Deficit doesn't prevent big raises in Nassau (131 hits)
18 Apr 2007 at 9:25pm
Despite predictions of a looming budget deficit in Nassau next year, County Executive Thomas Suozzi has handed out $1.1 million in pay raises and promotions to his patronage appointees, with the largest salary increase going to a former campaign worker.
Report: Crowds, not gap widths, cause LIRR injuries (97 hits)
18 Apr 2007 at 10:56pm
A state report released Wednesday found no link between the number of gap falls and the width of the gaps — finding instead that big crowds and high passenger volumes led to gap accidents at Long Island and Metro-North railroad stations.
State blasts 4 LI fire districts for sloppy spending (97 hits)
18 Apr 2007 at 11:26pm
Until recently, taxpayers in the West Islip Fire District were footing the bill for subscriptions to the Playboy channel, "Strip Night NY" and "Naked News TV" for volunteers at the firehouse.
Finnerty seeks investigation of Duke DA (91 hits)
18 Apr 2007 at 10:54pm
Collin Finnerty wants to turn the tables on the North Carolina district attorney who pursued wrongful charges against him.
Push to meet land buy target (88 hits)
19 Apr 2007 at 12:00am
Despite a strong past record on land preservation, Long Island will fail to meet targets for buying up open space and development rights unless local and state governments pick up the pace — and funding — of such efforts dramatically, according to a report to be released today by the Long Island Pine Barrens Society.

Youth minister sex abuse civil suit begins (105 hits)
16 Apr 2007 at 2:24pm
The Rev. Thomas Haggerty looked on sternly Monday morning as a lawyer accused him of turning a blind eye to a child molester who had been working as a youth minister at his East Meadow church.
Duke lacrosse players appear on '60 Minutes' (71 hits)
15 Apr 2007 at 8:06pm
Even as the North Carolina attorney general said there was insufficient evidence to pursue a criminal case against them, the three Duke lacrosse players waited to hear the one word that would end their nightmare.
LIRR probing spike in accidents (79 hits)
16 Apr 2007 at 1:42pm
A Long Island Rail Road safety committee is examining a spike in customer accidents since January, LIRR Acting President Ray Kenny said Monday.
Robber leaves credit card at crime scene (86 hits)
16 Apr 2007 at 1:21pm
A brazen robber who police tracked down after he left his credit card at the scene of the crime was ordered held Monday in the Nassau County jail $200,000 bond or $100,000 cash bail, court officials said.
Body of man found in Merrick (118 hits)
16 Apr 2007 at 2:30pm
The body of a man who police believed to be homeless was found early Monday outside residences along Preston Lane in Merrick, authorities said.

Terrier killing prompts call for pit bull ban (109 hits)
13 Apr 2007 at 8:11pm
Winston the small brown dog was a carrot fanatic who zealously guarded his Upper Brookville home against rabbits and squirrels.
Region gets ready for the storm (86 hits)
14 Apr 2007 at 7:42am
New York City and surrounding areas braced Saturday for a wallop from a winter storm well into what was supposed to be spring.
For Duke DA, it's not business as usual (65 hits)
13 Apr 2007 at 10:19pm
Hours after being humiliated on television in front of millions by North Carolina's highest prosecutor, Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong arrived to the county's judicial building on Main Street at 8:30 a.m., walked past a group of reporters crowding the hallways outside his office, stepped inside and locked the door, his administrative assistant said.
Lottery winner in a whole new ballgame (99 hits)
13 Apr 2007 at 10:11pm
Gilberto Bueno played the lottery almost every day for 17 years, dreaming of a fortune that would bring an end to his nights stocking shelves in a Key Food supermarket in Queens.
CA to pursue civil claim against Wang (77 hits)
13 Apr 2007 at 11:25pm
Charles Wang, the co-founder and former chairman of Computer Associates, directed and participated in the massive $2.2-billion accounting fraud at the company, according to a blistering report issued late Friday by a committee of outside directors of the company now known as CA.

LI student at Iona College found dead (88 hits)
12 Apr 2007 at 9:15am
A 19-year-old Iona College student from Long Island, who police said had a medical condition which they would not detail, was found dead in his dorm room on Wednesday morning by his roommates in his on-campus dorm.
Report: Lax permit review for water polluters (77 hits)
12 Apr 2007 at 12:55am
New York state's environmental agency is violating the federal Clean Water Act by allowing facilities that discharge into state waters to go decades without thorough permit review, according to a report issued Thursday by a state environmental advocacy group.
Rain Thursday, more to come this weekend (77 hits)
12 Apr 2007 at 9:58am
It's raining outside — and generally miserable. The roads are jammed with morning rush-hour delays. And the weather Thursday has also had an effect on the big local airports, already causing delays of more than an hour.
Famed journo tells students to "dig, dig, dig" (68 hits)
12 Apr 2007 at 1:31pm
Bob Woodward, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist of Watergate fame and beyond, stressed to Stony Brook University journalism students Thursday that they strive for journalism's "ideal" of finding out "exactly what happened," by continuing to "dig, dig, dig."
LIRR gap fall at Syosset station (89 hits)
11 Apr 2007 at 8:31pm
A 73-year-old Queens Village woman Wednesday morning was the latest victim of the notorious gap at the Syosset Long Island Rail Road station.

Man who shot officer in 1971 gets 1 to 3 years (81 hits)
10 Apr 2007 at 1:39pm
A fugitive arrested in 2005 for the shooting of an unarmed Stony Brook University police officer more than 35 years ago was sentenced Tuesday to 1 to 3 years in prison.
Nassau wants to mount cameras at red lights (92 hits)
10 Apr 2007 at 3:01pm
The corner of Merrick Avenue and Old Country Road in Westbury is the most dangerous in Nassau County and would become vastly safer with a red-light camera, County Executive Thomas Suozzi said Tuesday.
Nassau's county wheels being used by many (68 hits)
9 Apr 2007 at 11:08pm
Nassau's Off-Track betting agency provides take-home cars and free gas to 17 employees, including some Democratic Party operatives, according to a report by the Legislature's fiscal watchdog.
Cops kill pit bull, arrest owner on drug charges (104 hits)
10 Apr 2007 at 4:27pm
An East Meadow man unwilling to accept a ticket for an unlicensed pit bull was arrested on assault charges after he released the dog on two officers, causing them to shoot and kill the animal, police said Tuesday.
Wednesday deadline for Suffolk police exam (87 hits)
10 Apr 2007 at 1:18pm
Want to become a police officer?

Part-time board members get big-time benefits (117 hits)
8 Apr 2007 at 11:08pm
Katuria D'Amato, wife of former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, gets free family health insurance as a member of the part-time Hempstead Zoning Board of Appeals.
Islanders fans stunned, elated by win (92 hits)
8 Apr 2007 at 10:36pm
Even for die-hard local fans, the New York Islanders' dramatic Easter Sunday clinch of a final National Hockey League playoff berth seemed touched by something other-worldly.
Shoreham resident killed in crash (103 hits)
8 Apr 2007 at 9:14pm
A Shoreham arborist was killed when he lost control of his pickup truck and crashed into a fence in Rocky Point, police said.
Island Park blaze injures one (69 hits)
8 Apr 2007 at 9:12pm
Fire officials are investigating a predawn blaze Sunday in Island Park that left one resident injured with burns.
Two assaulted in Manorhaven (106 hits)
8 Apr 2007 at 8:20pm
A man followed a group of friends home early Saturday in Manorhaven, then punched two of them in the face and threatened them with a gun, Nassau police said.

A martial thwart (108 hits)
6 Apr 2007 at 12:00am
Teen uses karate he learned from dad to ward off 4 attackers carrying crowbars at Smith Haven Mall

They were taller, older, stood four abreast and carried crowbars.
Good Friday reenactment in Central Islip (78 hits)
6 Apr 2007 at 3:46pm
Jesus Christ walked down Carleton Avenue in Central Islip Friday, carrying a cross as Roman guards shouted "cobarde!" and "Rey de los Judios, salvate!" - "Coward!" and "King of the Jews, save yourself!"
Westbury man arraigned on fake check charges (98 hits)
6 Apr 2007 at 3:20pm
A Westbury man was arraigned Friday on charges alleging that he tried to steal $47,000 from a man trying to sell a house, authorities said.
Outrage flows over Spykes (95 hits)
6 Apr 2007 at 12:00am
WASHINGTON - Campaigners against underage drinking have condemned a new cheap, small and colorful alcoholic drink they say is targeted at teenagers, and are writing to local retailers asking them not to sell it.
Fluid cleanup in Port Washington marshlands (72 hits)
6 Apr 2007 at 1:23pm
Crews from LIPA and the DEC Friday continued the clean up of some 30,000 gallons of a mineral oil-like fluid that seeped into marshlands adjacent to Hempstead Harbor in Port Washington after a crew drilling in the area struck an underground high-voltage power line, officials said.

For LI businesses, visa snag could be summer bummer (48 hits)
4 Apr 2007 at 10:03pm
Year after year, Dune Management depends on dozens of Dominican and Jamaican housekeeping and laundry workers to get through the summer season in the Hamptons.
LIRR shrinks gaps at end-of-line stations (50 hits)
4 Apr 2007 at 10:16pm
The Long Island Rail Road is shrinking gaps at most of its end-of-the-line stations to 5 inches — 2 inches less than the railroad industry's minimum gap standard.
Leg washed ashore in Nassau match torso found in Westchester (62 hits)
4 Apr 2007 at 9:50pm
The leg washed ashore on Nassau County's North Shore last week and a woman's torso found weeks earlier off the coast of Mamaroneck in Westchester County share the same DNA, authorities said Wednesday.
Woman agrees to $800K settlement with grandkids whose mom was killed (71 hits)
4 Apr 2007 at 3:21pm
The mother of a Merrick man imprisoned for hacking his wife to death with a meat cleaver 11 years ago settled a civil lawsuit with her grandchildren for $800,000 on Wednesday.
Hundreds mourn LI man killed in Hawaii crash (66 hits)
4 Apr 2007 at 9:02pm
Hundreds turned out Wednesday to mourn John O'Donnell, the East Rockaway man killed in a helicopter crash last month in Hawaii while celebrating his 25th wedding anniversary.

Suspect in parents' homicide faced eviction (68 hits)
2 Apr 2007 at 10:36pm
Accountant Grace Thorpe wanted her jobless 20-year-old son out of her Elmont home. They had argued often about his lack of ambition, police say, and she was growing tired of his lack of respect.
Audit finds $6.4M deficit, possible fraud, in district budget (59 hits)
2 Apr 2007 at 10:22pm
The Patchogue-Medford school district is running a $6.4 million budget deficit, according to a new report from the state comptroller's office that also finds the district has virtually no documentation to support up to $4.1 million in "potentially fraudulent transactions."
Accident cleared on LIE, delays remain (65 hits)
3 Apr 2007 at 7:35am
A pre-dawn tractor-trailer accident that had traffic snarled for miles on the westbound Long Island Expressway was cleared at 7:06 a.m. Tuesday, New York State Department of Transportation officials said.
Lawmakers mull $2 cigarette tax (54 hits)
2 Apr 2007 at 11:33pm
It may not be long before cigarettes are just as expensive on Long Island as they are in New York City.
NYPD recruit guilty in murder-for-hire plot (70 hits)
2 Apr 2007 at 9:37pm
Sherry Nohar's testimony in support of the man who was caught on tape plotting her murder mattered little to jurors, "because she wasn't there," they said moments after convicting the former New York City Police recruit on conspiracy charges Monday.

Not guilty pleas in UConn hit-and-run (71 hits)
30 Mar 2007 at 9:05pm
Moments after a Lindenhurst teen pleaded not guilty to a slew of felony charges stemming from a hit-and-run accident that killed a University of Connecticut freshman in January, his attorney said Anthony Alvino and his parents had "heartfelt sympathy" for the family of the dead girl.
Doughnut prank yields criminal charges for teens (83 hits)
30 Mar 2007 at 10:17pm
Deanna Tarasco didn't think twice before reaching into the big box of doughnuts her friends brought to Sequoya Middle School in Holtsville and taking a bite of a chocolate frosted with sprinkles.
Southampton to have day laborer hiring site (38 hits)
30 Mar 2007 at 9:34pm
The Village of Southampton will help establish the fourth formal hiring center for day laborers on Long Island, in a local spot where many workers gather waiting for employment, Mayor Mark Epley announced Friday.
Three LI colleges reach deals in kickback probe (46 hits)
30 Mar 2007 at 8:00pm
Three Long Island colleges confirmed late Friday they have received "settlement agreements" from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who has been investigating what he has called "kickbacks" from student loan providers to colleges.
Chief remains on job (55 hits)
30 Mar 2007 at 12:00am
Indicted officer, accused of beating NJ tourist in '05, is still on Ocean Beach's village payroll

Acting Police Chief George Hesse is continuing to work in Ocean Beach despite his indictment this week for felony assault in 2005 of a tourist accused of littering, officials said.

