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The Freeport High School football team defeated Baldwin 54-13 during their homecoming celebrations on Oct. 12.

Freeport High School Red Devils dominated the field and defeated the Baldwin Bruins 54-13 on Oct. 12 during this year’s homecoming game. The festivities kicked off with the district’s homecoming … more

10/17/19

Woodward Children’s Center administrators and teachers received trauma-informed school certification from Starr Commonwealth on Sept. 26.

Confronting the traumatic: Woodward School receives special certification

Woodward Children’s Center, on Merrick Road in Freeport, is among the first schools in New York state to be certified as a “trauma-informed” school. Woodward officials announced the … more

By Nadya Nataly | 10/17/19

Police surrounded the crime scene after a brawl at an Oceanside strip mall left 16-year-old Khaseen Morris dead.

Long Beach teens indicted for gang assault

At least five Long Beach teens have been indicted by a Nassau County grand jury on Tuesday for second-degree gang assault charges in connection with a brawl that left an Oceanside student … more

By Darwin Yanes | 10/9/19

A Sportsman Avenue house collapsed Monday, officials said, because of strong winds.

House under construction collapses in Freeport

A house that was under construction in Freeport collapsed Monday, officials said, because of strong winds.The framework of the two-story building, located on Sportsman Avenue, collapsed at around … more

10/8/19

Protesters in front of J.W. Dodd Middle School, in Freeport, demanded that the license of any teacher who commits a racist act be revoked. Their calls came after an unidentified Freeport teacher asked her students to write funny captions underneath photos of post-Reconstruction sharecroppers who had previously been slaves.

Protesters: Freeport teacher should be fired

Freeport parents, clergy members and neighboring Long Islanders rallied in front of J.W. Dodd Middle School on Pine Street in Freeport on Tuesday, demanding that the Freeport School District fire an eighth-grade social studies teacher who required students to write humorous captions under photographs of former slaves. more

By Nadya Nataly | 10/2/19

Khaseen Morris's friends from Freeport High School gathered inside Towers Funeral Home in Oceanside and viewed the memorial video that highlighted photographs and videos of Morris over the years.

Community in mourning: Saying goodbye to Khaseen Morris

Hundreds of mourners filled Towers Funeral Home in Oceanside on Saturday morning to view the open casket of Khaseen Morris, surrounded by flowers and banners, including one that read, “Speak the truth even if your voice shakes." Morris's family attributed the quote to him. more

By Nadya Nataly | 9/28/19

Sacred Heart Academy will celebrate its 70th anniversary on Sunday at 10 a.m.

Sacred Heart Academy to celebrate 70 years on Sunday

When Sacred Heart Academy in Hempstead opened as the Mary Louis Academy Annex in 1949, the school had 58 students. Seventy years later, the all-girls school has a student body of more than 850. While … more

By Nakeem Grant | 9/20/19

Tyler Flach, of Lido Beach, 18, was charged with second-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of 16-year-old Khaseen Morris.

18-year-old Lido Beach resident charged in stabbing death of Oceanside teen

Eighteen-year-old Tyler Flach, of Lido Beach, will face a second-degree murder charge for the stabbing death of Oceanside teen Khaseen Morris, according to Nassau County police. Morris died after … more

By Darwin Yanes | 9/19/19

Dimitri Garrett went to school with Kaseem Morris. He and his mother, Erica, brought a box of candles and some flowers for people to light.

'Love was Khaseen': Vigils honor slain Oceanside teen

The girls huddled together, crying in one another’s arms at the candlelight vigil for Khaseen Morris on Tuesday night in front of the China King and A Day Cleaners on Brower Avenue, near Oceanside … more

By Nadya Nataly | 9/19/19

Khaseen Morris, 16, was stabbed during a fight at a strip mall on Brower Avenue in Oceanside on Monday night and later died from his injuries.

Police arrest Lido Beach teen in stabbing death

Updated, 6 p.m., Sept. 17: A 16-year-old Oceanside student is dead after he was stabbed multiple times Monday afternoon during a brawl involving as many as a couple dozen teenagers at an Oceanside strip mall, Nassau County police said. more

By Briana Bonfiglio, Darwin Yanes, Christina Daly and Anthony Rifilato | 9/16/19

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