Central Islip News

Gunshot vistim Wilson Batista Jr. comes home from hospital after five months. where view large map Five months and four different hospital stays after he was shot in the face while playing basketball in a Brentwood park, Wilson Batista Jr.

Dr. Frank Pollaro of Babylon has been suspended from South Nassau Communities Hospital after police said he admitted to downloading images of child pornography.

The Central Islip man wounded by an off-duty New York City cop after a bar fight was attacked by the officer and others and then shot as the fight ended, the man's attorney said.

Police investigate a crime scene at Napper Tandy's Irish Pub in Miller Place early Thursday morning.

Franklin Xavier Gallimore, 20, was shot twice while standing in his driveway with a friend, according to the report.

The children of a Long Island mother - accused of killing dogs and burying them in a makeshift graveyard - have been removed from her home.

Marissa Luchs Kindler knows she cana t help everyone who approaches her or walks through the doors of the Nassau/Suffolk Law Services Committee in Central Islip.

This week I'm going to start my column a little differently because I think it is important to recognize the hard work, determination and leadership of Sally Pope.

Lisa Donay, a worker at Pet Supplies/Grooming in Farmingville , holds a cocker spaniel that was rescued from a Selden woman's home.

A judge has taken away custody of a Long Island woman's six underage daughters following her arrest on animal cruelty charges.

A Selden woman is facing animal cruelty charges after being accused of killing more than 20 dogs and burying them in her backyard, Suffolk County SPCA officials said Monday.

Authorities in New York say a woman who had about 20 dead dogs buried in her backyard on Long Island faces a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge.

The suit filed by senior account clerk Karin Filippi in U.S. District Court in Central Islip also accuses the Elmont Union Free School District of threatening to discipline her, assigning her additional duties, intimidating her, limiting her vacation time and transferring her to a lower-level position.

Nicholas Hausch appears in court in Riverhead earlier this year. Thursday, he pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the hate killing of Marcelo Lucero .

Bayman Frank Sloup, of Bay Shore, stands with some of his crab traps. A federal jury has awarded $2.1 million in damages to "one of the last of the Suffolk baymen" who sued the Town of Islip and two of its former officials, claiming that they vindictively drove him out of business.

The firm, Morelli Ratner, cited "irreconcilable conflict" when applying to drop Patricia Dillon as a client.

Jeffrey Conroy, 17, right, is led out of Fifth Precinct in Patchogue with six other suspects for arraignment in Central Islip.

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Kathleen Prisco in police Custody...Suffolk homicide detectives Friday were investigating a homicide on Bob O Link Lane home in Fort Salonga, a police source said.

Oscar Ralda of Bay Shore is facing a cockfighting charge after roosters prepared for battle were found at his Bay Shore home.