Cops: Suffolk soccer coach had sex with teen-ager (81 hits)
29 Mar 2007 at 11:53am
The Suffolk Community College women's soccer coach was arrested Wednesday for having what police called "a sexual relationship" with a 15-year-old girl.
Southampton house fire kills 35 dogs, cats (59 hits)
29 Mar 2007 at 9:21am
A house fire in Southampton Wednesday night killed at least 35 cats and dogs owned by the woman living there, Southampton Town Police said.
Lack of headlights leads to larceny arrest (36 hits)
29 Mar 2007 at 12:54am
Don't do the crime if you can't remember to drive the getaway car with your headlights on in the middle of the night.
Severed limbs wash up in two locations (59 hits)
28 Mar 2007 at 9:29pm
Severed human legs were found washed up in two locations on the North Shore over the past two days, including on a private beach belonging to Cablevision Systems chief James Dolan, and police believe they may match a headless torso found almost a month ago across Long Island Sound.
High-rise residents battle another one across street (55 hits)
29 Mar 2007 at 12:00am
Residents of a six-story beachfront high-rise in Long Beach are trying to block the construction of a six-story high-rise across the street, where small homes now predominate.

Ocean Beach chief, cops in court on assault charges (68 hits)
27 Mar 2007 at 1:25pm
Four members of the Ocean Beach Police Department, including the acting chief, were arraigned Tuesday morning in connection with what prosecutors say was the brutal beating of a New Jersey man in police custody in 2005.
Bohemia fire victim dies (50 hits)
27 Mar 2007 at 12:02am
The 46-year-old Bohemia woman critically burned in a house fire earlier this month died of her injuries late Monday night, Suffolk Police said.
Islanders' DiPietro out tonight, maybe longer (66 hits)
27 Mar 2007 at 12:23am
The Islanders' tenuous playoff hopes might just have suffered a crippling blow. Goaltender Rick DiPietro has been ruled out of tonight's game against the Devils and goaltender Martin Brodeur, who has yielded one goal in the past three meetings with the Isles.
Suffolk DA sends warning letter to fire districts (65 hits)
26 Mar 2007 at 8:43pm
In wake of arrests, Thomas Spota calls for more auditing and a better system of documenting the use of taxpayer money.

The warning letter Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota sent to all county fire districts began arriving in mail boxes this week, but fire officials said the better-run districts already do what Spota says they should do when handling taxpayer funds.
Police eye drivers passing school buses (51 hits)
27 Mar 2007 at 9:15am
Red means stop.

Police: Both drivers drunk in Selden head-on crash (84 hits)
25 Mar 2007 at 8:45pm
One car was headed north, the other sped south.
To pump or not to pump in Huntington (54 hits)
26 Mar 2007 at 12:00am
John Grillo, of Melville, says he likes the service he gets from a full-service gas station.
Brentwood man killed crossing street (50 hits)
25 Mar 2007 at 11:11pm
A Brentwood man crossing the street in Bay Shore was struck and killed by a motorist Saturday, Suffolk police said.
Budget cuts could reduce staff at NUMC (60 hits)
26 Mar 2007 at 12:00am
About 60 department heads from Nassau University Medical Center filed into the hospital auditorium for a budget update.
Pilot's historic journey stops on Long Island (60 hits)
25 Mar 2007 at 11:16pm
Barrington Irving, a Jamaican-born pilot, traveled from Cleveland to Long Island yesterday, the second stop of a journey that would make him the youngest pilot and the first black to fly solo around the world.

Effects of tainted pet food can be long-term (85 hits)
22 Mar 2007 at 5:50pm
If your cat or dog ate any of the pet foods recalled last week by Ontario-based Menu Foods and isn't showing any dramatic symptoms of kidney failure — including vomiting, refusal to eat, lethargy or increased drinking or urination — that doesn't necessarily mean you are out of the woods, veterinarians warn.
Soldier killed weeks after return from Iraq (91 hits)
22 Mar 2007 at 10:06pm
Paul Hawkes, a U.S. Air Force security expert, returned to Bay Shore from Iraq less than two weeks ago after managing to survive the shelling, guns and chronic threats of life in a war zone.
Fatal helicopter crash pilot reported power loss (69 hits)
23 Mar 2007 at 4:22pm
In the minutes before a tour helicopter crashed in Hawaii earlier this month, killing a Long Island man and three others, the pilot radioed he was having "hydraulic problems" and then "hydraulic failure," according to a preliminary report released Friday by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Swastika painted on Valley Stream synagogue (74 hits)
23 Mar 2007 at 3:15pm
Vandals spray-painted a swastika on a glass-enclosed bulletin board outside a Valley Stream synagogue and Jewish outreach center, Rabbi Yitzchak Goldshmid said.
Glen Cove OKs fines up to $50K for cutting trees (83 hits)
23 Mar 2007 at 8:55am
Glen Cove officials have amended the city's tree ordinance to raise penalties significantly for felling trees without a permit.

Eight fire and ambulance officials arrested (64 hits)
21 Mar 2007 at 12:00am
A year-long criminal probe of Suffolk fire and ambulance districts yielded a parade of suspects in handcuffs Tuesday, all accused of plundering public funds in a "pattern of thievery" District Attorney Thomas Spota called "shameful."
McDonald wins in upset for Malverne mayor (75 hits)
21 Mar 2007 at 12:00am
Paralyzed cop s wife wins by a wide margin over the incumbent; 18 villages across LI had contested races

Patti Ann McDonald chose to return to Malverne two decades ago to care for her husband, a New York City police officer shot and paralyzed in the line of duty.
Police: Teen was abducted, handcuffed to tree (72 hits)
21 Mar 2007 at 1:10pm
A teenaged boy was apparently abducted on his way to school Wednesday morning on Staten Island and handcuffed to a tree by the abductor, New York City Police said.
Average gas prices up again on LI (74 hits)
21 Mar 2007 at 11:39am
The average price of regular gasoline on Long Island rose another 3 cents a gallon this past week, continuing an upward trend that began in mid-February. Average home-heating oil prices rose slightly.
LIRR president welcomes new security initiative to patrol trains (82 hits)
21 Mar 2007 at 11:44am
Saying there is "no current threat" to the rail road, but admitting it remains an "open system," acting Long Island Rail Road president Ray Kenny said he welcomed a new security initiative that will deploy teams of federal security officers — including air marshals and certified canine teams — to patrol trains.

'Amityville' Director Rosenberg Dies (78 hits)
19 Mar 2007 at 3:46pm
Cops: Vault teller stole $90K from bank (78 hits)
19 Mar 2007 at 3:51pm
When a West Hempstead bank branch came up $90,000 short, Nassau police determined it was an inside job, arresting an employee who worked in the vault.
Brentwood launches media blitz for firefighters (82 hits)
19 Mar 2007 at 1:50pm
Steve Levy joined members of the Brentwood Fire District on Monday to kick-off the department's newest recruiting measure and to ask residents to join the ranks of volunteers.
Mom, 3 children escape Bohemia blaze (65 hits)
19 Mar 2007 at 8:43am
A mother of three was critically burned in a house fire late Sunday night in Bohemia.
Crowded St. Patrick's party a bust (78 hits)
19 Mar 2007 at 12:00am
Five Stony Brook students, including rugby team members, charged with serving alcohol to minors

Members of Stony Brook University's rugby club are in trouble with the Suffolk County police, after allegedly serving alcohol to minors at a St. Patrick's Day party they hosted in Port Jefferson on Saturday evening.

Violent confrontation ends with suicide (41 hits)
16 Mar 2007 at 9:00pm
A longstanding friendship ended violently when a man held a gun to his neighbor's throat minutes before his own wife killed herself with a second handgun, police said.
Man shot in his Central Islip home (37 hits)
17 Mar 2007 at 10:11am
A 24-year-old Central Islip man was shot in the leg early Saturday morning when two armed men barged into his home and demanded cash, say Suffolk police.
Attack on three sisters leaves one dead (44 hits)
16 Mar 2007 at 7:38pm
No valuables were taken. There was no sexual assault. There is no apparent motive.
Roosevelt schools miss a payment (33 hits)
16 Mar 2007 at 9:05pm
Despite intense monitoring by state authorities, the Roosevelt school district has missed a loan-interest payment of nearly $20,000 and is legally required to notify potential investors of the lapse, Albany officials report.
Police: Driver failed sobriety test, left children home alone (40 hits)
16 Mar 2007 at 9:25am
The man involved in an accident on Route 110 in Melville late Thursday failed a field sobriety test, police said. But what he told them next was of even greater concern.

Woman says cop asked for sexual favor (57 hits)
15 Mar 2007 at 8:04pm
There was nothing wrong with her blinker.
Trial starts in ex-gang member's slaying (44 hits)
15 Mar 2007 at 8:58pm
Hykiem Coney's family members dabbed tears from their eyes Thursday as they watched a surveillance video that showed the last moments of Coney's life.
Bill to protect soldiers' credit (45 hits)
15 Mar 2007 at 8:00pm
The Defense department would stand between servicemembers and their creditors, under a bill to be introduced by Rep. Steve Israel that is designed to protect deployed soldiers from harassing creditors, rising interest rates and repossession.
Controversial anti-loitering bill moves on (44 hits)
15 Mar 2007 at 1:35pm
A Suffolk legislative committee Thursday morning narrowly approved sending a controversial anti-loitering bill aimed at immigrant workers to the full legislature for a vote Tuesday.
Keeping guns out of the wrong hands (42 hits)
15 Mar 2007 at 9:45pm
Danielle Baker was only 14 years old when she was killed in a shooting at a birthday party in North Amityville in April.

Swingers indicted on grand larceny charges (43 hits)
13 Mar 2007 at 1:21pm
The Long Island couple who allegedly trolled a "swingers" Web site for partners, videotaped them having sex and then blackmailed them to keep the tapes secret was indicted Tuesday on grand larceny charges.
LI jury rejects teacher's $2 million witch claim (56 hits)
13 Mar 2007 at 3:07pm
A federal jury quickly returned with a verdict Tuesday against a former reading specialist who contended the principal at the Hampton Bays school where she worked denied her tenure because he falsely believed she was a witch.
Thief steals from 'Jerry's kids,' runs out of gas (40 hits)
13 Mar 2007 at 4:17pm
A Coram man was arrested Tuesday morning for swiping a "Jerry's kids" collection bin from the counter of a Huntington Station 7-Eleven store, Suffolk police said.
Report: Huntington chamber bilked the state (41 hits)
13 Mar 2007 at 1:34pm
Huntington's Chamber of Commerce bilked the state economic development agency by double-billing on grants, claiming it purchased computers it never bought and taking money for Melville office space for a program that never got off the ground, a new state comptroller report revealed Tuesday.
State takes aim on Roosevelt's $12M deficit (31 hits)
13 Mar 2007 at 5:55pm
The state's top education official announced Tuesday a series of actions to reduce the Roosevelt school district's projected $12 million budget deficit.

LI eyes more school aid (38 hits)
11 Mar 2007 at 10:06pm
Nearly three-quarters of Long Island homeowners would get tax breaks under Gov. Eliot Spitzer's school-finance proposals, while wealthier residents and businesses would see rates go up, according to a new report from regional business and education groups.
Port Jeff man dies during yard work (46 hits)
11 Mar 2007 at 10:11pm
A Port Jefferson Station man was killed yesterday in his family's backyard when a tree he was trying to bulldoze jutted inside his machine's cab, crushing him, Suffolk police said.
Irish eyes smile on Rocky Point parade (41 hits)
11 Mar 2007 at 10:27pm
After the floats and bagpipes were gone and green ticker tape littered the streets at yesterday's St. Patrick's Day parade in Miller Place, one thing kept the celebration going: good weather.
Carbon monoxide ends Great Neck party early (47 hits)
11 Mar 2007 at 10:39pm
High levels of carbon monoxide forced the evacuation early yesterday of hundreds of guests celebrating Irish heritage at an annual ballroom dance in Great Neck after dozens of them fell ill, authorities said.
5 robbed at gunpoint in Hempstead (43 hits)
11 Mar 2007 at 12:00am
Five people were robbed at gunpoint outside their Hempstead home early Sunday morning, Nassau police said.

