'He just wanted to be a good father' (21 hits)
29 Dec 2006 at 3:57pm
Son recalls finding dad crushed in living room after police chase ends in deadly crash

Brian Calhoun was relaxing in the basement of the home he shared with his father William soon after the pair returned from seeing Rocky Balboa together Wednesday afternoon when a massive collision rocked the house.
Teen driver released on bail (41 hits)
29 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
He stays silent on fatal accident as victim's mother expresses anger over her daughter's death

The Centereach teen who police say was drunk behind the wheel when he crashed into a parked car, killing a 16-year-old passenger, was released from the Suffolk County Jail yesterday on a $150,000 bond.
Shelter defends pit bulls' rep (6 hits)
29 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
For the 16 years Maryann Chernovsky has worked at Little Shelter Animal Adoption Center in Huntington, she has kept silent when critics have called for banning certain dog breeds.
DWI blamed in death of pedestrian (10 hits)
29 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
A man who police said was driving drunk struck a pedestrian with his sport utility vehicle yesterday in East Rockaway and left the victim in the street, Nassau police said.
Ethics probe for DA in Duke case (5 hits)
29 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
The North Carolina bar yesterday filed ethics charges against the prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse sexual assualt case, accusing him of making misleading and inflammatory remarks to the media about the athletes under suspicion.

A night out turns deadly (22 hits)
28 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
Teen dies in crash, driver, 17, charged with DWI after friends allegedly drank beer in park

Friends and family of a teenage girl killed in what police called a drunken driving crash mourned her death and expressed anger yesterday at how it happened.
Victim 'always made me laugh' (14 hits)
28 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
So confident, so comfortable with herself was Shannon Megarry that she kept 10 portraits of herself in her bedroom, said relatives of the Rocky Point teenager who died in a car crash Tuesday night.
Islip menorah Suffolk's 3rd to be vandalized (7 hits)
28 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
For the third time this month, a menorah has been vandalized in Suffolk, police said.
Crash stalls traffic on Southern State (10 hits)
28 Dec 2006 at 11:53am
A car crashed and rolled over on the Southern State Parkway in Nassau Thursday morning, temporarily shutting down three lanes and snarling traffic back for miles, New York State police said.
Suffolk police searching for wallet thief (7 hits)
28 Dec 2006 at 11:57am
Suffolk police are looking a thief who stole a woman's wallet in Bay Shore and went on a shopping spree with her credit cards, ringing up a total of $1,000 in goods at local Staples stores.

Rape charges against Duke lacrosse players dropped (6 hits)
22 Dec 2006 at 4:29pm
New questions were raised Friday about the remaining criminal charges against three Duke University lacrosse players, with the president of the university saying a prosecutor's decision to drop rape charges throws the rest of the case into doubt.
3 years' probation for mom in child neglect case (8 hits)
22 Dec 2006 at 8:42pm
A Mastic mother was sentenced to three years' probation Friday on a child endangerment conviction for keeping an unsanitary home for her cancer-stricken young daughter.
Three LI paving contractors enter guilty pleas (17 hits)
22 Dec 2006 at 11:15pm
Three of Long Island's leading asphalt paving contractors, whom law enforcement officials say are part of an "asphalt cartel," pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to rig bids on contracts that cost Suffolk County and the Town of Brookhaven millions of dollars.
Despite charge in murder-for-hire plot, wife stands by husband (28 hits)
22 Dec 2006 at 9:17pm
Santhosh Paul's wife, Tina, continues to support him despite allegations that he arranged to have her murdered, a friend of the couple said Friday.
Students raise holiday hopes (6 hits)
22 Dec 2006 at 11:29pm
A Roslyn grandmother and her three small grandchildren who faced losing their home have been saved from a joyless and possibly homeless holiday.

Fire at Farmingdale College (5 hits)
22 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
Fire ripped through part of the Allard Field House at Farmingdale State College Thursday, collapsing the wooden facade at the front of the building.
'Greatest Sacrifice' (6 hits)
21 Dec 2006 at 11:16pm
Two local men, one who gave his life to save others, another who risked it, honored by Carnegie Hero Fund

At the very moment Vernail McDonald was talking on the phone yesterday from her Brooklyn home about her hero brother, she was handed a piece of mail bearing the letterhead of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.
Brazil crash case may take years (6 hits)
21 Dec 2006 at 10:33pm
Long Island pilots Joseph Lepore and Jan Paladino may be home for the holidays, but the investigations and litigation set in motion by the midair collision in Brazil on Sept. 29 will be continuing into the new year and possibly beyond.
DA knew of improper filing (23 hits)
22 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
Two months before Smithtown's town board suspended building department chief Robert Bonerba, the Suffolk County district attorney's office subpoenaed his financial disclosure forms, according to Town Supervisor Patrick Vecchio.
Martin guilty of manslaughter in slaying (13 hits)
22 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
Keith Martin looked solemn Thursday as he walked out of the Nassau County Courthouse with his arms around his relatives, just moments after a jury found him guilty of first-degree manslaughter for standing by while his friend killed a man, then helping to dispose of the body.

