Nearly 25 years have passed since Colin Ferguson stepped onto a Long Island Rail Road train in Mineola and started indiscriminately firing a 9mm pistol at passengers. Six were killed and 19 wounded. Kevin McCarthy, then 26 and a broker with Prudential Securities in New York City, took a bullet to the head, but he survived. His left arm remains partially paralyzed.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/24/18
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Ana Wagner, 37, of Lynbrook, paints a portrait of her childhood that she shares with her three children. She tells them about her life growing up in Brooklyn, that she was the smallest girl in her classes and that she maintained straight “A’s” throughout elementary school. The picture she paints, however, skips over a three-year segment of her story during which she was sexually abused by a friend of her father.
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By Brian Stieglitz
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3/19/18
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A Merrick man was arrested for allegedly punching a man and running over another with his car in Farmingdale on Feb. 18.
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2/21/18
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Occasionally, fortune cookie wisdom is spot on.
On Aug. 8, the last day of the summer research season at Stony Brook University’s Garcia Center, Lawrence High School project team members Roshan Reddy, Jerry Reyes and Nicholas Williams were eating Chinese food.
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By Jeff Bessen
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10/26/17
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More than 600 students were expected to line the driveway of St. William the Abbot School in Seaford on Wednesday morning, passing boxes packed with 6,500 envelopes, to Seaford Postmaster Richard …
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By Julie Mansmann
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4/11/17
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Adults and Children with Learning and Developmental Disabilities held its 31st annual Employment Recognition Breakfast at Carlyle on the Green in Farmingdale recently, where an employee from The Home Depot in East Meadow was honored with a special award.
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12/14/16
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Nassau County Police Department reported the arrest of two men for robbery on Wednesday, July 20, at 12:30 a.m. in East Meadow.
According to detectives, a female victim, 26, was sitting in her car …
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8/3/16
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A Farmingdale State sophomore from Baldwin recorded her first career triple-double as the women’s basketball team earned a 78-41 conference victory at Yeshiva.
Guard Tyra Harrison finished the …
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1/27/16
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A SUNY Farmingdale basketball player from Baldwin was named player of the week for two consecutive weeks.
Sophomore guard Tyra Harrison of Baldwin earned Skyline Conference Player of the Week …
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12/22/15
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Warren Tierney, of Seaford, has a leading role in the musical comedy “Reefer Madness,” which will be performed the next two weekends at Farmingdale State College. Tierney, a sophomore, plays the role of college dropout Ralph.
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11/11/15
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