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Looks like thery're calling for snow tonight. My son is looking forward to finally being able to go sleding, and of course no school. For us big kids we don't like the snow as much, however we would not mind having a day off either.

Father of slain teen urges McCain to speak against gun violence (9 hits)
23 Feb 2007 at 8:21pm
Before his daughter was shot to death in an Arizona parking lot last Sunday, Ronald Schiffman never considered himself a political person. Now he says he might be ready for a change.
HOV cheater says dummy companion 'just a goof' (8 hits)
23 Feb 2007 at 9:40pm
The passenger in the carpool lane looked odd.
State probes jail suicide (6 hits)
23 Feb 2007 at 7:59pm
No one saw any sign that Ymbert Santos, an Amityville man awaiting trial on a murder charge, might take his own life in jail — not when he was captured by Suffolk homicide detectives, who tracked him down in the Dominican Republic; not when he arrived at the Suffolk County jail in Riverhead in November; and not since.
Baldwin woman killed in DWI crash (9 hits)
23 Feb 2007 at 9:57pm
A woman making a left turn in Hicksville was killed when her car was struck by a black Ford Expedition driven by a man police said was driving drunk.
Frantic search ends after Haitian woman's 13-hour trek (6 hits)
23 Feb 2007 at 8:49pm
Lucie Jean-Baptiste knew she was going to be all right. She was walking to church, after all, so God would be with her.

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Torn between slain children and the men who killed them (9 hits)
21 Feb 2007 at 9:42pm
Desi Lainez arrived in court one morning to be sentenced to 11 1/2 years in prison for punching his girlfriend's 2-year-old son Luis Moreira in the stomach so hard that he bled to death.
LI man killed in underground explosion (7 hits)
22 Feb 2007 at 10:17am
Waterbury police have identified the electrical contractor killed in an underground transformer explosion Wednesday afternoon.
Ruling coming in school service dog ban (6 hits)
22 Feb 2007 at 8:45am
A U.S. District Court judge is expected to rule Thursday on whether a deaf Westbury boy can bring his assistance dog, Simba, to class at W. Tresper Clarke High School.
Pedestrian killed on Southern State (6 hits)
22 Feb 2007 at 10:44am
A female pedestrian was struck and killed Thursday morning on the westbound Southern State Parkway near Exit 18, Eagle Avenue at 5:52 a.m. — and all westbound lanes were closed until 10 a.m. for the subsequent accident investigation, State Police said.
U.S. schools suspected of inflating reading test scores (5 hits)
22 Feb 2007 at 9:31am
Twelfth-graders show no improvement in reading skills on the latest national tests, but their grades continue to climb, according to federal officials who suspect the nation's schools are inflating grades.

Bellmore teen saves 3 from icy canal (18 hits)
19 Feb 2007 at 10:22am
Thomas Rosati dashed barefoot from his home to rescue three brothers, ages 8, 10 and 16, who had fallen into icy canal

Thomas Rosati is just a regular guy. He lifts weights, he plays sports, he delivers pizzas part-time.
LI siblings find lottery luck worth millions (4 hits)
19 Feb 2007 at 11:26am
The sisters were Bedazzled. The brothers are set for life.
DWI charged in fatal 1-car accident (9 hits)
19 Feb 2007 at 12:00am
A Sayville man was killed in a one-car accident in Hauppauge early yesterday, and the driver was charged with driving while intoxicated, Suffolk County police said.
Five groped in sex spree (7 hits)
19 Feb 2007 at 12:00am
Hicksville man with prior abuse charges is held after 30-minute rampage; parents say he's mentally ill

A Hicksville man grabbed and groped four women and a young girl during a half-hour spree in parking lots and convenience stores throughout the hamlet before he was arrested, police said yesterday.
LIPA will inspect LIRR lines, substations (7 hits)
18 Feb 2007 at 7:55pm
The Long Island Power Authority will inspect all transmission lines along Long Island Rail Road tracks and all electrical substations serving the railroad, after downed wires caused major delays twice in two weeks, LIPA President and chief executive Richard Kessel said Sunday.

Drunk driver kills man after dozing off (6 hits)
17 Feb 2007 at 10:24pm
A motorist stopped on the shoulder of the Long Island Expressway in Dix Hills was killed Saturday when a drunken driver fell asleep behind the wheel and slammed into the parked car, Suffolk County police said.
Spitzer's school aid plan baffles some districts (5 hits)
18 Feb 2007 at 12:00am
As homeowners struggling to pay their tax bills, many residents of the Middle Country school district initially welcomed Gov. Eliot Spitzer's promise to pump more state money into needy districts.
Lakeview man arrested after shooting at police (8 hits)
17 Feb 2007 at 11:51pm
A Lakeview man was arrested Saturday after shooting at a car, kicking a police officer in the face, and kicking out a window frame in a police car, Nassau County police said.
Chinese New Year has extra meaning for growing segment (7 hits)
17 Feb 2007 at 9:05pm
The lunar new year beginning Sunday is but one of three such celebrations each year for Jayne Hirsch and her daughter, Rebecca.
Woman fatally hit by SUV (7 hits)
17 Feb 2007 at 6:23pm
A Baldwin woman was struck and killed by a car while crossing the street near her home, Nassau County police said Saturday.