While cleaning up between shows on Friday, theater employee and college student, Christopher Montgomery, made an unexpected find. A pouch containing $24,000 in cash! So what did the 19 year old Long Islander do with all that cash?

He returned its rightful owner of course!

The money belonging to RoseMarie Limoncelli, had fallen out of her purse as she sat with her daughter watching "Happy Feet". She hadnt had time to get to the bank to deposit the cash so she brought it with her. As soon as she realized the cash was missing, Ms. Limoncelli frantically called the theater and was told the money had been found and was waiting for her. Grateful for the teens honesty, she offered a reward —but the kid wouldnt accept it!

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Kudos to Christopher Montgomery and the theater manager for doing the right thing, how many of us could honestly say wed do the same?

Heroic act at home (5 hits)
18 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
Newly discharged Marine, back from serving in Iraq, saves man from burning car after Hauppauge crash

It wasn't Iraq, but a trip home from work unexpectedly turned into a heroic rescue operation for one recently discharged Marine.
A new mission for vets (5 hits)
18 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
Vietnam's disabled help today's war wounded see they can still succeed in life

In their everyday lives, they are firefighters, doctors, war veterans. They have commitments and families of their own. Yet all of them in their own ways have reached out to others, through volunteer missions that have taken them to places from Walter Reed Army Medical Center to Mississippi, from Honduras to Iraq.
Different tactics on crisis (6 hits)
18 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
Suffolk knew about outbreak days before Nassau, but it was the latter that took lead to notify the public

Suffolk County health officials got their first inclination that an E. coli outbreak was hitting Long Island late in the day on Friday, Dec. 1. By that Sunday night, epidemiologists in the county's health department who had worked through the weekend connected nine E. coli cases to Taco Bell restaurants and learned that New Jersey officials were dealing with a similar outbreak.
Peconic Bay hospital offers to host VA clinic (5 hits)
18 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead volunteered last week to host a new clinic for veterans.
Man killed by train in N. Lindenhurst (9 hits)
18 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
A man was hit and killed by a Long Island Rail Road train in North Lindenhurst, MTA police said.

Defense on offense (6 hits)
16 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
Attorneys for 3 men accused of Duke rape denounce prosecution for failing to note DNA didn't match suspects'

DURHAM, N.C. - Defense attorneys continued to hammer away at the Duke lacrosse rape prosecution case Friday, questioning a private lab director who acknowledged his report on DNA testing had omitted information that none of the Duke players were a match for genetic material recovered from the accuser.
Woman arrested for LIRR baby dumping (8 hits)
15 Dec 2006 at 11:09pm
A Woodbury nanny who Nassau police said suffocated her newborn son, stuffed his body into a shoe box and plastic bag and left his body on a Hicksville LIRR platform last month, has been charged with second-degree murder.
Flash: Long Island holiday lights (5 hits)
15 Dec 2006 at 2:22pm
Ex-publisher gets 15 months in child porn case (8 hits)
15 Dec 2006 at 10:32pm
Former Newsday Publisher Robert Johnson was sentenced Friday to 15 months in federal prison and fined $50,000, following his plea to possession of child pornography and obstruction of justice.
No link in Midwest taco eateries E.coli outbreak (5 hits)
15 Dec 2006 at 11:07pm
As disease hunters chased leads Friday in their probe to find how a dangerous E. coli strain tainted menu items at a string of Taco Bell outlets on the East Coast, teams in three Midwestern states were following leads in emerging food-borne illnesses there.

If you asked for mead from your local grocery store or restaurant, don’t be surprised if you’re met with a blank stare or feel disappointed if you’re served one with a taste that might not be like anything you’ve had before. Mead is an alcoholic drink that very few people are familiar with, although it doesn’t lack for fans and enthusiasts.

Mead is neither beer nor wine and probably the only brewery on Long Island where you can go to enjoy it is in Long Island Meadery, a small company that has been brewing mead since they first learned of this drink at a medieval recreationist event. They were so impressed with the drink that they decided to brew it themselves.

