A vollely of bullets rang through an unsuspecting crowd of partygoers at an illegal underage party at Ocean Avenue in Valley Stream on Aug 21 at 8:30 p.m., according to police officials. The shooter …
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By Juan Lasso
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8/22/23
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The nation’s largest police department held high hopes for its new Commissioner Keechant Sewell. Sewell, a Queens native and Valley Stream resident, served as the chief of detectives in the …
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By Juan Lasso
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6/25/23
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A dilapidated police booth in front of the Gibson Long Island Rail Road station, with its chipped wooden door and white-stained, blocked-up windows, has long since seen brighter days. But that all …
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By Juan Lasso
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9/1/22
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Schools aren’t the only places holding graduations. Nearly 60 police academy recruits walked across their own stage last week after completing an intensive seven-month training to join the …
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By Karina Kovac
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7/7/22
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“How do we keep our children safe?”
It’s a question on the mind of parents seemingly every day as they send their youngsters off to school and out into the world.
That …
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By Karina Kovac
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6/2/22
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Ron Walsh, a high-ranking veteran Nassau County police officer, was to be sworn in Friday as Long Beach’s new top cop after a farewell ceremony at Nassau police headquarters.
Instead, …
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By James Bernstein
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1/14/21
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The New York Times reported last week that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was weighing the use of federal grant money to arm teachers across the country.
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8/30/18
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When President Trump touted his efforts to eradicate the El Salvadoran gang MS-13 at a May 23 forum in Bethpage, he said that the threat gang members pose can be solved with immigration law reform.
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5/31/18
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Members of the El Salvadoran gang MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, have threatened Nassau County and Village of Hempstead police officers, according to County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder.
The threats follow the extradition from Maryland this week of Miguel Angel Corea Diaz, known on the street as “the Reaper,” an MS-13 kingpin who is the gang’s highest-ranking member on the East Coast.
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By Nadya Nataly, Christina Daly and Scott Brinton
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4/20/18
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Three members of the Latin Kings street gang were sentenced today for brutally stabbing, beating and kidnapping a member of the Bloods street gang who had entered the window of a Valley Stream home to collect his girlfriend’s belongings in March 2016.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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5/10/17
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