Jury finds 'Most Wanted' husband guilty (51 hits)
9 Mar 2007 at 9:19pm
Three hours was all it took for a Nassau jury Friday to decide that Stanley Osbourne was guilty of first-degree assault for attacking his estranged wife in a wooded part of Kings Point.
Nassau DA to probe Simon incident (40 hits)
9 Mar 2007 at 4:15pm
The Nassau County prosecutors have opened a preliminary probe into whether Islander Chris Simon committed a crime Thursday night when he decked a Ranger player in the face with his hockey stick, a spokesman said.
GOP leaders say guv should pick top school official (44 hits)
9 Mar 2007 at 10:41pm
As the Roosevelt superintendent and school board president met with the state Education Commissioner Friday in Albany to discuss how to close a projected $12 million budget deficit, Senate Republicans proposed shifting the power to select the commissioner from the Board of Regents to the governor.
Arrest made in October shooting of teen (37 hits)
9 Mar 2007 at 10:38pm
The man charged with killing a Rosedale teenager who was shot in the back as he tried to scale a fence last October insisted Friday that he had nothing to do with the crime, as he was led to court.
Teen faces assault charges for hitting ranger with ATV (45 hits)
9 Mar 2007 at 9:13pm
A 16-year-old Coram boy has pleaded not guilty to felony assault and other charges after officials say he struck a forest ranger with his all-terrain vehicle when the officer tried to stop him from riding illegally on state-managed land.

Arrest ends probe into teen's overdose (64 hits)
7 Mar 2007 at 9:42pm
When Joseph Devine died after ingesting a combination of Xanax, heroin and alcohol, he left behind two devastated parents and five siblings who struggled to comprehend how the quiet, good-humored honor student with no known history of drug abuse could have left them so suddenly.
Botched robbery was years in planning (34 hits)
7 Mar 2007 at 10:25pm
The plan to steal cash from a wealthy Upper Brookville woman was four years in the making before a three-man robbery team tried to pull off the heist earlier this week, investigators said Wednesday.
Accused witch says rumors cost her teaching job (30 hits)
7 Mar 2007 at 9:31pm
No one at Hampton Bays Elementary School thought former teacher Lauren Berrios cast spells, but rather that she told disturbing and conflicting stories, a lawyer for the school district told jurors in federal court Wednesday.
It's not Mega, but LI man wins Lotto millions (33 hits)
7 Mar 2007 at 9:53pm
No, it's not the Mega Millions prize, but a winning Lotto ticket for $34.5 million is no small haul for the Mikkin family of Hauppauge.
Legislator apologizes for 'gun' comment (33 hits)
7 Mar 2007 at 9:26pm
Calling it "a bad joke in bad taste," Suffolk Legis. Elie Mystal apologized again Wednesday for saying at a legislative hearing that he "would load up my gun and start shooting" if large groups of day laborers congregated in his neighborhood.

Son of top cop gets life for Virginia murder (36 hits)
5 Mar 2007 at 4:05pm
The son of a top Nassau police official was sentenced Monday to life in prison plus 5 years for the slaying of a Virginia woman seven years ago.
Elmont basketball coach "was a gift to us all" (38 hits)
5 Mar 2007 at 2:41pm
As pallbearers wheeled the coffin of fallen Elmont Memorial High School girls basketball coach Gregg Petrocelli out of St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Church Monday afternoon in Hauppauge, mourners in the overflow crowd dabbed their eyes and quiet sobs were muffled by the "Amazing Grace" played by an organist and accompanied by a female soloist.
Suozzi under fire for hiring during freeze (27 hits)
5 Mar 2007 at 4:45pm
The leader of Nassau's Republican county legislators Monday called for an investigation into County Executive Thomas Suozzi's moving of five former campaign aides onto the county payroll during a hiring freeze.
Reforms for Hempstead building dept. (39 hits)
5 Mar 2007 at 5:16pm
Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray Monday announced reforms in the town building department and a nationwide search to replace the recently disgraced building commissioner who resigned amid revelations that he remodeled his house without permits.
North Amityville man shot to death (37 hits)
5 Mar 2007 at 2:13pm
A 26-year-old North Amityville man was shot to death in his girlfriend's apartment Sunday night, Suffolk County police said.

Suozzi added campaign workers to county payroll (24 hits)
3 Mar 2007 at 10:13pm
Although Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi announced a hiring freeze more than a year ago to offset looming budget deficits, he quietly moved five workers from his failed campaign for governor onto the county payroll after he lost September's Democratic primary.
Elmont players: His lessons transcended sport (23 hits)
4 Mar 2007 at 12:00am
Former Elmont basketball players Maryam Greenidge and Olivia Worley laughed and finished each others' sentences Saturday as they recalled their time with their fresh-faced young coach.
No faith in Jesus film (21 hits)
3 Mar 2007 at 9:41pm
When they attend church Sunday, local Christians aren't likely to hear much about a controversial new film that claims Jesus was buried, but not raised from the dead.
NY man faces sentence for 2000 murder (22 hits)
3 Mar 2007 at 8:16pm
The son of a top Nassau police official is to be sentenced Monday after being convicted of first-degree murder and defiling a corpse in a 7-year-old Virginia case.
Drowning victim remembered as hero, friend (39 hits)
3 Mar 2007 at 8:53pm
In his eulogy of Eric Reistetter Saturday, a childhood friend recalled how the pair would often play street hockey while growing up.

Toddler pulled from LIRR gap (24 hits)
1 Mar 2007 at 9:28am
The Long Island Rail Road said it has been "aggressively" narrowing gaps at its stations to protect riders from falling through dangerous gaps between the platforms and train cars.
Judge revokes bail, postpones sentencing for driver in priest's death (22 hits)
1 Mar 2007 at 8:48pm
The plea deal Karen Fisher struck two weeks ago in exchange for her commitment to stay sober could be at risk amid new allegations that she was recently kicked out of a rehab center after being caught drinking again.
Nassau faces $164M budget gap (23 hits)
1 Mar 2007 at 1:56pm
Nassau faces a budget gap of $164 million for the its 2008 budget and will have to raise taxes or cut services to close it, county Comptroller Howard Weitzman said at a news conference Wednesday.
Store defends teacher accused of sex assault (40 hits)
1 Mar 2007 at 8:35pm
For 21 years, Nicholas Panos has given piano lessons in a basement studio at the Three Village Music Shoppe in East Setauket.
LI detective helps case for accused soldier (38 hits)
1 Mar 2007 at 9:07pm
When Nassau County Det. Richard Brusa got a call for help in investigating a fatal crash, it was way out of his jurisdiction but right up his alley.

Elmont coach collapses and dies during game (78 hits)
27 Feb 2007 at 11:41pm
Gregg Petrocelli, 38, was coaching his Elmont High School girls basketball team when he collapsed courtside on Tuesday.

Elmont High School's girls basketball coach Gregg Petrocelli died late Tuesday night after collapsing suddenly at a game.
Judge's rape sentencing draws ire (48 hits)
27 Feb 2007 at 8:55pm
The female victim in the vicious robbery and sexual assault of a young couple in Bay Shore said Tuesday that a judge's decision on how to punish two of her attackers made her feel like a victim "all over again."
LI counties sue to preserve AIDS funding (40 hits)
27 Feb 2007 at 10:11pm
Facing AIDS funding cuts that could reach into millions of dollars, Nassau and Suffolk counties filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Tuesday to halt the cuts and preserve use of the money for support services beyond core medical needs.
Family vows to press case in service dog fight (59 hits)
27 Feb 2007 at 10:32pm
A deaf Westbury teenager was distraught Tuesday after a judge ruled that his service dog, Simba, must stay home when the boy goes to school.
Building chief resigns after skipping permits (49 hits)
28 Feb 2007 at 12:00am
Embattled Hempstead Buildings Commissioner John Loeffel resigned Tuesday, on the same day town inspectors discovered an illegal apartment in the Levittown home he renovated without the required permits.

Here we snow again (47 hits)
25 Feb 2007 at 10:31pm
Long Islanders can expect a messy commute Monday morning as overnight storm expected to blanket area

Expect some snow and slush to go with that Monday morning coffee.
Mummified man was difficult, but loved (68 hits)
26 Feb 2007 at 12:00am
At 1:13 p.m. on Feb. 15, Johanna Nemeth's 3-year-old beagle mix, Hazel, strayed onto Vincenzo Riccardi's property. Nemeth called police because she saw a sheet of ice cascading down the front of the house and suspected a burst water main. When police broke down the door, Riccardi was seated in his patterned lounge chair beside his outdated 9-inch television set, which blared only static. His death made worldwide news — though most reports gave his last name, inaccurately, as Ricardo. From India to Los Angeles, people wondered how a 70-year-old man's death could have gone unnoticed.
He saves man from icy harbor (43 hits)
26 Feb 2007 at 12:00am
When a rogue wave swept Neil Maycock out to sea 37 years ago, only the bravery of a passing stranger saved the then-3-year-old boy's life.
After resigning, he still plays cop (29 hits)
26 Feb 2007 at 12:00am
A former New York City police officer was behind bars Sunday after he pulled over two civilians while in his darkly tinted Chevrolet TrailBlazer, which he had outfitted with flashing lights, while proclaiming to be from the State Department, Nassau County police said.
Cops working to ID crash victim (56 hits)
26 Feb 2007 at 12:00am
Investigators said Sunday they were using dental records to identify the burnt remains of a man killed in a weekend car accident on the Southern State Parkway.

Father of slain teen urges McCain to speak against gun violence (24 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' (27 hits)
23 Feb 2007 at 9:40pm
The passenger in the carpool lane looked odd.
State probes jail suicide (24 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 (27 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 (24 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.

Torn between slain children and the men who killed them (29 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 (25 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 (23 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 (24 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 (23 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 (36 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 (23 hits)
19 Feb 2007 at 11:26am
The sisters were Bedazzled. The brothers are set for life.
DWI charged in fatal 1-car accident (39 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 (25 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 (29 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 (24 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 (26 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 (24 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 (28 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 (27 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 (28 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 (39 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 (51 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 (25 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 (67 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 (26 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 (24 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 (26 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 (22 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. (20 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 (24 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 (24 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 (30 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 (24 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 (52 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.

LIRR owns up to gap woes (24 hits)
9 Feb 2007 at 12:00am
For the first time Thursday, Long Island Rail Road officials quantified the extent of their gap problem: The space between platforms and trains exceeds 10 inches on 32 platforms at 22 LIRR stations, and officials expect to spend more than $13 million fixing them.
Former Brookhaven official faces money laundering charges (26 hits)
9 Feb 2007 at 12:01am
His son pleaded guilty in 2004 to accepting bribes while working as a senior plumbing inspector for the Town of Brookhaven.
Fatal stabbing in Hewlett home (25 hits)
9 Feb 2007 at 12:00am
A woman was found stabbed to death and a man critically injured in a Hewlett apartment early yesterday.
Man busted for firing off gun in home (25 hits)
9 Feb 2007 at 11:20am
A Manorhaven man was arrested Thursday for allegedly firing several rounds from a handgun and a rifle through the ceiling of his residence, Nassau police said Friday.
Man arrested for spraying teen with mace (26 hits)
9 Feb 2007 at 11:07am
A Levittown man was arrested Thursday for allegedly spraying mace in the face of a teenager in an apparent case of road rage on Hempstead Turnpike in Bethpage last month, Nassau police said Friday.

Johnson seat seen going to ally (22 hits)
7 Feb 2007 at 8:22pm
A political ally of Nassau Legis. Craig Johnson is expected to win his 11th District seat, which has been held by a Democrat even since the years when Republicans dominated the legislature.
LIRR: Protocol followed during track shutdown (22 hits)
7 Feb 2007 at 9:14pm
Long Island Rail Road officials say they followed communication protocols during a widespread delay Friday when up to 100 passengers frustrated by a lack of information climbed off trains and onto the tracks near Valley Stream.
Muslim leaders condemn CW Post video (20 hits)
7 Feb 2007 at 10:12pm
A video by five students at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University depicting ski-masked "hostage-takers" speaking in cartoonish Middle Eastern accents has drawn condemnations from local Muslim leaders.
Man charged with impersonating police (30 hits)
7 Feb 2007 at 11:53pm
He called himself "Sergeant Terry" and didn't hesitate to bring suspects back to the Hempstead office he rented and outfitted to look like a police unit. He filed incident reports and logbooks, so meticulously documenting his activities that he once copied the five $20 bills one "offender" paid as a fine in exchange for a criminal reprieve, law enforcement officials and neighbors said.
Levy vows to "hold line" on taxes, study cancer risks (22 hits)
7 Feb 2007 at 7:05pm
In his election-year state of the county message, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy on Wednesday night vowed to hold the line on county general property taxes in 2008, touted his record of "smart management," and proposed measures to study environmental links to cancer, limit use of fertilizers, and create a credit-card reward program for taxpayers.

