron Strange. On Wednesday night Strange, a 35-year-old White Plains resident, had a dispute with the alleged murderer, Brandon Williams, police said. The two
Read MoreThe facts surrounding the Somers social media hate controversy are starting to crystalize, with several students telling The Northern Westchester Examiner of a freshman seeking to “slut-shame” classmates on Instagram while anonymously posting nasty comments about herself too in order
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When Shannon Becker was just a 10-year-old fifth-grader, commanding the mound for the Empire State Huskies, she uncorked a memorable pitch she recalls to this day. It was a wildly errant toss, hurled past the catcher, past the umpire, past
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Dear Readers, It was St. Patrick’s Day, my sister’s birthday, and, as a result of the simmering COVID-19 crisis, my dad and I had just regretfully canceled plans for all of us to visit my grandmother on Long Island to
Read MoreThe man found in Leonard Park pond yesterday afternoon died in an apparent accidental drowning, County Police tell The Examiner. At about 2 p.m. yesterday, a Westchester County police sergeant on routine patrol in Mount Kisco observed the body of a
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At first, as the donations began pouring in, I thought to myself: the power of the web and social media is truly amazing. It’s a wonder — so much energy mustered with the click of a digital button. Last Sunday
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In the summer of 2007, while bouncing around as a freelance writer, I made a call to my journalism friend Martin Wilbur that changed our lives forever. I had an idea, to launch a local paper, by soliciting the editorial
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