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Mostly Cloudy Hempstead man indicted for Stop & Shop shooting in West Hempstead
A 31-year-old Hempstead man, Gabriel DeWitt Wilson, was indicted on murder, attempted murder and weapons charges on Friday for a shooting at a Stop & Shop in West Hempstead on April …
Sacred Heart teen beats college grads in research contest
A Hempstead teenager has turned an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic into a winning investigative science project. Kaylin Spinelli, of St. Pauls Place, is a junior at Sacred Heart …
An arresting lesson in Nassau County police work
A Signal 15 comes in over the radio: A stolen vehicle used in a felony — perhaps a bank robbery, maybe a kidnapping — has been pulled over. Officers must quickly assess the situation: Is the vehicle occupant armed? Hostile? Ready to run?
NYPD officials: Hempstead mother kills officer while driving drunk
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On Monday evening, April 26, Jessica Beauvais, of Hempstead, was speaking on her weekly podcast about the recent police killings of unarmed Black Americans. Hours later, New York Police Department …
Car parade to honor West Hempstead's Stop & Shop victims
Dozens of cars filled more than half of the parking lot at the National Wholesale Liquidators site in West Hempstead in preparation for a heartfelt car parade last Sunday. Residents, accompanied …
Partnering organizations celebrate a new homeowner in Hempstead
Kimberly Style cut a red ribbon tied to the front porch pillars of her new home, 68 Webb Avenue in Hempstead at a news conference on April 14. Seven years before, Style and her two children, …
Op-Ed
Racial inequities and the Biden infrastructure plan
President Biden’s proposed $2 trillion infrastructure plan is remarkable for its ambition and breadth and for taking significant steps to address historic racial inequities. The president deserves great credit . . .
Editorial
L.I. is making strides on the environmental front
April 22 is Earth Day, when we come together as a nation — and a planet — to celebrate the natural world and renew our vows to protect the environment from harm. In honor of Earth Day five years ago . . .
Scott Brinton
The story that haunts me all these years later
I covered the Bellmore-JFK High School Homecoming parade in the fall of 2004. It was a sunny day, full of carefree teenagers. I could never have imagined then that that day would haunt me still.
Randi Kreiss
Just another day in America: Eight shot dead
I don’t care if you are numb to this outrage. I don’t care if I’m numb to it. From where I sit, the carnage from gun violence in America, the continuing, ongoing, shocking deaths by gun, move to the head of the must-do list for this new administration.
Op-Ed
The tyranny of false equivalencies
My March 4-10 column, “Voting is an act of choice and an expression of voice,” prompted a note from someone who wanted to talk about threats to democracy. He leads a group of citizens . . .