Two dead, one wounded in Medford robbery gone awry (29 hits)
3 Feb 2007 at 8:53pm
Two men were shot dead and a third man was wounded late Friday in a gun battle after a confrontation over marijuana stashed in a Medford home, Suffolk cops said.
Johnson, O'Connell trade barbs before race (25 hits)
4 Feb 2007 at 12:00am
The two candidates for Nassau County's 7th Senate District seat rallied their troops for the final hours of campaigning before Tuesday's special election, sending thousands of volunteers to knock on doors and ratcheting up the closely watched race's heated rhetoric.
Police: Man dabbled in many crimes (31 hits)
3 Feb 2007 at 8:31pm
Michael Casanova worked at Aircraft Protective Systems for less than a year and told police he "did a little bit of everything."
Shirley man hit by car; driver charged (27 hits)
3 Feb 2007 at 8:20pm
A man police said was driving drunk and without a license struck and killed a retired MTA booth operator as he crossed William Floyd Parkway in Shirley on foot Friday night.
Stolen items returned, two women arrested in Farmingdale (26 hits)
4 Feb 2007 at 12:00am
Hours after two women robbed a 54-year-old woman of her purse and a shopping bag full of clothes and jewelry in Farmingdale, they were caught and arrested, Nassau police said Saturday. At 9:15 Friday night, the shopper had just entered her parked car in the lot of a Walgreen's store on Main Street, when a woman opened the passenger door, grabbed the victim's arm and demanded her purse, police spokesman Officer Michael Toich said. A second female then opened the driver's side door and grabbed the victim's purse. They also took a JCPenney shopping bag with clothes and jewelry. The victim called 911 and described her attackers, police said. About a half-hour later, Eighth Precinct Officers Michael Bjornstad and John Christie found Cynthia M. Lambert, 19, of 62 Grant St., South Farmingdale; and Ashakei B. Croft, 20, of 134 Davidson St., Wyandanch, parked in a 1996 Dodge Neon at Saxon Road and Paula Drive in South Farmingdale. All of the stolen items were with them and later returned to the victim, police said. Lambert and Croft were charged with second-degree robbery. Both pleaded not guilty at the arraignments in First District Court in Hempstead Saturday. Croft was released on the condition that she report frequently to a probation officer while Lambert was ordered held in lieu of $750 bail.

Duo charged with extorting "swingers" (38 hits)
31 Jan 2007 at 9:40pm
A Long Island couple — who trolled a "swingers" Web site for partners — cooked up a scheme to turn their carnal fantasies into illegal profits: They secretly videotaped and photographed sex they had with consenting adults they met online and forced them to pay up or risk seeing their images in public, Nassau police said Wednesday.
MTA trying out clothing-friendly armrests (28 hits)
1 Feb 2007 at 4:08pm
Metro-North riders are rubbing elbows with a new clothing-friendly armrest — and so far, they like it.
Man found dead at Amityville LIRR station (28 hits)
1 Feb 2007 at 2:59pm
A 26-year-old man was found dead on the staircase of the Long Island Rail Road's Amityville train station Thursday morning, but police said they believe no crime was committed.
New sites to be considered for cell tower (35 hits)
1 Feb 2007 at 4:03pm
Farmingdale residents turned out Wednesday night to oppose the proposed location of a cellular telephone tower in Bethpage State Park.
Water main break disrupts LIRR (23 hits)
1 Feb 2007 at 9:16am
A water main break west of the Hempstead Gardens station knocked out service on the Long Island Rail Road's West Hempstead branch for about three hours Thursday morning.

Duo arrested for extorting "swingers" (38 hits)
31 Jan 2007 at 8:52am
With friends like these… ?
Police: Syosset murders not random (45 hits)
30 Jan 2007 at 8:18pm
The Syosset couple found by their young children shot to death in the family's two-story home were apparently targeted, but police said Tuesday that a motive for the killings remained a mystery.
Six LI students win Intel science contest (44 hits)
31 Jan 2007 at 9:45am
Normally, Rebecca Isseroff wouldn't answer her cellphone while teaching a chemistry class.
Family loses home, then their case (43 hits)
30 Jan 2007 at 8:41pm
A Deer Park couple's four-year fight to reclaim the house they lost to a crooked mortgage broker may have come to an abrupt end Tuesday when a judge dismissed their federal lawsuit.
Charge filed against teen who recorded beating (49 hits)
30 Jan 2007 at 12:06am
He was not a particant in the actual fight. But Suffolk County Police said Bryan Alomar was charged with a misdemeanor in the North Babylon schoolyard fight that has become a symbol of cyberbullying because he served as "the recorder" of events and therefore became a participant.

LIRR wants to seize up to 80 properties for third track (42 hits)
27 Jan 2007 at 10:54pm
The Long Island Rail Road plans to seize portions of up to 80 properties by eminent domain for its Third Track Project along the Main Line Corridor from Hicksville to New Hyde Park, the railroad confirmed Saturday night.
Officials: Arson hits Elmont buildings (41 hits)
28 Jan 2007 at 5:40pm
One or more arsonists set a fire in Elmont Saturday night that damaged three structures, including the home of a family of five with a 5-month-old boy, fire officials said.
Vandals shatter East Massapequa car windows (38 hits)
28 Jan 2007 at 5:38pm
Someone used a pellet gun over the weekend to shatter the windows of at least ten automobiles parked in East Massapequa and Nassau police are searching for suspects.
Teenagers find expresssion online (41 hits)
27 Jan 2007 at 8:30pm
They arrived at the mall with a purpose: Take new pictures of themselves for their MySpace profiles. The four teenagers roamed Roosevelt Field mall with digital cameras and found their ideal backdrop in a couple of kiddie rides.
Syosset couple laid to rest as murder investigation continues (49 hits)
27 Jan 2007 at 9:50pm
Ek tuhi nirankar — "Thou art formless" in the Punjabi language — was chanted again and again by hundreds who gathered to mourn Jaspal and Geeta Singh on Saturday.

Uniondale man gets 55 years for killing friend (45 hits)
26 Jan 2007 at 3:02pm
A man convicted of killing his friend, then taking over his home while his body rotted in the basement was sentenced Friday to 55 years to life in prison.
Son accidentally kills father at West Babylon recycling plant (48 hits)
26 Jan 2007 at 2:53pm
An industrial accident at a West Babylon recycling plant claimed the life of a Brooklyn man this morning — run over by a payloader operated by his own son, Suffolk police said.
Fear for homes in LIRR's path (43 hits)
25 Jan 2007 at 11:00pm
New Hyde Park officials say up to 30 properties in the village could be condemned for the Third Track Project.

Up to 30 homes and businesses in New Hyde Park face condemnation to make way for the Long Island Rail Road's Third Track Project in western Nassau, according to village officials.
Southampton home blaze kills one (50 hits)
25 Jan 2007 at 11:43pm
Firefighters from three departments were fighting a house fire in Southampton late Thursady night that claimed one life, police officials said.
Feeling squeeze of living on LI (57 hits)
26 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
In a new survey, residents express their concern about the region's stagnant wages, higher taxes and the rising cost of living

The dream of suburbia - a robust economy, a comfortable paycheck, affordable living - may be slipping away for many Long Islanders, although they continue to feel pride in their region, according to a poll released today by the Long Island Index.

Children of slain parents search for answers (54 hits)
24 Jan 2007 at 10:36pm
The mystery deepened Wednesday, with no obvious motive or suspects, in the slayings of a popular Syosset couple who left behind two young sons and scores of family gathering on Long Island from as far as India to mourn their deaths.
Cob nabbed in online predator sting (55 hits)
24 Jan 2007 at 10:23pm
A rookie New York City police officer was arrested Wednesday for engaging in sexually explicit online chats with an undercover police officer posing as a 14-year-old girl, Suffolk police said.
Convicted burglar charged in spree (39 hits)
24 Jan 2007 at 11:18pm
A convicted burglar free from prison through a work-release program was charged Wednesday with committing seven burglaries this month on Suffolk's South Shore, Suffolk police said, and is under investigation for additional burglaries in Nassau County.
Sayville teenager killed in crash (81 hits)
24 Jan 2007 at 10:26pm
In his last shift at the Blue Water Bistro & Bar in Sayville, William Raimo, 17, whipped up a quick dinner of spaghetti carbonara and Caesar salad for the young children of his manager, Kathy Elton.
Two held in West Babylon robbery attempt (41 hits)
24 Jan 2007 at 10:33pm
Two men were robbed at gunpoint as they sat in a car in front of a West Babylon residence Tuesday, and Suffolk police are still searching for one of the men responsible for the crime, authorities said.

Controllers and pilots to share Brazil air crash blame (47 hits)
22 Jan 2007 at 9:38pm
A statement from the federal police said the air traffic controllers could face up to 12 years for homicide.

Air traffic controllers as well as two American pilots are likely to share the blame for Brazil's worst aviation disaster when the country's criminal probe of the September collision wraps up in about a month, a spokeswoman for the federal police said Monday.
Fire near Republic Airport under investigation (33 hits)
22 Jan 2007 at 10:30am
A large abandoned building across the street from Republic Airport in East Farmingdale went up in flames before dawn this morning, closing down Conklin Street for more than one hour and taking about 100 firefighters from five local departments almost three hours to extinguish.
Accident slows traffic on Long Island Expressway (45 hits)
22 Jan 2007 at 5:49pm
A tractor trailer carrying brick, gravel and sand overturned while traveling eastbound on the Long Island Expressway Monday afternoon, snarling traffic for nearly three hours.
Mother pleads guilty in LI shaken baby case (38 hits)
22 Jan 2007 at 3:48pm
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) _ The mother of a 5-month-old boy who prosecutors said died of shaken baby syndrome pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree manslaughter in a plea deal that will require her to testify against her boyfriend, prosecutors said.
Nassau police seek gunman who fled on bike (38 hits)
22 Jan 2007 at 1:19pm
Nassau police are looking for a man on a bike they said shot and wounded another man early today in an attempted robbery on the streets of Freeport.

MacArthur's $12.4M mistake (30 hits)
19 Jan 2007 at 9:08pm
The concrete at MacArthur Airport's Southwest terminal is set for demolition as report says conditions compromise safety.

The deteriorating concrete apron outside the Southwest terminal at Long Island MacArthur Airport must be completely ripped out and replaced, a pavement consultant hired by the airline said in a report released Friday.
Senate race in Nassau sees first daggers (23 hits)
19 Jan 2007 at 9:13pm
Nassau's special election for State Senate turned negative yesterday as both sides began swapping charges about taxes, abortion rights and stem-cell research.
Three more stranded dolphins die on LI (21 hits)
19 Jan 2007 at 8:46pm
Not long after dawn, rescuers surveying the shallow waters of Northwest Creek confirmed their fears: Three dead dolphins had washed ashore during the night and three frail survivors were swimming slowly in the inaccessible upper reaches of the creek.
W. Floyd scammer heads to prison (26 hits)
19 Jan 2007 at 8:44pm
Daniel Cifonelli is in prison. Finally.
Witness: Shinnecock land buy ignored laws (28 hits)
19 Jan 2007 at 9:01pm
A Yale-trained historian said in federal court Friday that East End colonialists ignored the law of the day and illegally purchased lands from the Shinnecock tribe in the 17th century, findings that could support the tribe's bid to build a casino in Hampton Bays.

