A city in Westchester County notched a major legal win this week after a New York State appeals court reversed a $2.4 million ...

The city of Mount Vernon padlocked Mega Beverage in May 2016 over fire code violations. Its owner said he was a victim of political retribution.

A view of preserved cherries inside one of the bottles found at Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association The bottles, whose shapes are characteristic of styles from the 1740s and 1750s ...

He was famously accused of cutting down a cherry tree, which may or may not have happened, but we do know the first president of the United States stored many bottles of the fruit at his Mount Vernon ...

He told NPR and WBUR’s Here & Now in April that “intact 18th-century food remains is just not something that’s typically found ... the bottles and refrigerated them at Mount Vernon ...

A view of preserved cherries inside one of the bottles found at Mount Vernon. The bottles, whose shapes are characteristic of styles from the 1740s and 1750s, were discovered in five storage pits ...

Seeds preserve best when they are dry, and most of the samples found at Mount Vernon were waterlogged. A couple of pits tested initially were not viable as seeds. Still, he said the bottles are a ...

were found in some of the bottles. Testing is underway to confirm what appears to be gooseberries or currants in other bottles, per Associated Press. Mount Vernon is working with the U.S ...