One of Long Island’s largest nonprofit substance-abuse treatment agencies received three grants this winter that officials said will help them teach young people about the dire consequences of …
more
By Julie Mansmann
|
1/21/15
|
Nassau County Legislator Dave Denenberg, the Merrick Democrat accused by his former law firm of over-billing a corporate client for millions of dollars, was due in federal court on Jan. 21, after press time, to answer eight federal mail fraud charges.
more
By Scott Brinton and Brian Racow
|
1/20/15
|
Patients should stop thinking of powerful pain medications like Oxycontin and Vycodin as slightly stronger versions of Tylenol and Advil. Rather, they should think of them as “heroin pills.”
That’s according to Dr. Andrew Kolodny, president of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing and chief medical officer for Phoenix House, a national, nonprofit drug treatment agency.
more
By Scott Brinton
|
9/18/14
|
Every day, 2,500 teens across the country, ages 12 to 17, get high off prescription drugs, and 70 percent of them obtain their narcotics from family members or friends –– most often by swiping them from bathroom medicine cabinets, according to Wendy Tepfer, executive director of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center.
more
By Scott Brinton
|
9/10/14
|
The older adults participating in the Town of Hempstead’s Senior Writing Workshop presented their original works recently at the Merrick Theater and Center for the Arts.
more
By Casey Pinner
|
7/18/14
|
Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray came to the Bellmore Long Island Rail Road station on Tuesday to call on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to rethink a plan to bus train commuters …
more
By Scott Brinton
|
6/25/14
|
Hundreds of Long Islanders are set to gather in North Bellmore this weekend at the Nassau County Strawberry Festival, sponsored by the Bellmore Lions and Kiwanis clubs.
more
By Julie Mansmann
|
5/28/14
|
Most pundits agreed: Mitt Romney won the first of three presidential debates in 2012, held at the University of Denver on Oct. 3. President Obama, whose rhetorical skills were the stuff of political legend, appeared tired, and in the weeks after the debate, his poll numbers plummeted.
more
By Scott Brinton
|
3/5/14
|
A former Nassau County Police detective who faced criminal charges for his role in preventing the arrest of a Merrick teenager whose father was a personal friend and financial benefactor of a police foundation pleaded guilty to official misconduct on Monday.
more
By Julie Mansmann
|
2/25/14
|
A Bellmore man was recently indicted for his alleged role in what officials described as a massive fraud against the federal Social Security Disability Insurance benefits program, which resulted in the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money.
more
By Julie Mansmann
|
1/20/14
|