Nassau pols explore anti-trans fat options (21 hits)
18 Jan 2007 at 5:23pm
Everybody agreed on one thing Thursday at a Nassau legislative health committee hearing in East Meadow: Transfats are bad for you.
Love sparked fight (29 hits)
18 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
Police say beating of North Babylon girl by 3 others was about boy whom victim and one of attackers had dated

The vicious attack on a teenage girl in North Babylon that was candidly posted on the Internet and subsequently broadcast on television across the nation appears to have been about love, Suffolk police said yesterday.
Farmingville man sentenced for drunk driving deaths (29 hits)
18 Jan 2007 at 11:43am
A Farmingville man convicted of being drunk while driving in an accident that killed two passengers was sentenced today to 5 to 15 years in prison.
Boyfriend gets 26-life in murder (30 hits)
18 Jan 2007 at 4:34pm
Not many people knew Elisabeth Parisi when she was alive — a tiny mother of two who spent years fleeing her abusive boyfriend and returning to him.
Crash contrition (22 hits)
18 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
A day after his driver hit a Jeep on the way to a meeting, Suozzi regrets incident and vows to make changes

A day after County Executive Thomas Suozzi's unmarked car ran a red light and slammed into a passing Jeep, an apologetic Suozzi said flashing lights and sirens "should only be used in an emergency situation. "

Building inspector busted for taking bribes (27 hits)
16 Jan 2007 at 10:48pm
A Town of Islip building inspector arrested Tuesday admitted to receiving weekly bribes to fast-track projects for at least the past three years, said Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota.
Man tries to lure girls into his car (22 hits)
16 Jan 2007 at 10:41pm
A suspected child predator twice tried to lure girls into his car near a Huntington Station school in recent days, prompting principals to send warning letters to more than 6,000 school district households.
In county car, Suozzi gets in accident (23 hits)
16 Jan 2007 at 10:44pm
With its emergency lights flashing and siren sounding, Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi's county car ran a red light Tuesday morning and broadsided a Jeep crossing the intersection of Northern Boulevard and Glen Cove Road in Greenvale, according to police reports and the Jeep's driver.
Former CA chief counsel gets 2-year jail term (29 hits)
16 Jan 2007 at 2:14pm
Choking back tears, former Computer Associates chief counsel Steve Woghin apologized in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn Tuesday for his role in a $2.2 billion accounting scandal at the company before he was sentenced to a two-year jail term.
Police nab serial bank robbers (20 hits)
16 Jan 2007 at 11:05pm
Two Suffolk men have been arrested in connection with a string of local bank robberies, police said Tuesday.

Lifting voices for a leader (25 hits)
15 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
Community centers, churches conduct upbeat yet somber celebrations of MLK through song, poetry

Long Islanders honored the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in churches and community centers across the Island, brightening a dreary Sunday with songs and speeches celebrating the civil rights leader's legacy.
A Long Island native takes part in daring rescue (25 hits)
15 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
Ruby Prince speaks into a Web camera nearly every day from her home in Woodbury, one of the various forms of communication she uses to stay in touch with her son, Jesse, 24, an Army first lieutenant serving in Baghdad.
Parents talk of Duke case (23 hits)
15 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
The parents of three Duke lacrosse players accused of sexually assaulting an exotic dancer last March spoke out last night on CBS News' "60 Minutes," a day after the prosecutor stepped down from the case.
Diving through hoops to rescue dolphins (25 hits)
15 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
But efforts to free 20 who are stuck in E. Hampton creek fail again, and rescuers decide to rethink plan

Rescuers in East Hampton failed yesterday to herd about 20 common dolphins through a shallow, narrow inlet and into the harbor beyond.
Homeless man critical after van catches fire (24 hits)
15 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
A homeless man was severely burned and possibly assaulted after the van he was sleeping in caught fire outside a Mastic laundry, police said.

HOLIDAY CLOSINGS (24 hits)
13 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
Monday is a federal holiday to celebrate the birth of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Federal courts and offices will be closed. Post offices will be closed. There will be no regular mail delivery. The Postal Store at Roosevelt Field mall will be open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Financial markets will be open; banks and public schools will be closed. The LIRR will operate on regular weekday schedules with off-peak fares all day. Amtrak will run on its regular schedule with limited service on the Acela high-speed train. Long Island Bus will operate on a regular weekday schedule.
Case of two identities (25 hits)
13 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
DA: Convicted killer used alias to dodge police for years

A twice-convicted killer duped law enforcement for years using a phony identity, prosecutors said Friday as they charged the man with first-degree murder in the execution of a Coram mother and son.
They scratched their way to a lottery of cash (29 hits)
13 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
After Robert Wilson bought a lottery ticket at a Bohemia store last month, he walked outside and started scratching it off. And though he soon realized he'd won, he had no idea how much.
Recognizing their sacrifice (24 hits)
13 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
A Korean War vet erects new monument in Eisenhower Park's Veterans Plaza to honor black servicemembers

William Thomas is a proud man, an Army vet, a former New York City housing cop.
DA in Duke case asks to be removed (26 hits)
13 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
The embattled district attorney in the Duke lacrosse sexual assault case has asked the state attorney general's office to appoint a special prosecutor to take over the case.

School district explains ban on dog for deaf student (21 hits)
9 Jan 2007 at 10:01pm
Boy's mother reacts angrily to school's stance, saying officials have "vendetta" against the family.

The parents of a deaf Westbury teenager "repeatedly rejected" efforts by officials to discuss the boy's wish to bring his service dog to school, the East Meadow schools chief said Tuesday.
NJ man arrested in Inwood home invasion shooting (27 hits)
10 Jan 2007 at 12:28am
Nassau County police arrested a second man wanted in a wild gun battle late last year that resulted in the wounding of a then-9-year-old boy inside an Inwood residence, which was the target of a home invasion.
Single car crash kills Rocky Point man (20 hits)
10 Jan 2007 at 2:31pm
A car accident claimed the life of a 73-year-old Rocky Point man Tuesday night, Suffolk County police said.
Police arrest 603 DWI drivers over holidays (23 hits)
10 Jan 2007 at 3:31pm
Suffolk Police announced Wednesday they arrested 603 drivers for Driving While Intoxicated during a holiday crackdown from Nov. 25-Jan. 4. That number includes 186 DWI arrests made by a specialized "Enhanced Holiday Patrol-DWI Task Force."
Friend arraigned in DWI death case (23 hits)
10 Jan 2007 at 11:24am
The 18-year-old man arrested for Driving While Intoxicated in a December crash that killed his friend is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday morning in Suffolk County Court following a grand jury indictment.

With tot in car, mom thwarts robber (28 hits)
9 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
An armed robber jumped into the front passenger seat of a car in North Lawrence yesterday and demanded money from a woman whose 3-year-old child was in the back seat - but police said the woman gave him nothing except a piece of her mind.
eBay sale leads to stolen goods bust (29 hits)
9 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
A Mineola man looking to replace a stolen GPS device happened to find his pinched gadget on a popular online marketplace, triggering an investigation that led to an arrest and the recovery of instruments swiped from across Long Island and New York's five boroughs, Nassau police said yesterday.
Officials: Ref quit before foot charge (29 hits)
9 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
A high school basketball referee who was arrested during the weekend for making inappropriate comments about a young girl's feet had resigned last month, a sports organization said yesterday.
Third track on or off? (25 hits)
9 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
LIRR, MTA tell some communities their property will not be taken for new rail, raising questions

The LIRR and the MTA have told officials in Bellerose, Floral Park and Garden City that the agencies will not need to condemn land in their villages for the planned "third track" project in western Nassau, officials confirmed yesterday.
Schools' lesson learned (20 hits)
9 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
Albany officials note substantial increase in certified teachers in state, particularly point to turnaround in city

Albany officials report a significant rise in the number of fully certified teachers working in classrooms across the state - especially in New York City, where nearly 13,000 uncredentialed teachers have been cut in recent years.

Playoffs raise the bar (20 hits)
7 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
For football fans, it's the next best thing to nirvana. For bar owners, it's something close to heaven.
Redesign with river in mind (22 hits)
7 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
Michael Mannetta remembers when Riverhead was the shopping center of the entire East End. When it was the place to go on Saturday nights to see a movie. Or just hang around and meet people.
Aftermath of Suozzi's tab (23 hits)
7 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
Executive's camp says it paid county more than $27G cost for campaign security; lawmakers unhappy

Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi's use of two police detectives to drive him in a county car during his failed campaign for governor this year cost taxpayers $26,813.66, his aides have reported to the county legislature.
Retailers bring down prices as mercury rises (22 hits)
7 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
At Eastern Mountain Sports in Carle Place yesterday, business in the store's cross-country skiing section had slowed to a trickle, with few customers stopping by to be fitted for gliding across snowy expanses.
A high for temps, spirits (22 hits)
7 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
The record-setting temperatures on LI and New York City sent people happily to golf courses, parks

The only snowflake to be found at Christopher Morley Park in Roslyn yesterday was on a holiday ornament tacked to the information sign, underneath a proclamation that the park's outdoor ice rink opened Dec. 1.

Hempstead man, police in standoff (23 hits)
5 Jan 2007 at 7:29am
A standoff continued Friday morning in Hempstead, where Nassau County police are negotiating with a man who fired several shots at officers who went to a private home just before midnight to make an arrest on an earlier domestic dispute, a police spokesman said.
Islip's big stop payment (20 hits)
5 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
Supervisor declares an end to practice of giving workers extra 'confidential' money, $100G last year alone

Islip's new Town Supervisor Philip Nolan has ordered a halt to a practice of "confidential pay," which he said secretly boosted some workers' pay by thousands of dollars - in one case doubling an aide's salary - and may have been used to circumvent civil service rules.
Long Island bank robberies are up (13 hits)
4 Jan 2007 at 9:29pm
Police and experts say drug addiction and tough times are among the reasons for the increase.

Greed. Desperation. Drug addiction. All are chief reasons behind most bank robberies, which are increasing across Long Island, experts said.
New Islip supervisor stops confidential pay (22 hits)
4 Jan 2007 at 9:56pm
Islip's new Town Supervisor Philip Nolan has ordered a halt to a practice of "confidential pay," which he said secretly boosted some workers' pay by thousands of dollars — in one case doubling an aide's salary — and may have been used to circumvent civil service rules.
Suozzi: Put 'em up (23 hits)
5 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
Standing in front of the Jericho water tower on Merry Lane, Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi yesterday condemned a dozen municipal groups that are refusing to allow the county to install transmitters for a planned radio system on locally owned water towers.

Limo crash jurors may be called back (26 hits)
2 Jan 2007 at 11:19pm
An unusual effort to bring jurors in the Martin Heidgen drunken driving case back to court to discuss how they arrived at their guilty verdict moved forward Tuesday as prosecutors agreed that a hearing on the issue should be held.
Suspect in Coram slayings has lethal past (23 hits)
3 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
A parolee with a lengthy rap sheet that included two previous homicides was arrested Tuesday in the killings of a Coram woman and her son over the weekend, Suffolk police said.
Serial burglar caught on tape (27 hits)
3 Jan 2007 at 11:46am
The work of a serial burglar who ransacked a Dix Hills home and stole $30,000 in jewelry and cash was caught on video after a cleverly-placed surveillance camera recorded images of the thief rummaging through a closet, Suffolk police said.
Death of dog who bit woman angers some (21 hits)
2 Jan 2007 at 8:52pm
The death of a stray golden retriever that bit a Shirley woman, and then euthanized last week by the Town of Brookhaven Animal Shelter, has raised the ire of some local animal lovers who hoped to adopt the dog.
Judges sue for boost in salaries (22 hits)
2 Jan 2007 at 8:15pm
Fed up that New York's judges have had only one raise in nearly two decades, four local jurists have filed a lawsuit against state leaders demanding more money and regular cost of living boosts from now on.

Grandmother, son shot in Coram (26 hits)
31 Dec 2006 at 7:48pm
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Twin surgeons fulfill promise (22 hits)
1 Jan 2007 at 1:04am
Twin surgeons bring an Afghani boy they met while serving in Afghanistan to New York for an operation

A pair of twin surgeons who spent six months last year in war-torn Afghanistan made a pledge to a local boy and his father that they would find a way to perform a surgery correcting the boy's congenital urinary malformation.
Suspect in chase locked up (24 hits)
1 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
Richard Mair, who led police on a high-speed chase that ended when he crashed into a Farmingdale house and killed a man inside, will not get out of jail any time soon.
Fire damages Huntington building (23 hits)
1 Jan 2007 at 12:22am
A fire ripped through an empty building in Huntington yesterday, damaging the two floors of the commercial structure but causing no injuries, fire officials said.
No sign of man missing after crash (22 hits)
1 Jan 2007 at 12:00am
David Allen's family just assumed he had taken a spur of the moment trip to Atlantic City.

'He just wanted to be a good father' (50 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 (82 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 (23 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 (35 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 (22 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 (57 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' (37 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 (27 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 (29 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 (27 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 (31 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 (36 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 (46 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 (57 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 (32 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 (31 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' (30 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 (33 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 (59 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 (39 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.

Heroic act at home (27 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 (29 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 (36 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 (30 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 (33 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 (35 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 (36 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 (34 hits)
15 Dec 2006 at 2:22pm
Ex-publisher gets 15 months in child porn case (36 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 (30 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.

Board to study possible booze ban on LIRR (36 hits)
13 Dec 2006 at 4:02pm
Riders, the days of drinking on the rails may soon be over.
E.coli confusion continues (39 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 (34 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 (42 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 (37 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.

