On May 1, a Pakistani-born American citizen, Faisal Shahzad, attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square. His intent was simple — to kill innocent American citizens and create economic chaos.
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Al D'Amato
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5/13/10
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Heroin addicts describe their first high as the ultimate escape, a 20-hour fix starting with a pleasure rush that races from the tip of the tongue throughout the body and steadily progresses toward hallucinations that transfix a user in a state of semiconscious euphoria.
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4/23/10
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Police have arrested a suspect from East Meadow who allegedly exposed himself to a Mepham High School teen, and later made lewd gestures directed at Woodland Middle School students on Tuesday afternoon.
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Mike Caputo
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4/21/10
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Twenty-two people, including two Bellmore men and one Bellmore woman, were arrested last Tuesday and early Wednesday morning and charged in connection with a nationwide quaalude trafficking and distribution ring that went from Baldwin to Brooklyn to California.
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Sari Zeidler
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4/15/10
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Updated: 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Police have arrested a North Merrick School District custodian, Joseph Latona, 27, and charged him with sale and possession of heroin.
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Sari Zeidler and Scott Brinton
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3/17/10
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Police arrested an East Meadow woman on Saturday and charged her with selling drugs in her Jeep Cherokee, with her 2-year-old child in the back seat.
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Sari Zeidler
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2/22/10
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At 3:40 p.m. on Feb. 5, a 911 call was placed from the Rite Aid Pharmacy on Merrick Road in Bellmore. Two young women had allegedly stolen items from the store, authorities said. Nicole Castillo, 21, of Bellmore and Nicole Hughes, 22, of East Meadow, got into a 1998 Chrysler Sebring driven by Christopher Castillo, 23, of North Bellmore.
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Deirdre Krasula
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2/16/10
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Police responded to Merrick Avenue Middle School this morning at around 9:30 a.m. to investigate a threat made on Facebook that authorities called "fictitous."
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Sari Zeidler
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1/7/10
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A recent string of fires at Calhoun High School in North Merrick has prompted an arson investigation, officials say.
According to Vincent McManus, division supervisor at the Nassau County Fire Marshal's Office, there have been six suspicious fires at the school since Nov. 19, three of which the North Merrick Fire Department responded to.
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Sari Zeidler
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12/10/09
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Frank Carney, a 16-year-old from Bellmore, was arrested on Nov. 6 and charged with committing a hate crime in Merrick, police said.
According to authorities, a dark Nissan pulled up in front of a 22-year-old man walking on Alice Avenue in Merrick. Two people got out of the car, one armed with a knife, and began to chase the man, yelling anti-gay slurs.
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11/12/09
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