The Nassau County Police Department is investigating reports that Island Park resident Lee Natale has been trapping neighborhood cats and relocating them to the Sands catering hall parking lot in … more

This year’s election brought about a change in Nassau County government, but the status of the Lighthouse project remains static and unclear. Ironically, Election Day fell exactly a month … more

The raw numbers have changed somewhat, but the results of the Long Beach City Council election remained the same after a Nassau County Board of Elections recount on Tuesday. After the board … more

“I’m using the church tomorrow to pick up my turkey,” Anne Jones of Long Beach, a single mother of four, said on Monday. “I never realized things like this were available to me.” Jones, … more

Even energetic, gorgeous, talented and sexy people have to rest sometime — and that's just what the cast of Broadway’s “Burn the Floor” did recently at the Malverne home of two of their … more

A power outage struck Long Beach at about 8 a.m. on Friday, knocking energy out in about 1,000 homes as well as the Long Beach Medical Center, according to the Long Island Power Authority. A LIPA … more

I've recently written a series of articles chronicling what it's like to be arrested for drunk driving in Nassau County. Though I've had the participation of the district attorney's office, Nassau County police and a number of defense attorneys, as well as input from many readers, one voice has been noticeably absent. Until now. more

Saul Lerner, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District athletic director, recently resigned his post as coordinator of the Nassau County Boys' Basketball Committee because, he said, the Section VIII Athletic Council rejected a proposal of his to fine-tune the seeding process that ultimately determines teams' playing schedules. In 2006, Lerner was the architect of an ability-grouping system that determined a team's conference by its record. Previously, teams were assigned to conferences without much regard to their records. Rather, officials used what they called the "snake," in which teams were seeded and then laid out on a grid that wound back and forth in serpentine fashion. more

Denise Ford suspected something was fishy when her son Gerard, a student at the University of Scranton, received his absentee ballot on Election Day. Ford, a Nassau county legislator from Long … more

Long Beach broker Joyce Coletti has had more closings since January, 45 in all, than she has had in many years in Long Beach. About 60 percent have involved first-time home buyers who have taken … more