Fear over flounder limits (19 hits)
12 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
Officials say cutting back on fluke catch will replenish supply later, but LI fishing industry sees bad financial news

New limits on summer flounder could reduce by nearly half the amount New York's recreational fishermen can take from local waters.
Hey, what's the Big Idea for 2007? (21 hits)
12 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
Whatever happened to Big Ideas?
Sickened Seaford woman files suit (22 hits)
12 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
A Seaford vegetarian yesterday became the latest person stricken with E.coli from Taco Bell to sue the restaurant chain.
E. coli source mix-up (24 hits)
12 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
FDA officials say they haven t ruled out any Taco Bell food items after labeling error is made at lab

In a reversal from previous announcements, the state Department of Health yesterday said it found E.coli strains in white onions from a Hempstead Taco Bell, not green onions from Deer Park.
'Jury is deadlocked' (22 hits)
12 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
After samurai jury's note, judge tells panel to continue talking and 'be willing to change your decision'

Two hours into their fifth day of deliberation in the murder trial of Zachary Gibian, jurors announced yesterday that they were unable to reach a verdict.

Babies laid to rest (23 hits)
10 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
Mourners attend funeral of infant boy found dead in Hicksville before burial alongside girl found last month

Two tiny coffins, each containing the bodies of babies who were discarded as trash, sat side by side yesterday morning, waiting to be pushed into the ground at the Cemetery of the Holy Rood in Westbury.
Man found trapped under debris in Centerport home (26 hits)
10 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
A 64-year-old man who was trapped for days inside his decrepit Centerport house after hoarded junk collapsed on him was rescued by police yesterday.
Seeking justice in tragedy's wake (22 hits)
10 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
Amid concern over fatal overdoses, new police unit probes all deaths in hunt for drug source

The call came in as an anonymous tip to the Suffolk Police Department's narcotics squad one February day in 2005. A woman who identified herself only as a mother who had lost a son to an overdose told the detective she knew who had been selling him drugs.
Opiate addicts find fewer hospital-run detox beds available (25 hits)
10 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
Addicts who overdose on heroin or other opiates are likely to land first in a hospital emergency room, where doctors can often save them from brain damage or death.
Young & strung out (28 hits)
10 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
Alarming trend of younger users, like Matt, on LI

When Matt locked himself in the bathroom of his parents' East Meadow home last year to take his first shot of heroin for the day, he knew immediately that this hit was different.

Family files suit against Taco Bell (28 hits)
7 Dec 2006 at 12:57am
The family of an 11-year-old Medford boy has filed a negligence lawsuit against Taco Bell, claiming the youngster became ill with food that was allegedly contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
New LI Regional Planning director named (21 hits)
7 Dec 2006 at 4:34pm
Prominent local environmental lawyer Michael White will be named as the new director of the Long Island Regional Planning Board, according to county sources, thus filling the vacancy left last May by Lee Koppelman who headed the board since its founding four decades ago.
Man gets 25 years for manslaughter (24 hits)
6 Dec 2006 at 9:34pm
Hazel Hamilton asked a Nassau County judge to impose the maximum sentence Wednesday on the man who shot her son in the heart as he stood on the sidewalk eating soup.
A scathing audit of public works (21 hits)
7 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
Suffolk comptroller finds irregularities in county department's purchasing practices and possible collusion

In a blistering new audit, Suffolk Comptroller Joseph Sawicki blasts purchasing practices at the county public works department, citing possible collusion among suppliers in cases in which bid specifications were narrow enough to give some vendors an "unfair competitive advantage."
Cruelty charges filed after discovery of dead dog (27 hits)
7 Dec 2006 at 10:00am
Suffolk police arrested a Coram woman Wednesday on charges of animal cruelty after investigators determined that she allowed her dog to die by neglecting the canine after it had been hit by a vehicle.

With more sick, Taco Bell pulls green onions (21 hits)
6 Dec 2006 at 10:17am
Seven new possible cases of E. coli-related illnesses emerged in Nassau County Tuesday, as officials continued to try to track the source of contamination that resulted in the closure of eight Taco Bell restaurants on Long Island.
Brazil releases passports of LI pilots (22 hits)
5 Dec 2006 at 9:40pm
Two Long Island pilots stranded in Brazil since surviving a fatal midair collision took a big step toward coming home, when a federal tribunal there ruled Tuesday that they should be given their passports back within 72 hours.
Closing arguments heard in samurai case (21 hits)
5 Dec 2006 at 2:12pm
It took nearly a year and a half for Zachary Gibian and his attorney to plan a defense that sought to explain away all the evidence that Gibian killed his stepfather with a samurai sword, a Suffolk prosecutor told a jury in his closing remarks Tuesday.
DWI crash kills two in Islip Terrace (11 hits)
6 Dec 2006 at 8:51am
Two were people were killed early Wednesday in Islip Terrace when a suspected drunken driver slammed a sport utility vehicle into another car, Suffolk police said.
Mineola police plan defeated (20 hits)
5 Dec 2006 at 11:09pm
Voters in Mineola voted overwhelmingly last night to reject a proposal that would have created a village police force to replace the Nassau County officers who now patrol their community.

Residency laws under microscope (22 hits)
3 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
One after another, the laws keep coming.
Speaking out from the front lines (23 hits)
3 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
JOHN L., 64, A LEVEL 2 SEX OFFENDER
Plaza gets spruced up with tree lighting (22 hits)
3 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
At the end of a countdown led by Santa Claus, nearly 65,000 lights on the Christmas tree at Reckson Plaza came to life last night.
Pumping up solutions (22 hits)
3 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
U.S. Army Corps mulls options for dredging E. Rockaway Inlet, where fuel barge ran aground recently

As the Nassau police boat P.O. George Kempen cruised through East Rockaway Inlet at high tide, nothing appeared out of the ordinary: The channel buoys seemed to mark an untroubled stretch of water.
Challenge for LI schools (25 hits)
3 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
More than 40 years have passed since Frederick K. Brewington, then a third-grader, became one of the first black students to enroll in a previously all-white Malverne elementary school.

Accusing mom in stepdad's death could net Gibian $2M (25 hits)
1 Dec 2006 at 10:46pm
An unflappable Zachary Gibian kept his cool Friday as he squared off with a Suffolk prosecutor who said the Hauppauge teen stood to collect $2 million by pinning his stepfather's murder on his mother.
Family of victim may offer reward (24 hits)
2 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
The family of a 25-year-old Roosevelt man shot dead in a Baldwin bar is considering offering a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of his killer.
Teddy Roosevelt gun snatcher pleads guilty (22 hits)
1 Dec 2006 at 9:28pm
A former Queens resident faces up to 90 days in prison and a $500 fine after pleading guilty to stealing the pistol Theodore Roosevelt used in the Spanish-American War.
Jury awards $6.3M for underground gas leak (22 hits)
1 Dec 2006 at 12:00am
One of the nation's top manufacturers and marketers of petroleum products was slapped with a $6 million fine by a Nassau jury for contamination caused by a gasoline leak from abandoned underground tanks at an Inwood filling station.
Revamped punishment plan (24 hits)
29 Nov 2006 at 10:17pm
State officials are expected to prohibit student discipline deemed emotionally or physically damaging.

State school officials are moving toward sweeping new restrictions on the use of shock therapy and detention rooms for special-education students, in response to complaints by some Long Island parents that such disciplinary techniques were being abused.

Revamped punishment plan (24 hits)
29 Nov 2006 at 10:17pm
State officials are expected to prohibit student discipline deemed emotionally or physically damaging.

State school officials are moving toward sweeping new restrictions on the use of shock therapy and detention rooms for special-education students, in response to complaints by some Long Island parents that such disciplinary techniques were being abused.
Audit: Roslyn schools still struggling (23 hits)
29 Nov 2006 at 9:35pm
Four years after Roslyn was hit by the worst school financial scandal in state history, the state comptroller's office reported Wednesday that the district continues to suffer from weak controls over employee travel expenses, credit card purchases and other budget transactions.
Wide range of reaction over possible SBUH split (12 hits)
29 Nov 2006 at 10:30pm
State Sen. Kenneth LaValle said he hoped his bill to separate Stony Brook University Medical Center from the university would generate discussion.
Klein grilled by clerk's attorney (24 hits)
29 Nov 2006 at 11:10pm
A Democratic political operative, while paid by Nassau as a $25-an-hour seasonal clerk, e-mailed County Executive Thomas Suozzi a strategy memo for his "Fix Albany" campaign and attended the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston on county time with Suozzi, according to court .testimony Wednesday.
Man kills girlfriend, turns gun on self (26 hits)
29 Nov 2006 at 10:19pm
An armed man chased his ex-girlfriend around her Hicksville office Wednesday before shooting her to death, then apparently took his own life, Nassau police said.

Newborn's body found at Hicksville train station (27 hits)
27 Nov 2006 at 10:57pm
As commuters waited and boarded trains to the city in Hicksville Monday, the tiny body of a newborn boy was lying lifeless in a white plastic bag left on top of a trash can on the platform.
NUMC likely to get $24M for big renovations (22 hits)
27 Nov 2006 at 9:48pm
The Nassau University Medical Center is set to receive a $24 million grant from the state for six major projects, officials said Monday — but only if the county legislature within 30 days approves transferring $10.2 million to the hospital from its tobacco settlement funds.
Suozzi aide denies scam role (24 hits)
27 Nov 2006 at 10:06pm
A former top aide to Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi Monday testified that he gave a key to his Manhattan home office to a seasonal clerk he hired — but never authorized the clerk to fax allegedly bogus time sheets from there to the county.
Testimony on blood splatter in samurai trial (25 hits)
27 Nov 2006 at 10:59pm
Slicing through flesh, muscle and bone, the fatal samurai sword blow to the back of Scott Nager's neck cut him "from one ear to the other ear," a medical examiner testified at Zachary Gibian's trial Monday.
Man gets 50 years in death of two women (26 hits)
28 Nov 2006 at 12:05am
The Hempstead man authorities say was a serial killer in the making was sentenced Monday in Nassau County Court to at least 50 years in prison for killing two women in the summer of 2005.

Post office renamed for fallen soldier (29 hits)
25 Nov 2006 at 5:50pm
On what would have been Army Spc. Jacob S. Fletcher's 32nd birthday, officials Saturday dedicated the Babylon Post Office in honor of the soldier killed three years ago in Iraq.
Controversial diagnoses split up two families (45 hits)
25 Nov 2006 at 9:00pm
That Saturday morning, Cindy Becvar was in the shower, getting ready to take her daughter to the Long Island Performing Arts Center to pose for dance recital pictures. Her husband, Greg Becvar, was about to take their son to his baseball picnic in the ballfield behind their North Babylon house.
Local surgeons helping Iraqi who helped U.S. (24 hits)
25 Nov 2006 at 8:23pm
The right side of Uday's face is shattered. There's a hole where his cheekbone used to be and his eye is gone. His nose is crooked and bloated.
Cop, teller foil robbery (28 hits)
25 Nov 2006 at 11:15pm
An off-duty Suffolk police officer and a retired New York City police officer helped foil a bank robbery in Huntington Saturday.
Father and son save family from fire (12 hits)
25 Nov 2006 at 9:33pm
As the son of a Huntington fire chief, Christopher Uvena grew up watching his father leave home at a moment's notice to fight blazes.

Black Friday gets a green light (25 hits)
23 Nov 2006 at 9:04pm
The day after Thanksgiving marks the traditional launch of the holiday shopping season, with predawn doorbuster offers and slashed prices on popular gift items. But the hype to consume doesn't end there.
Serving up hope with meal (29 hits)
24 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
Volunteers across the Island, Manhattan offer thousands with nowhere else to go food, companionship

For the past three weeks, Arthur Byer has lived with his family in their red Dodge conversion van. With him are his disabled wife, daughter, mother-in-law, two dogs and four cats.
Teen shot en route to friend's house (25 hits)
23 Nov 2006 at 7:07pm
A teenager walking to his friend's house to play video games was shot to death as he walked on Gladys Avenue in Hempstead, Nassau police said Thursday.
Grab-and-run gang hits mall (23 hits)
23 Nov 2006 at 8:58pm
Four Brooklyn residents with a taste for the latest styles — particularly the lingerie at Victoria's Secret — drove a rental car to Walt Whitman Mall in Huntington Station and helped themselves at various clothing stores before getting caught, Suffolk police said Thursday.
After 61 years, a reunion with rescuers (23 hits)
23 Nov 2006 at 10:49pm
In 1943, Lea Ingel escaped from the Nazis with help of a Catholic family living in small Lithuanian village farmhouse. They protected her for a year by calling her their own daughter. She then safely escaped after the Russian liberation of Lithuania.

