In Spike Lee’s masterful “BlackkKlansman,” based on the memoir by Ron Stallworth, Colorado Springs’ first African-American police officer and undercover detective, we see racism in its most ugly form . . .
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12/14/18
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Two alleged MS-13 members on Thursday were charged with the deaths of victims found buried in densely wooded areas on Nassau County’s South Shore.
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By Nadya Nataly and Anthony O’Reilly
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9/6/18
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A Roosevelt teenager has been arrested and charged in connection with the alleged MS-13 murder of another Roosevelt teen whose body Nassau County police discovered in a secluded woodland two weeks …
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By Scott Brinton and Nadya Nataly
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6/15/18
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Human remains were found at Cow Meadow Park in Freeport on Wednesday, according to the FBI’s Long Island Gang Task Force and Nassau County police. The discovery follows another recent case in which a Freeport High School teen was found dead in nearby Roosevelt, likely the victim of the notorious El Salvadoran gang MS-13.
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By Nadya Nataly
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10/25/17
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I made a pilgrimage in August to a shining house on a hill surrounded by lush forests. Below was a valley where apple trees grew in neat rows. In the distance was a wide river. This place, this magical place, was an oasis of calm, a landscape perfectly suited for introspection.
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9/14/17
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I don’t usually quote the Bible in my column, but the future of Belmont Park brings to mind the words of Ecclesiastes 3 (King James version).
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8/17/17
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For decades now, at the beginning of every presidency, the media and even the president himself have become obsessed with . . .
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5/4/17
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Even though I’ve always been involved in politics, I don’t come from a family where politics dominated the nightly dinner-table discussions.
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3/23/17
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Three teens were arrested Thursday for allegedly stealing multiple cars in Bellmore and Roosevelt.
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By Erik Hawkins
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2/24/17
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The day was picture-perfect. White clouds dotted the blue sky, shading the 75 people who had gathered on the sprawling lawn of President Theodore Roosevelt’s “summer White House,” Sagamore Hill, in Oyster Bay.
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By Laura Lane
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12/15/16
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