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Sentencing Of Mount Vernon Man In Fatal Crash Tops News This Week

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. - Here are some of the stories that topped the news in Mount Vernon this week:

See the stories that topped the news in Mount Vernon this week.

See the stories that topped the news in Mount Vernon this week.

  • A Mount Vernon man who was convicted on two counts each of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault following a July 2012 car crash on the Saw Mill River Parkway in Yonkers was sentenced to a maximum of four years in prison on Monday.
  • A Mount Vernon police officer was injured over the weekend, when a taxi attempted to avoid a police checkpoint by speeding through, leading police on a wild chase that ended in the Bronx.
  • Mount Vernon resident, Lucius Crawford, who stabbed his girlfriend 31 times in a jealous rage in 2012, has been convicted of murder and faces up to life in prison.
  • The Picture House played host to more than 300 seventh-graders and eighth-graders from Amani Public Charter School in Mount Vernon and Pelham Middle School for a discussion about the documentary "Freedom Riders."

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