Browse past news stories for Gorton High School in Yonkers, NY.

• OFALS to hold anniversary gala Thursday (Greenwich Post)
  posted on October 19, 2009 at 04:10:26 am
  The Orthopaedic Foundation for Active Lifestyles (OFALS), a nonprofit organization which promotes, supports, develops and encourages research and education on minimally invasive orthopaedic surgery and advancements in musculoskeletal diseases, will host its fifth Anniversary Gala Fund-raiser on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 at 7 p.m. at an elegant evening at Brae Burn Country Club, Purchase, N.Y.
• Crash victim identified as Yonkers nurse (The Journal News)
  posted on October 6, 2009 at 01:06:03 pm
  YONKERS - A registered nurse who worked in the intensive care unit at St. John's Riverside Hospital has been identified as the 26-year-old motorcyclist killed Sunday along a scenic mountain road in Orange County.
• Fallen Yonkers Marine laid to rest (The Journal News)
  posted on October 4, 2009 at 06:34:29 am
  BRONX - Lance Cpl. John Malone was treated in death with the care that he had shown so often to others when he was alive. The 24-year-old Yonkers resident was carried to his grave by his fellow Marines Saturday, protected as he had done for them on dangerous missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Services set for local Marine killed in Afghanistan (The Journal News)
  posted on September 30, 2009 at 03:17:49 pm
  A local Marine killed in action in Afghanistan on Thursday will be honored by family and friends this week.
• ‘John's gone' (The Journal News)
  posted on September 29, 2009 at 06:43:43 am
  John Malone could light up a room. Friends from Yonkers and Mahopac recall his friendliness and fantastic sense of humor; both would reveal themselves after Malone would overcome his shyness. Today they mourn news of the Marine's loss.
• Sponsored by: (The Journal News)
  posted on September 28, 2009 at 04:39:43 pm
  YONKERS - A driver lost control of his friend's BMW on the rain-soaked Bronx River Parkway and crashed into a pole Sunday morning, killing his passenger, Westchester County police said.
• Lance Cpl. John Malone, killed in Afghanistan, was anxious to go home (New York Daily News)
  posted on September 27, 2009 at 06:01:00 am
  Lance Cpl. John Malone had seen his share of action in Iraq. And he was anxious to return home, according to an e-mail he'd sent a friend just two days before his death.
• Local Marine killed in Afghanistan (The Journal News)
  posted on September 26, 2009 at 06:34:50 am
  A 24-year-old U.S. Marine killed in action in Afghanistan on Thursday was a Gorton High School graduate and former Mahopac resident who "would light up the room," family and friends said.
• Mourner: Enough is enough (The Journal News)
  posted on September 17, 2009 at 06:34:19 am
  YONKERS - Hundreds of people streamed past Fantasia Byrd's body Wednesday to pay final respects to a young woman killed in Georgia last week.
• Hundreds attend funeral for Fantasia Byrd (The Journal News)
  posted on September 17, 2009 at 02:04:19 am
  YONKERS - Hundreds of people streamed past Fantasia Byrd's body this morning to pay final respects to the young woman killed in Georgia last week.
• Friends of Yonkers native slain in Ga. to bury her (The Journal News)
  posted on September 16, 2009 at 12:36:40 pm
  YONKERS - Family and friends of Fantasia Byrd are prepared to bury the former Gorton High School standout Wednesday without knowing who blindly fired a gun into an apartment she was visiting in Georgia last week.
• Yonkers woman, 20, seeking new life in South is cut down by stray bullet (The Journal News)
  posted on September 10, 2009 at 06:43:14 am
  YONKERS - A former Gorton High School class president who was killed by a stray bullet only 11 days after moving to Atlanta to start her a new life did things the right way.
• Stray bullet steals young life (The Journal News)
  posted on September 10, 2009 at 06:34:51 am
  YONKERS - A former Gorton High School class president who was killed by a stray bullet only 11 days after moving to Atlanta was remembered yesterday as a caring, helpful person.
• Yonkers student struck in eye by slingshot may get $950,000 from city (The Journal News)
  posted on September 4, 2009 at 02:21:10 pm
  YONKERS - A former Gorton High School student whose eye was injured by a screw flung from a slingshot may receive a $950,000 settlement from the city.
• 8 Yonkers schools get new principals (The Journal News)
  posted on August 21, 2009 at 06:36:31 am
  YONKERS - New principals will welcome students in eight of the city's public schools Sept. 8.
• Yonkers schools may get $1.4B face-lift (The Journal News)
  posted on August 13, 2009 at 06:34:48 am
  Yonkers school officials are proposing a $1.4 billion modernization plan that could result in razing seven schools over 10 to 15 years.
• Teens looking for summer jobs face reduced opportunities (The Journal News)
  posted on July 24, 2009 at 06:46:55 am
  For Rayqauin Hyatt, summer is a time to have fun with friends, but with no job, his entertainment options are limited.
• In brief: Gorton High principal abruptly quits (The Journal News)
  posted on June 20, 2009 at 02:34:48 am
  YONKERS - Gorton High School Principal Danny House abruptly resigned on Tuesday for "personal reasons." Schools spokeswoman Jerilynne Fierstein declined to comment on the matter, citing personnel matters.
• Gorton High School principal resigns amid rape allegation (The Journal News)
  posted on June 19, 2009 at 06:38:40 am
  YONKERS: A 15-year-old Lincoln High School student approached a teacher at School 14 with a knife wrapped in a sweatshirt, police said. When the knife dropped to the floor, the boy picked it up and fled, but he was caught and arrested, police said.
• Yonkers police unions say crime is up, units should be restored (The Journal News)
  posted on April 24, 2009 at 06:36:50 am
  YONKERS - City police unions say crime is up and are calling for restoration of a series of specialized police units and additional funding for overtime, both of which were cut at the end of last year as the city struggled to reduce a midyear budget gap.
• 3 teens arrested in 2 separate attacks on Yonkers students (The Journal News)
  posted on April 23, 2009 at 06:36:09 am
  YONKERS - Three city high school students were arrested on charges of attacking other students in two separate incidents.
• Gorton High student slashed in Yonkers (The Journal News)
  posted on April 18, 2009 at 06:36:09 am
  YONKERS - A 15-year-old student at Gorton High School was slashed in the lower back with a box cutter as he was leaving the school Thursday, police said yesterday.
• Yonkers schools offer 1.18% spending increase (The Journal News)
  posted on April 8, 2009 at 01:42:16 pm
  YONKERS - School officials proposed a $489 million budget for the 2009-10 academic year last night with a 1.18 percent spending increase that they called 'historically low.'
• 2nd Circuit Scuttles Attorney Fees in Civil Rights Case (Law.com)
  posted on April 3, 2009 at 02:06:11 am
  Attorney fees should never have been awarded in a civil rights lawsuit brought by students who challenged their punishment for walking out of a Yonkers high school in a protest, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that a lower court judge was wrong to award fees because the judge never granted relief in the case and therefore should not have ...
• Yonkers schools reveal magnet program cuts, mergers (The Journal News)
  posted on March 2, 2009 at 07:42:50 am
  YONKERS - Parents and public school students preparing to cast school-choice ballots tomorrow will have fewer magnet program choices for next year.