Tracking sex offenders in Babylon having results (25 hits)
21 Nov 2006 at 9:45pm
Town officials said they had identified seven offenders living too close to places where children congregate and 17 in illegal housing.

Two weeks after implementing a mapping system to track registered sex offenders, Town of Babylon officials said Tuesday they had identified seven offenders living too close to places where children congregate and 17 in illegal housing.
LIRR report 'painful' for teen's dad (30 hits)
21 Nov 2006 at 9:49pm
The state report that blamed Minnesota teenager Natalie Smead for her death at a Long Island Rail Road station was "pretty ugly" and should instill fear in LIRR riders, Smead's father said Tuesday.
Woman reports husband's death … 3 years later (27 hits)
21 Nov 2006 at 11:07pm
A 73-year-old Bay Ridge woman walked into the 68th Precinct Tuesday to report for the first time that her husband had died three years ago — and that his body had remained in the couple's Bay Ridge Parkway home ever since.
Boyfriend charged in murder (27 hits)
21 Nov 2006 at 11:27pm
A 29-year-old Copiague man was arrested Tuesday and charged with strangling his live-in girlfriend after learning she was seeing another man, police said.
Wantagh teen's drive to feed 215 families (33 hits)
21 Nov 2006 at 11:36pm
Andrew Innerfield of Wantagh read the story and immediately knew what to do. Food pantries across Long Island had told Newsday recently they were hoping for a last-minute influx of donations — including turkeys — to help feed the poor on Thanksgiving.

Campaign cash and LI's super shoppers (26 hits)
19 Nov 2006 at 11:46pm
Because of loose finance laws, LI supervisors have been allowed to use more than $500,000 of campaign funds for unrelated expenses

One of Long Island's town supervisors spent $300 on a wedding gift.
Driver killed on Sunrise Highway (26 hits)
20 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
A Huntington Station man was killed yesterday when he lost control of his vehicle on Sunrise Highway in Bohemia and crashed into a guardrail, only to be hit again by an oncoming Suffolk police car, police said.
Man shot in Uniondale while checking tire. (25 hits)
20 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
Nassau police are looking for a gunman who wounded a man in Uniondale while he checked his car for a possible flat tire. The 19-year-old Hempstead man, whom police said they didn't identify because he's a surviving crime victim, was traveling east with a passenger on Cedar Street about 10:30 p.m. Saturday when he stopped because he thought he had a flat tire.
Masked gunmen hit poker jackpot at VFW hall (32 hits)
20 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
Four armed robbers in ski masks hit the jackpot when they pushed their way into a Franklin Square poker tournament and made off with cash, wallets and cell phones, Nassau police said.
Brazilian judge denies pilots' return (29 hits)
20 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
For the second time in a week, a Brazilian judge has refused to return the passports of two Long Island pilots involved in a mid-air collision over the Amazon jungle that killed 154 passengers.

Priest charged with possessing child porn (29 hits)
17 Nov 2006 at 11:00pm
According to authorities, a Roosevelt priest had 1,300 sexually explicit images on his rectory computer and engaged in sexual chats with undercovers.

Federal agents arrested a Roman Catholic priest based in Roosevelt Friday on child pornography charges after authorities said he stored 1,300 sexually explicit images of children on his rectory computer and engaged in sexually laced chats with detectives posing as teenage boys.
Man arrested for Hykiem Coney shooting (32 hits)
17 Nov 2006 at 11:14pm
Police arrested a Roosevelt man Friday in Pennsylvania in connection with the shooting death of anti-gang activist Hykiem Coney outside a bar in Uniondale last month.
Keeping a close eye on LIRR's new steps (24 hits)
18 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
When it comes to action the Long Island Rail Road should take for passenger safety, fixing the gaps is just "one piece of the puzzle," says New York's senior senator.
Officials: Proposed broadwater terminal safe (21 hits)
17 Nov 2006 at 5:46pm
Federal energy officials said Friday they believe the controversial Broadwater liquid natural gas terminal proposed for the middle of Long Island Sound can be built and operated safely with no major environmental impacts, a conclusion that was welcomed by the project's promoters and disputed by opponents.
Brentwood crash kills teen, injuries others (41 hits)
17 Nov 2006 at 11:11pm
A late-afternoon car accident in Brentwood Friday left one teenager dead and another fighting for her life, Suffolk police said.

Long Beach swears in black officers in emotional ceremony (23 hits)
15 Nov 2006 at 10:11pm
The long wait is over.
Cracking down on illegal housing (34 hits)
15 Nov 2006 at 10:32pm
Malverne Mayor Anthony Panzarella announced Wednesday he is teaming up with Nassau County's assessor to launch what he called "the most stringent illegal housing penalties and enforcement measures on Long Island."
Former Met's son testifies in samurai murder case (38 hits)
15 Nov 2006 at 9:55pm
As a close friend off the field and manager of his Long Island Ducks on the field, Don McCormack was all too happy to keep his eye on Bud Harrelson's son T.J. for a weekend in February 2005, McCormack's wife testified Tuesday.
Brazil crash probe eyes function of radio unit (20 hits)
15 Nov 2006 at 10:00pm
In aviation circles, it's called a "radio management unit" — a rectangular electronic console that pilots on larger aircraft use to program critical navigation and communication equipment.
Guilty verdict for Pegues in slay of friend (81 hits)
15 Nov 2006 at 8:47pm
Antonio Pegues' shoulders shook with sobs as the jury foreman read the verdict Wednesday: guilty of murder.

Replacing Roslyn bridge could create traffic havoc (29 hits)
13 Nov 2006 at 11:22pm
North Shore commuters are bracing for major construction to begin Wednesday to replace the aging Roslyn viaduct.

North Shore residents and commuters are bracing for major construction to begin Wednesday to replace the aging Roslyn viaduct, which carries nearly 40,000 drivers across the southern end of Hempstead Harbor each day.
Jury looks at deadly Samurai blade (23 hits)
13 Nov 2006 at 10:48pm
Moving their gazes across its shimmering steel blade — blemished still with the blood of Scott Nager — jurors yesterday held in their hands the samurai sword prosecutors say Zachary Gibian used to murder his stepfather.
Judge denies passport request to Brazil pilots (24 hits)
13 Nov 2006 at 9:40pm
A Brazilian federal judge Monday refused to return the passports of two Long Island pilots involved in a midair collision over the Amazon basin that killed 154 people.
Activists arrested in protest of deer killing (22 hits)
13 Nov 2006 at 9:34pm
Police arrested two animal rights activists Monday after they chained and padlocked themselves to the doors of the Diocese of Rockville Centre headquarters to protest the diocese's support of the killing of deer at the Catholic seminary in Lloyd Harbor.
Family of shooting victim questions charges (61 hits)
13 Nov 2006 at 10:10pm
When Dino Messana was fatally shot by his fiance's brother, his family assumed that the man police have identified as the shooter would be charged with murder.

Blasts level home (118 hits)
12 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
Two hurt as Huntington house is destroyed; workers had hit a gas line while excavating the front yard, triggering fiery mayhem

After workers hit a gas line outside Dave Premer's Huntington home yesterday afternoon, he gathered his dogs and went across the street.
Racing against weather to free barge (107 hits)
12 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
An oil tanker remained stuck in East Rockaway Inlet last night as the U.S. Coast Guard worked to free it before a storm kicked up the seas and winds today, compromising the effort.
Blaming the system (116 hits)
12 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
President of Stony Brook inherited a faulty hospital leadership structure, some say

A recent state health department report, sharply critical of Stony Brook University Medical Center, laid some of the blame on campus president Shirley Strum Kenny, who under state law acts as the hospital's "governing body. "
Vets 'there for us' (111 hits)
12 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
They are honored at Veterans Day events around the region

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A sigh of relief after surgery (131 hits)
12 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
Doctors hopeful after East Meadow woman with cystic fibrosis gets a new pair of lungs

Jennifer Lanzaro's birthday present came two days early - a new pair of lungs that will hopefully keep the 28-year-old East Meadow woman alive for many years to come, according to her doctors.

Long Beach hires first black police officers in 38 years (21 hits)
9 Nov 2006 at 10:16pm
The swearing-in of two Long Beach police officers next week will mark the first time blacks are hired for the mostly white police force since 1968, ending the decades-long void and fulfilling what civil rights groups and community leaders called years of empty promises.
Questions in death of former LI resident (23 hits)
9 Nov 2006 at 9:44pm
In the pages of her 1995 Sayville High School yearbook, Michelle Marie Young's future seemed inevitably bright.
School board hopeful charged with rape (24 hits)
9 Nov 2006 at 9:21pm
A man who lost a bid for a seat on the Wyandanch school board in May pleaded not guilty last week to raping a girl under 15 at his home on Halloween, authorities said.
Town eyes 'green' construction (19 hits)
9 Nov 2006 at 11:38pm
New industrial, commercial and multi-family residential dwellings in the Town of Babylon will have to be built under more environmentally stringent standards if proposed changes to the town code are adopted next month, Babylon officials said Thursday.
Lawyers fight for pilots return (21 hits)
9 Nov 2006 at 4:58pm
Attorneys for ExcelAire of Ronkonkoma are expected to go to court in Brazil today to seek the return of the passports of the two Long Island pilots involved in a midair collision — now that Brazil's supreme court has resolved the conflict over who has ultimate authority over the criminal investigations into the Sept. 29 accident.

Family grives for Markus Smith (26 hits)
7 Nov 2006 at 10:11pm
After watching her only son die when he was crushed beneath his school bus, Lorena Smith made an agonizing decision.
Nolan wins in Islip, Flanagan and Trunzo winners too (21 hits)
8 Nov 2006 at 12:49am
As voters rebuffed Republicans nationwide, GOP incumbents on Long Island emerged largely unscathed — with the notable exception of Islip Town, where a Democrat took the supervisor's office for the first time in a generation.
Rep. King holds off Mejias (18 hits)
8 Nov 2006 at 1:03am
Rep. Peter King won a heated battle against his Democratic challenger, Nassau Legis. Dave Mejias, last night in an unusually competitive contest that in many ways was a local proxy fight over President George W. Bush and the Iraq war.
Teen killed in Cold Spring Harbor crash (20 hits)
8 Nov 2006 at 1:36am
A 19-year-old Glen Cove man was killed last night in a one-car accident in Cold Spring Harbor, Suffolk police said.
Elderly widow knew the man who killed her (7 hits)
8 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
Evelyn Everette had known the man who police said killed her, for more than 30 years as a close friend and neighbor. The 88-year-old widow didn't think twice about letting him inside her New Cassel home, a request she had fulfilled countless times before.

Police: Killer fled country after shooting ex-girlfriend (24 hits)
6 Nov 2006 at 2:16pm
As Wendy Reyes lay shot in the shower of her Amityville home, her killer boarded a plane to the Dominican Republic in an attempt to escape police.
Nassau cops use technology to nab home invasion suspect (22 hits)
6 Nov 2006 at 11:26am
In an investigation worthy of a CSI episode, Nassau police used photos taken by a suspect on a cell phone stolen in a Valley Stream home invasion to solve the case.
Final grab for votes (20 hits)
6 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
As Jeanine Pirro, the Republican candidate for state attorney general, shook hands and autographed campaign posters for her supporters in Lindenhurst yesterday, she urged each one to bring a dozen friends to the polls tomorrow.
No clean getaway for seller (18 hits)
6 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
A door-to-door salesman who had just been turned down at a home in Freeport apparently decided not to leave empty-handed and so he stole the family's car, Nassau police said yesterday.
Gunman arrested in robbery (20 hits)
6 Nov 2006 at 10:27am
A Uniondale man was arrested yesterday on charges of breaking into a home and robbing six people at gunpoint, Nassau police said.

Wives of Brazil air crash pilots left alone (35 hits)
3 Nov 2006 at 11:19pm
The four-seat, single-engine airplane that 8-year-old Michael Lepore was helping his father build from a kit in the basement of their Bay Shore ranch house remains unfinished.
Stony Brook cited for 17 health violations (30 hits)
3 Nov 2006 at 11:32pm
State Health Commissioner Antonia Novello said Friday that "there is a breakage in the system at Stony Brook" University Medical Center and cited Suffolk's largest hospital for 17 violations of state regulations.
Woman hurt falling into LIRR gap at New Hyde Park (35 hits)
3 Nov 2006 at 11:29pm
A 69-year-old woman was injured Friday when she fell into a gap while getting off a Long Island Rail Road train at the New Hyde Park station during rush hour, officials said.
Graphic video shown at start of Gibian trial (41 hits)
3 Nov 2006 at 11:01pm
Turning to Scott Nager's sister and elderly father, Suffolk Assistant District Attorney John Scott Prudenti wiped his right hand down across his eyes, and they left the courtroom. It was his cue that they wouldn't want to see what was coming next.
Former driver tells of bus safety falsifications (31 hits)
3 Nov 2006 at 11:02pm
A former Smithtown school bus driver who said he alerted the Suffolk district attorney's office that a transportation official had falsified safety records described Friday how drivers transported children without taking road tests and written exams needed to recertify their licenses.

