Dan Babich’s family didn’t see any of the signs a suicidal person might display before he took his own life at the Valley Stream deli he owned on May 1. He was 25.
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By Micah Danney mdanney@liherald.com
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9/30/15
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The Long Island Crisis Center held its 7th annual suicide awareness walk on the boardwalk at Laurelton Boulevard last Sunday. The walk is the center’s culminating event on Long Island …
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By Matthew Ern
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9/24/15
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Since April is National Volunteer Month, let’s consider what volunteering really is: a vital part of every community . . .
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4/16/15
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Kristofer Goldsmith, 29, compiled yet another thick packet of documents to be sent to the Army Discharge Review Board last weekend. The Bellmore native, who now lives in Long Beach, has appealed his …
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By Julie Mansmann
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3/13/15
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After a trying deployment in Iraq in 2005, former U.S. Army Sgt. Kristofer Goldsmith suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. By 2007, the psychic pain seemed inescapable for the Bellmore …
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By Julie Mansmann
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12/17/14
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Mepham High School’s Key Club and kickline team recently joined in the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s “Out of the Darkness Walk” at Old Westbury Gardens.
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12/3/14
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June 24 was a terrible day for Jackie Fiorello and her family. After a months-long search for help for her nephew John Rosati, a 20-year-old who had moved into their Baldwin home three years earlier, Rosati took his own life.
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By Brian Croce
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10/22/14
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Kenneth Minor, the Harlem resident who helped Woodmere resident Jeffrey Locker kill himself in 2008, plead guilty to first-degree manslaughter in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Sept. 29. Minor will be sentenced to 12 years in prison.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/30/14
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Kenneth Minor, the Harlem resident who helped Woodmere resident Jeffrey Locker kill himself in 2008, was expected to plead guilty to a manslaughter charge on Aug. 25, but it was delayed until next month.
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By Jeff Bessen
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8/25/14
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If the tragic death of Robin Williams shows us anything, it’s that depression can affect anyone — even those who seem the most successful, the most well off, the happiest.
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8/20/14
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