Two more plead guilty in LIRR pension fraud case
Videos LIRR disability fraud Galleries Web links Two Long Island Rail Road retirees on Wednesday pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to filing phony disability claims with the Railroad...
View ArticleThird person pleads guilty in LIRR pension fraud case
Videos LIRR disability fraud Galleries Web links A Long Island Rail Road retiree from Oakdale on Tuesday pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to filing a phony disability claim with the...
View ArticlePedestrian hit by pickup in Hewlett parking lot
A 69-year-old pedestrian was seriously injured in Hewlett Wednesday afternoon when a pickup truck struck her as it turned into a parking lot, pinning her under the vehicle, police said. The woman,...
View ArticlePedestrian hit by pickup in parking lot
A 69-year-old pedestrian was seriously injured in Hewlett Wednesday afternoon when a pickup truck struck her as it turned into a parking lot, pinning her under the vehicle, police said. The woman,...
View ArticleTheodore Roosevelt group seeks new leader
The Oyster Bay-based Theodore Roosevelt Association, which has gone through several chief executives over the past decade, is again on the hunt for a new leader. The association has decided not to...
View Article'Passenger' to be charged in house crash
Photos Videos Driver charged with DWI after crash into house Galleries Web links...
View ArticleDWI charges to be dropped for woman in house crash
Photos Videos Driver charged with DWI after crash into house Galleries Web links...
View ArticleHuntington Station man found shot dead
Galleries Web links Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the shooting death early Wednesday of a Huntington Station man, Suffolk County police said. Second Precinct officers responded to an...
View ArticleZachary Parker sentenced to prison time
matthew.chayes@newsday.com A Merrick man at the center of a police-corruption scandal was sentenced to 1 to 3 years in prison after violating probation by driving with a suspended license and crashing...
View ArticleCops: Officer involved in Westbury shooting
Nassau County police were investigating an officer-involved shooting in Westbury late Tuesday afternoon that left a suspect wounded, they said. The shooting occurred near a Best Buy Store on Old...
View ArticleCops ID vehicle type in fatal hit-run
Galleries Web links Suffolk County police detectives on Wednesday said they have identified the make and model of a vehicle in the hit-and-run death of a pedestrian who was struck and dragged 500 feet...
View ArticlePolice: Brooklyn man shot in assault on cop
Videos Suspect shot in Westbury Galleries Web links A suspect in a rash of larcenies in the Westbury area was shot once Tuesday by a Nassau County police officer after he slammed the door of his...
View ArticleJohn Grega's defense lawyer quits case
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- A lawyer whose eight years of free work helped get a Lake Ronkonkoma man out of a Vermont prison quit the case Tuesday after a judge ruled he could not serve as public defender....
View ArticleJohn Grega's defense lawyer quits case after being denied public defender...
Galleries Web links BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- A lawyer whose eight years of free work helped get a Lake Ronkonkoma man out of a Vermont prison quit the case Tuesday after a judge ruled he could not serve as...
View ArticleIslip residents offer budget advice to close $26M gap
Videos Bellone: Suffolk in fiscal emergency Galleries They came by email, on Facebook and Twitter, and through the postal service. Some came by phone, and others in face-to-face exchanges. When Islip...
View ArticleJohn Grega's defense attorney quits case
Galleries Web links BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- A lawyer whose eight years of free work helped get a Lake Ronkonkoma man out of a Vermont prison quit the case Tuesday after a judge ruled he could not serve as...
View ArticleNFL Films president Steve Sabol dies at 69
Galleries Steve Sabol, the best man in the storied marriage between pro football and video, died Tuesday, 18 months after learning he had brain cancer and 13 after introducing his father, Ed, at his...
View ArticleNorthport Village board opposes post office plan
The Northport Village Board of Trustees has officially joined heated opposition to a plan that would give the downtown post office and its mail carriers a change of address. The board Tuesday night...
View ArticleNorthport village opposes post office plan
The Northport Village board of trustees has officially joined heated opposition to a plan that would give the downtown post office and its mail carriers a change of address. The board last night...
View ArticleOnline petition urges Silver's resignation
ALBANY -- Republicans launched an online petition Tuesday calling on Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to resign in the wake of the Assemb. Vito Lopez scandal. State GOP chairman Ed Cox, who previously...
View ArticleSantiago Carrillo, communist leader, dies
MADRID -- Santiago Carrillo, a veteran Spanish Communist Party leader and Civil War combatant who spent 38 years in exile, has died. He was 97. The Spanish Communist Party said in a statement...
View ArticlePrison for E. Northport man in school fraud
A Long Island technology expert was sentenced to more than three years in prison Tuesday for ripping off $1.7 million from the New York City Department of Education through overbillings under a...
View ArticleSource: Call about hijackers spurred JFK planes' search
The telephone call that sparked Port Authority police and the FBI to search three planes for bombs Monday at Kennedy Airport started with a caller saying hijackers had boarded aircraft by way of the...
View ArticleGreenport hearing on Plum Island sale plan
The federal government has scheduled a public hearing in Greenport next month to discuss its plan to sell Plum Island after its animal disease laboratory closes. The General Services Administration...
View ArticleRussell Train, former EPA chief, dies
WASHINGTON -- Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Russell Train, a leading American conservationist who helped craft some of the nation's enduring environmental laws, died Monday at...
View ArticleBrother of suspect in nun's death arrested
The brother of the fugitive suspected in the hit-and-run death of a nun in Water Mill has been arrested and charged with lying to federal investigators, officials said Tuesday. Miguel Ixpec-Chitay was...