Mourners remember Ranger killed in Iraq (7 hits)
15 Feb 2007 at 9:17pm
In one room, family and friends laughed as a photo collage splashed across a large-screen television showing Jimmy Regan trick-or-treating, blowing out candles on his second birthday and running on the lacrosse field.
Sex offenders moved from neighborhoods - by the trailer (11 hits)
16 Feb 2007 at 12:00am
Rather than dump homeless sex offenders in motels until they can find permanent housing, Suffolk officials have begun to put them in county-owned trailers that will be moved periodically around the county in an effort to better monitor them and keep them out of residential areas.
Islip man confronts brother's killer during sentencing (28 hits)
15 Feb 2007 at 8:40pm
Robert Moschinger asked Daniel Callahan to turn to him as Moschinger spoke in a Riverhead courtroom Thursday, saying he not only wanted Callahan to look at his face, but the face of the man he killed.
Parents tried to cover up teen's fatal hit-and-run (6 hits)
15 Feb 2007 at 9:38pm
A Lindenhurst teenager charged in a fatal hit-and-run of a UConn freshman Jan. 20 failed to stop because he had been drinking, according to arrest affidavits that also indicate that his parents tried to help cover up the crime.
Vincent Cioci, 44, consumer advocate (24 hits)
16 Feb 2007 at 12:00am
It was his publicity stunts, such as bringing a cow into the governor's regional office in Mineola to protest milk prices, that got most of the attention. But Vincent Cioci, who founded the Nassau-Suffolk Neighborhood Network in 1984 when he was 21, racked up a string of successes as a consumer and environmental activist.

National group offers solution to gap problem (5 hits)
14 Feb 2007 at 12:00am
A railroad industry group Tuesday proposed a shortcut that could dramatically speed up a solution to the problem of dangerous platform gaps nationwide.
Teen assault called a prank that went too far (8 hits)
13 Feb 2007 at 8:28pm
As a 13-year-old boy surrendered Tuesday on charges of assaulting a wrestling teammate by sticking a drumstick into his rectum, Nassau police said the boy insisted it was a prank that went too far.
For them, an endless love (4 hits)
13 Feb 2007 at 9:16pm
Kay and Jim Shields have been in love so long, they don't remember their first Valentine's Day together in 1930.
Video hoax provides lesson for Post student (4 hits)
13 Feb 2007 at 7:23pm
For one of the students from the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University involved in the mock hostage video that some Muslims found offensive, visiting the Islamic Center of Long Island on Sunday opened his eyes to a culture he knew little about.
Honduras immigrant tries to keep kids in U.S. (5 hits)
13 Feb 2007 at 8:34pm
Margarito Mejia fled his native Honduras after Hurricane Mitch destroyed his farming business in 1998 and eventually gained temporary legal status here. But there was no legal way to bring his children, so two years ago a relative snuck them across the U.S.-Mexico border and they reunited in Brentwood.

Three teens arrested in Hempstead stabbing (9 hits)
10 Feb 2007 at 8:37pm
Detectives have arrested three Hempstead middle school students for their roles in a stabbing attack that left a 13-year-old classmate unconscious and on life support, police said Saturday.
Arrests expected in East Meadow assault (7 hits)
10 Feb 2007 at 8:04pm
An East Meadow teenager was expected to be arrested Saturday night for allegedly sexually assaulting his wrestling teammate in what may have been a prank that went too far, Nassau police said.
Long Island burglaries in steep decline (9 hits)
11 Feb 2007 at 12:00am
A recent string of nighttime burglaries in Suffolk County masked a major trend in Long Island crime: Burglaries are in steady and steep decline, a criminological sea change caused by advances in home security, sharpening police tactics and changes in society, police and experts say.
LIRR probe to look at alert protocol (4 hits)
10 Feb 2007 at 7:50pm
When LIRR service was suspended for hours one night last month after a teenager was killed on the tracks in Queens, Gerry Bringmann remembers one thing about the conductor on his delayed train.
South Hempstead man charged after crash kills friend (22 hits)
10 Feb 2007 at 10:33pm
Michael Holmes and Samuel Demarco had been best friends since grade school in South Hempstead, when the pair used to get into trouble with their teachers.