Lessons to be learned this week: Don’t ride on the outside of cars, shoot fireworks in garages, have sex in the backyard of abandoned homes or eat mushrooms off the highway. What a week, enjoy the Wrapup.

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Police: Man drank before falling off car on I-95

Fireworks explode in home

Principal allegedly caught in sex romp resigns

Woman dies from eating mushrooms

Thru-Way Diner serves its last meal

Note to self: Never lie to police about a masked man sexually assaulting me. This and more on the Wrapup.

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Mount Vernon boy drowns upstate on 4th of July

19 rescued on Sound and Hudson

Yorktown man accused of toppling county clock tower

Woman lied about attack, police say

NBA’s Herbert Hill charged with DWI

Dying bats befuddle scientists

Samuel Israel is on the run no more. This and more on the Wrapup. Have a great 4th of July weekend.

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Fugitive Israel surrenders in Massachusetts

Mount Vernon school board makes budget cuts

State trooper faces fake-ticket charges

Yonkers officer accused of police brutality

Rising food prices for 4th of July weekend

A Briarcliff student mooned the audience during his high school graduation. Man, I love Westchester. This and more on the Wrapup.

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Feds arrest fugitive’s girlfriend

Pleasantville condo units burn after lightning strike

Briarcliff student moons his grad ceremony

Armonk girl, 3, killed in construction accident at home

Westchester preps for doggie duathlon

Bubaris found not guilty and the Larchmont boy wakes up from his coma. This and more on the Wrapup.

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Bubaris jurors point to lack of evidence

Reduced charge for teen accused of driving drunk and hitting boy

Winery sues town for $30M

Teen sentenced for giving pills to girl, 12

Ex-cop charged with promoting prostitution

It’s everyone’s favorite day, Friday the 13th! Mystery manhunts and more on the Wrapup.

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Storms batter Westchester

Larchmont boy remains in coma

Westchester board reforms its spending practices

DA probes ex-director of Mount Vernon library

Swindler may have faked death to escape prison sentence

Soldier in Afghanistan sees newborn via Webcam at Bronxville hospital

The chief advisor to the Board of Legislators spent taxpayer dollars to learn how to draw Japanese cartoons? This and more on the wrapup.

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Aide bills software, gadgets to the county

Cops: Woman drunk as she drove wrong way on Tappan Zee

Mental-health client accused of beating agency employee he was dating

Ardsley student relocated after threats cause evacuation

A teenager is alleging Harrison cops fondled her and forced her to watch a sex tape of herself. This and more on the wrapup.

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Cabbies remember slain colleague

Westchester legislators rack up free meals

Mount Vernon swears in first female police chief

Westchester communities celebrate Memorial Day

Teen says cops groped her and forced her to watch sex video — of herself

Voters headed to the polls this week to decide on school budgets and trustees. Find out the details on this story and more here on the Westchester Wrapup.

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School Elections 2008 Guide

Scarsdale High School students cope with teen boy’s suicide

Third fatal hit-and-run sparks community outcry for safer streets

Pleasantville detective suspended for criticizing Westchester D.A.

Purchase girl a finalist in Google contest

Two motorcyclists died in separate accident just minutes apart. Find out the details and more in this week’s wrapup.

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Two die in separate motorcycle accidents

After killing, cops to get more training

New Rochelle couple expecting child wins $1M in lottery

Ossining school administrator admits copying letter