Babylon News

U.S. troops and contractors in Iraq inflicted serious damage on Babylon, driving heavy machinery over sacred paths, bulldozing hilltops and digging trenches through one of the world's greatest archaeological sites, experts for UNESCO said Thursday.

In August of 2008, the Long Island town of Babylon, New York approved the Long Island Green Homes program to finance energy efficiency improvements for any of the towna TMs 65,000 single-family homes to be paid back by the energy savings accrued from the improvements.

Long Island's Nassau County is reporting a second death linked to swine flu. County health officials on Tuesday said a minor with multiple underlying medical conditions died on July 1. The minor had been hospitalized since June 25.

The Town of Babylon announced last week it plans to extend public sewers from West Babylon into Wyandanch , a move intended to spur economic revitalization of the community's business district.

A fifth Suffolk County resident with a confirmed case of swine flu has died, the county's health department said Monday.

SUFFOLK COUNTY Police charged a Babylon man for driving while intoxicated after he was involved in a crash that caused serious injury to a motorcycle operator, early Saturday morning.

A lifelong Long Island boat enthusiast died yesterday after the sailboat he and his wife were piloting capsized during a race in Suffolk County, authorities said.

Police say a New York man has died after his boat capsized during a regatta on Long Island's Great South Bay.

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The use of alternative, green energy sources and advanced ways to save it got a thorough update Tuesday at a seminar at Vassar College.

"Never give in, never give in, never, never- in nothing, great or small, large or petty- never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

HAUPPAUGE Suffolk County Health Services Commissioner Dr. Humayun Chaudhry announced the death of an adult resident confirmed to have the novel H1N1 Influenza A virus, commonly known as 'swine flu', making this the third death associated with H1N1 in Suffolk County.

A motorcyclist and his passenger who collided with a moving Jeep in North Babylon Saturday afternoon are hospitalized with "multiple fractures," Suffolk County police said.

FBI agents staged raids Thursday on six locations in Suffolk, Nassau and Queens as part of a crackdown on drug dealers believed to be supplying street gangs on Long Island , according to court documents and sources.

Two separate robberies of Chinese food delivery men occurred in the past two days, according to Suffolk County police.

BINGHAMTON - A new loan program to help Binghamton property owners make energy efficiency improvements, including weatherization, is a step closer to becoming a reality, city officials said Friday.

Police on Long Island are investigating two separate attacks in which Chinese food deliverymen were robbed and beaten.

Carl Klinkenborg, left, and his wife Gigha had their wedding ceremony at Stonehenge in west England, during summer solstice early Saturday.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy 's hardball resolution to lay off seven police officers was sent to the full legislature yesterday, but without committee endorsement as some members worried about the impact of cutting $5.5 million from the police salary budget.

Novice golfers Eddie and Beverly Fried of Old Bethpage are reluctant to play at Bethpage State Park - even though the famously challenging golf course is practically in their backyard.