Train service will be suspended for switch surfacing, drainage and rail replacement work
MTA Long Island Rail Road customers planning to ride the Far Rockaway Branch this Saturday evening through …
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10/5/11
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A New York state court ruled this week against Martin Heidgen’s appeal to have his murder conviction reduced to manslaughter, for driving drunk the wrong way on the Meadowbrook Parkway in 2005 and killing two people.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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9/16/11
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Ed Thompson has ensured that his son’s memory will stay alive for a long time. Glenn Thompson was 44 when he was killed on Sep- tember 11 in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. His body was never recovered.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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9/9/11
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A group of local dentists volunteered last week to help get kids on their way to building healthy teeth.
Seventy-five dentists from the Nassau County Dental Society, with the help of …
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by Mike Caputo
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2/9/11
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A Nassau County Board of Elections worker has been charged with forging a petition for a County Legislature candidate in 2009. The District Attorney’s office has accused 27-year-old Imtiaz Insanally, of Valley Stream, with writing false addresses on a nominating petition.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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2/8/11
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Final part in the series “Plugging the Brain Drain.”
“We don’t want to see our young people leave,” said Island Park Mayor Jim Ruzicka. “That’s our future.”
Ruzicka and others …
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Alex Costello
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12/8/10
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Second of two parts.
On Aug. 28, 1963, Booker T. Gibson made his way to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. “It was hot. In August, it was hot,” Gibson said during a recent interview, stressing the word “hot.”
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Scott Brinton
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12/7/10
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Gather up your little goblins, conjure up some creative costumes and prepare some scary, scrumptious sweets for a great ghostly gathering. Involve everyone in fun-to-make (and to eat) Halloween recipes that are
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Karen Bloom
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10/28/10
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Oceanside knocked off East Meadow in a battle of 3-0 teams in Conference I, West Hempstead won its second straight in Conference III, and East Rockaway moved to 3-1 in Conference IV.
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Tony Bellissimo and Andrew McClure
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10/2/10
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Weekend service on the Long Island Rail Road will be extremely limited throughout October and November as the LIRR Modernization Project brings signal and switch-control work to Jamaica …
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Lee Landor
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9/28/10
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