Investigators want better LIRR gap warning signs (24 hits)
1 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
State investigators Wednesday urged the Long Island Rail Road to improve its gap warning signs as a preliminary step to curb gap-related accidents — even though LIRR officials already have acknowledged that signs are not enough to prevent injuries and deaths.
Readers moved by Guardsman's story (30 hits)
1 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
A recent Newsday article about Christopher Paiser, the National Guardsman blinded in a rocket attack in Iraq two years ago, drew a powerful emotional response from readers.
Selden residents questioning FD spending (22 hits)
1 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
Selden Fire District officials said Wednesday they would review travel-reimbursement policies in the wake of a Newsday story disclosing that Suffolk prosecutors have undertaken a criminal investigation of spending by Selden fire commissioners at out-of-state conventions.
DWI driver lands truck on train tracks (26 hits)
2 Nov 2006 at 10:00am
A man who police said was drunk drove his pick-up truck onto the tracks of the Greenport train station early Thursday morning, Southold Town police said.
Babylon on lookout for sex offenders (27 hits)
1 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
Babylon town officials recently started using a mapping system to enforce a county residency restriction law on registered sex offenders — and promptly discovered the vast majority of offenders in town are living closer than allowed by law to places where children congregate.

Filling in fatal LIRR gap (22 hits)
1 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
LIRR officials have begun to move tracks closer to more platforms, and plan to do so at Woodside, where teen was fatally injured

Three months after a Minnesota tourist died after falling through a gap at the Long Island Rail Road station in Woodside, officials said yesterday they now plan to shrink the gap there by shifting tracks closer to the platform.
Selden district defends its FD spending (22 hits)
31 Oct 2006 at 12:00am
Selden Fire District officials are discovering that not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
Woman run over by her own car (22 hits)
1 Nov 2006 at 12:00am
A 52-year-old East Northport woman was hospitalized Tuesday night after she was run over in her driveway by her own sport utility vehicle, police said.
Man gets life in bet runner murder case (44 hits)
1 Nov 2006 at 12:08am
In the moment before she sentenced Herve Jeannot to life in prison without parole, Nassau County Judge Meryl Berkowitz said she was struck by the similarities between Jeannot and the man he killed.
Police seek women who used stolen ATM card (19 hits)
1 Nov 2006 at 9:40am
Suffolk police are looking for two women, including one who may be in her 60s, who used a stolen ATM card at a Hamptons Bay supermarket and withdrew $2,000.

NYers' survival stories (46 hits)
31 Oct 2006 at 12:00am
Marines in LI-based unit who experienced Iraq's turmoil now face challenge of returning to civilian life

Marine Lance Cpl. Jose Aquino served as a lead gunner on patrols during his eight-month deployment to the strife-torn Iraqi city of Fallujah. During that time, Aquino suffered three concussions - the result of two roadside bomb explosions and a direct hit from a rocket-propelled grenade - that have left him with piercing headaches and intermittent ringing in his ears.
School threat probed (44 hits)
31 Oct 2006 at 8:05am
A scribbled reference to the shooting massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado was found on a desk at John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore, prompting Nassau police to plan to be at the school today, officials said.
LIRR service on West Hempstead branch suspended (45 hits)
31 Oct 2006 at 8:18am
Long Island Rail Road service on the West Hempstead Branch was temporarily suspended due to a disabled train at Hempstead Gardens. It was restored shortly after 8 a.m.
East Moriches woman arrested for DWI with son (47 hits)
31 Oct 2006 at 6:29am
An East Moriches woman was arrested for driving while intoxicated after two separate crashes with her 5-year-old son in the car Monday, police said.
Nassau steps up sex-offender watch (46 hits)
31 Oct 2006 at 12:00am
Nassau County and state lawmakers are taking a harder line in the way sex offenders are monitored.

Democrats: Miss. lawmaker can do more for New York than Rep. King (12 hits)
29 Oct 2006 at 4:21pm
Democrats seeking to topple Republican Rep. Peter King pledged Sunday that a Mississippi representative would do a better job delivering homeland security dollars to New York than the Long Island lawmaker would.
Fluster after bluster (43 hits)
29 Oct 2006 at 12:00am
More than 100,000 without power after 50-mph winds sweep Island; strong gusts expected again today

As if yesterday's storm wasn't bad enough - it knocked out power to an estimated 122,500 Long Islanders and disrupted rail service in Queens - more weather worries are expected today. More high winds are expected to keep knocking out power lines, officials said.
Getting In (43 hits)
29 Oct 2006 at 12:00am
The unprecendented competition seniors face; The struggle to find their dream colleges; The stress on students, families and finances

Starting today, and in installments through the spring, Newsday follows seven seniors in their college quest.
Tide changes for development (52 hits)
29 Oct 2006 at 12:00am
After two decades in limbo, hotel project in Long Beach seems to be on track, with developer to take title

A private developer is scheduled to take title tomorrow to a six-acre "superblock" site in Long Beach and break ground next year for a beachfront hotel and luxury condominium project facing the Atlantic Ocean.
Third party makes some noise (47 hits)
29 Oct 2006 at 12:00am
There may be only two candidates on the ballot, but the battle for the 3rd Assembly District seat has become a three-way race.

Pol's spouse suspended from OTB (92 hits)
27 Oct 2006 at 9:48pm
Bernadine Kinder, wife of Smithtown Supervisor Patrick Vecchio, has been suspended from her job at Suffolk Off-Track Betting for taking vacation time she had not earned, according to two officials with knowledge of the situation.
Mild-mannered idea roused rebel spirit (46 hits)
27 Oct 2006 at 10:27pm
They are now known as the Captain Underpants Girls who waged a battle against Long Beach High School's principal to don red capes and white briefs on "Superhero Day."
Wake, funeral set for gang reformer (53 hits)
27 Oct 2006 at 9:42pm
The wake and funeral for gang reform activist Hykiem Coney is scheduled for the 1,000-seat Union Baptist Church in Hempstead on Thursday, family friends said, requesting that media not enter the house of worship.
Hung jury in ex-teacher's rape case (72 hits)
27 Oct 2006 at 10:14pm
A lone juror who remained unconvinced that a former North Babylon High School teacher had a sexual affair with an underaged student forced Danny Cuesta's rape trial to end with a hung jury Friday.
Shirley bowling alley attack suspects arraigned (51 hits)
27 Oct 2006 at 8:53pm
The two Shirley teens charged in the sadistic sexual attack of a developmentally disabled man inside a Shirley bowling alley bathroom could face 25 years to life in prison thanks to a new law making the crime as serious as second-degree murder, prosecutors said Friday.

Pol's spouse suspended from OTB (92 hits)
27 Oct 2006 at 9:48pm
Bernadine Kinder, wife of Smithtown Supervisor Patrick Vecchio, has been suspended from her job at Suffolk Off-Track Betting for taking vacation time she had not earned, according to two officials with knowledge of the situation.
Mild-mannered idea roused rebel spirit (46 hits)
27 Oct 2006 at 10:27pm
They are now known as the Captain Underpants Girls who waged a battle against Long Beach High School's principal to don red capes and white briefs on "Superhero Day."
Wake, funeral set for gang reformer (53 hits)
27 Oct 2006 at 9:42pm
The wake and funeral for gang reform activist Hykiem Coney is scheduled for the 1,000-seat Union Baptist Church in Hempstead on Thursday, family friends said, requesting that media not enter the house of worship.
Hung jury in ex-teacher's rape case (72 hits)
27 Oct 2006 at 10:14pm
A lone juror who remained unconvinced that a former North Babylon High School teacher had a sexual affair with an underaged student forced Danny Cuesta's rape trial to end with a hung jury Friday.
Shirley bowling alley attack suspects arraigned (51 hits)
27 Oct 2006 at 8:53pm
The two Shirley teens charged in the sadistic sexual attack of a developmentally disabled man inside a Shirley bowling alley bathroom could face 25 years to life in prison thanks to a new law making the crime as serious as second-degree murder, prosecutors said Friday.

Police arrest two in fatal car shooting (31 hits)
25 Oct 2006 at 10:55pm
Two men charged Wednesday in the shooting death of Holbrook teenager Thomas Herzberg "chased and shot at" a vehicle he was driving as they tried to rob his passenger, according to a felony complaint.
Suffolk police arrest 25 men in prostitution stings (61 hits)
26 Oct 2006 at 11:50am
Suffolk police arrested 25 men in separate prostitution stings yesterday in Bay Shore and Patchogue, a day after authorities nabbed 21 people and shut down 10 illegal massage parlors operating across the county.
Suspected bank robber busted for alleged Jericho heist (22 hits)
26 Oct 2006 at 11:51am
A Brooklyn man in police custody for a string of bank robberies in Suffolk was charged by Nassau police yesterday for an alleged heist in Jericho, authorities said.
Feelings mixed about same-sex ruling (20 hits)
26 Oct 2006 at 12:00am
When Mac Speights of Huntington heard what jurists across the Hudson River said Wednesday about same-sex marriage — something he and his partner of 18 years have sought — he reacted with mixed feelings.
Brazilian controller says errors were made (22 hits)
25 Oct 2006 at 10:48pm
An air traffic controller at the center that directed the flight path of a jet flown by two Long Island pilots said controllers had more than an hour to notice that collision avoidance equipment had failed and to make sure the aircraft was not flying at the same altitude as the Boeing jetliner it struck.

Gifted teacher caught with porn is indicted (24 hits)
23 Oct 2006 at 8:58pm
The former Huntington Station teacher accused by federal authorities of a cannibalism fetish and sexual preoccupation with children was indicted Monday on 10 counts of possessing child pornography as his attorney prepared a defense that claims the images were the result of unwanted e-mail and spam.
Man found fatally shot in Holbrook (21 hits)
24 Oct 2006 at 12:24am
An 18-year-old Holbrook driver was fatally shot after a passenger in his Jeep called police to say someone was firing at their vehicle, Suffolk County police said Tuesday.
Former gas station worker tries to rob station (20 hits)
24 Oct 2006 at 11:24am
A Lindenhurst man has been arrested on robbery charges for trying to stick up the local gas station from which he had recently been fired — only to have a former co-worker recognize him through a ski-mask.
Two men arrested for scamming art store (22 hits)
24 Oct 2006 at 10:21am
Nassau detectives arrested two men yesterday who allegedly scammed a Bellmore art store for more than $16,000.
Samurai sword lawyer: hair proves innocence (21 hits)
23 Oct 2006 at 12:00am
A hair likely belonging to Zachary Gibian's mother was found inside the bag containing the sword used to kill her husband, Suffolk prosecutors said Monday — and Gibian's attorney said the discovery may be evidence that his client did not murder his stepfather.

Gifted teacher caught with porn is indicted (24 hits)
23 Oct 2006 at 8:58pm
The former Huntington Station teacher accused by federal authorities of a cannibalism fetish and sexual preoccupation with children was indicted Monday on 10 counts of possessing child pornography as his attorney prepared a defense that claims the images were the result of unwanted e-mail and spam.
Cops: Shooting wasn't the gang (21 hits)
23 Oct 2006 at 1:19pm
Ex-gangster's efforts to help kids may be behind the shooting that left him on life support, detectives say

The shooting outside a Uniondale nightspot that left anti-gang activist Hykiem Coney on life support last night wasn't the result of his decision to sever his ties with a street gang two years ago, Nassau police said.
Track work begins at Jamaica to lessen gap (18 hits)
23 Oct 2006 at 10:57am
The Long Island Rail Road today began work to move a track at the Jamaica station to lessen the gap between the platform and trains, officials said.
Alarm over defective firehouse (21 hits)
22 Oct 2006 at 11:23pm
The failure of the City of Long Beach to do routine building maintenance has left a relatively modern firehouse in need of a $2.5-million overhaul, according to an engineer's report and city officials.
Suspected burglar went out on a limb (21 hits)
23 Oct 2006 at 12:00am
A suspected burglar was arrested yesterday after police said he climbed 50 feet up a tree and fell to the ground in an attempt to evade Suffolk police.