A Brief History of Long Island Meadery
Long Island Meadery is operated by Paul Holm and started out as a home-kitchen brewery. As the production and demand increased, the owners decided to extend its line beyond the kitchen and produce commercial mead, under the name Long Island Meadery which is under the management of Medieval Brews. The company was incorporated in June 2000 and opened for retail in November 2004.

If you’re not familiar with mead, here is some information about this very old alcoholic beverage:

Mead is the term used for any alcoholic drink that is made from fermented honey, hence its other name, honeywine. It can either be traditional or flavored with herbs, fruits, vegetables and spices. The great thing about mead is that it can be customized to the imagination and taste of the brewer.

Mead was one of the earliest alcoholic beverages ever produced, with its history going back to more than 8,000 years, although it’s largely undocumented. The most popular alcohol then was grape wine which was especially common in the southern climates but up north, where grapes were not available, brewers used honey instead.

Most people’s first impression of mead is that it is too sweet and indeed, it can be since it is made from the fermented honey. But brewer’s can opt to produce mead that is not too sweet at all and in fact, it can be paired with different flavors to produce one unique taste.

Tasting
Long Island Meadery offers free tasting at special events. To know where the next tasting event is, visit their website at Long Island Meadery (22 hits).

‘Ask for Mead’
To drum up more interest in this interesting drink that’s a class all its own, Long Island Meadery’s website features an ‘Ask for Mead’ campaign on its home page, where visitors are encouraged to ask for mead beverages in stores, bars and restaurants to increase demand and availability of this drink.

Mead Products
Long Island Meadery offers mead in different flavors: Peach Mead, Strawberry Mead, Peach/Apricot, Strawberry/Raspberry Mead, Black Raspberry Mead, Red Raspberry Mead, Pineapple Mead, Root Beer Mead with buckwheat honey and Traditional Mead made of 100% clover honey.

Two of their award-winning mead flavors are Apple Cyser (Gold Medal from the International Mead Festival) and Blueberry (Medal Winner from New York Food and Wine Classic). All mead flavors carry a hint of orange blossom and have an alcohol volume from 11 to 13%. 750mL bottles are priced from $12.50 to $14.

Is that sediment in my mead?
Don’t panic if you find particulates in your bottle of mead. This is caused either by continued fermentation or re-fermentation. Continued fermentation is when mead is bottled before fermentation has stopped. Re-fermentation can occur when fermentation stops and starts again after the bottling process.

If you find sediment in your mead, keep the mead cold in the refrigerator. The drop in temperature will halt the fermentation process. Mead also has more residual sugar which may appear as sediment at the bottom of the bottle. When it’s time to serve the mead, try to hold the sediments down while pouring off the top.

How to order
Long Island Meadery currently accepts orders only from New York residents. They are located at 1347 Lincoln Avenue, Suite 11 in Holbrook. For orders or more information, they can be phoned at 631-285-7469 or faxed at 631-472-7310. Case orders have a 10% discount and all orders are charged tax and shipping fees.

Online ordering is not yet available, but out-of-state orders may be arranged with their retailer, Lake Liquor.com (9 hits). Currently, their products are available in Pennsylvania. For more information and a look-see at their flavors and pricing, go to Long Island Meadery (22 hits).

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Board to study possible booze ban on LIRR (6 hits)
13 Dec 2006 at 4:02pm
Riders, the days of drinking on the rails may soon be over.
E.coli confusion continues (5 hits)
12 Dec 2006 at 11:12pm
While two major federal agencies lead the investigation into food served at Taco Bell and with three state health departments on the case too, officials conceded Tuesday that an answer to what caused the E.coli outbreak that's sickened dozens of people who ate at the fast-food chain may never come.
Gibian guilty of murder in samurai slay case (5 hits)
13 Dec 2006 at 4:33pm
Jurors this afternoon found a 20-year-old Hauppauge man guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his stepfather, a retired police officer, with a samurai sword in February 2005.
Roslyn substitute teacher charged with sexually assaulting student (10 hits)
13 Dec 2006 at 12:30am
A substitute teacher accused of raping a 15-year-old student was held on $50,000 bond after his arraignment in First District Court in Hempstead Wednesday.
Islip air traffic control tower in trouble (6 hits)
12 Dec 2006 at 10:53pm
Air traffic controllers at Long Island MacArthur Airport said Tuesday that the facility's control tower is plagued by roof leaks, chronic overheating and two blind spots on taxiways that can create hazards when airplanes slip momentarily from view.