View ArticleDWI charges dropped for woman in house crash
Drunken driving charges against the Brooklyn woman accused of plowing her boyfriend's parents' Mercedes-Benz convertible through a Huntington house will be dropped because Suffolk prosecutors have...
View ArticleAcquitted of 1984 murder, 3 men want $190M
Three men who spent 17 years behind bars after being convicted of one of Long Island's most notorious murders in 1984 will be back in court Wednesday, this time as plaintiffs demanding $190 million...
View ArticleCops think Freeport street attacks related
Galleries Web links Investigators suspect a rash of street attacks Sunday night in Freeport are related, Nassau County police said Tuesday. The robbery and attempted robberies, including an attack...
View ArticleFees, cuts part of Nassau's $2.79B budget
Videos Nassau's budget deficit NIFA's vote on Nassau 2012 budget Galleries Web links...
View ArticleLong Beach mulls another tax increase
Videos Nassau's budget deficit NIFA's vote on Nassau 2012 budget Galleries Long Beach will consider a midyear tax increase, hoping the move will send a message to the State Senate that the city needs...
View ArticleLong Beach mulls 14.5 percent tax increase
Videos Nassau's budget deficit NIFA's vote on Nassau 2012 budget Galleries Long Beach will consider a double-digit midyear tax increase, hoping the move will send a message to the State Senate that...
View ArticlePrivate investor eyed to buy Nassau's debt
Videos Nassau's budget deficit NIFA's vote on Nassau 2012 budget Galleries Nassau is proposing a novel plan for a private investor to buy $20 million in county debt to get around Democrats who blocked...
View ArticleMangano budget cuts youth, seniors, disabled
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano's 2013 budget calls for spending cuts for departments serving youth, seniors and the disabled, increases for housing and parks and new fees for small business...
View ArticleTax refund companies give thousands to pols
Residential tax refund companies have become politically involved, directing hundreds of thousands of dollars to local candidates and political committees on Long Island in the past four years. State...
View ArticleCops: Officer shoots suspect in Westbury
Galleries Web links Nassau County police were investigating an officer-involved shooting in Westbury late Tuesday afternoon that left a suspect wounded in the leg, they said. The shooting occurred at...
View ArticleChild hit by fence at Bayville beach dies
Officials continued to investigate Tuesday's death of an 18-month-old boy, killed after a section of metal fence fell on his head at a Bayville beach. Phillip Amico had been playing near the...
View ArticleArtifacts bring Roosevelt'slife into focus
The damage to the leather-covered metal eyeglass case isn't initially obvious. But a closer look reveals an entry hole from a bullet in one corner with a matching exit hole on the other side. The case...
View ArticleArtifacts bring Roosevelt's life into focus
Galleries The damage to the leather-covered metal eyeglass case isn't initially obvious. But a closer look reveals an entry hole from a bullet in one corner with a matching exit hole on the other...
View ArticleArtifacts tell inside story of Teddy Roosevelt assassination attempt
Galleries It isn't initially obvious what caused the damage to the leather-covered metal eyeglass case. But a closer look reveals an entry hole from a bullet in one corner with a matching exit hole on...
View ArticleCops probe Roosevelt street robbery
Galleries Web links Police are investigating a Wednesday morning Roosevelt street robbery in which a 72-year-old man was attacked and injured. The victim was getting into his car outside his Ronald...
View ArticleCops investigate Roosevelt drive-by shooting
Galleries Web links Police are investigating a Thursday night drive-by shooting in Roosevelt in which the victim was shot in the arm. The 20-year-old man was driving his Jeep Cherokee on Taylor Avenue...
View ArticleRoosevelt HS sets uniform dress code
Tank tops and saggy jeans are out. Khaki slacks and knee-length skirts are in. Roosevelt High School has established a uniform dress code for its 700 students this year -- by all accounts, the only...
View ArticleTeddy Roosevelt's note to son
Videos Celebrating Teddy Roosevelt's 152nd birthday 100th anniversary of President Roosevelt's African safari Map The director of the National Park Service will come to Oyster Bay on Thursday to mark...
View ArticleTeddy Roosevelt's note to son donated
Videos Celebrating Teddy Roosevelt's 152nd birthday 100th anniversary of President Roosevelt's African safari Map The director of the National Park Service will come to Oyster Bay on Thursday to mark...
View ArticleCops: Man charged in Roosevelt pipe attack
Galleries Web links Where View large map > A Freeport man faces an assault charge after hitting another man in the head with a metal pipe Sunday outside a Roosevelt bar, Nassau County police said....
View ArticleMuseum restoration features Teddy Roosevelt statue
Photos (AP) -- Theodore Roosevelt had a lifelong association with the American Museum of Natural History that began when he was a young boy and donated 12 mice, a bat, a turtle, four bird eggs and the...
View ArticleMuseum restores shrine to Teddy Roosevelt
The life and times of Oyster Bay's Theodore Roosevelt, the nation's 26th president and foremost 20th-century conservationist, were commemorated Thursday with the unveiling of a $40-million face-lift...
View ArticleCops probe robbery of pedestrian in Roosevelt
Police are investigating the robbery Tuesday night of a pedestrian in Roosevelt. The 37-year-old victim was walking north on Forest Avenue at the Babylon Turnpike intersection at 8:30 p.m. when three...
View ArticleTwo sought in attempted robbery
Galleries Web links First Squad detectives are looking for two masked men who tried to rob a teenage boy at knifepoint Tuesday in Roosevelt, Nassau County police said. Police said the victim, 16, was...
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