Dix Hills News

In many cases the contributions are made mistakenly - such as when a nonprofit organization buys a ticket for a dinner held by a politician that is categorized as a campaign expense.

SOON after Marcelo Lucero , an Ecuadorean immigrant, was stabbed to death in Patchogue last year, James Garcia Sotomayor, a filmmaker who lives in nearby Brentwood, got a worried phone call from his mother, who lives in his native Ecuador.

Brooke Lavoti, 3, of Lindenhurst and Jocelyn Forseth, 3, of North Babylon , pose for Newsday in their Halloween costumes at the Flick & Treat Festival at Newsday in Melville .

Hills who says her condominium complex discriminated against her by stopping her from displaying a 4-inch mezuzah on her front door has won a case taken on by state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo .

In 2005, Huntington Supervisor Frank Petrone told Newsday's editorial board that if he won, it would be his last term.

July 10, 2009: Carle Place , L.I. After a day shopping in May 2007, Johanne and a friend stopped by Mocha, a Harlem nightspot.

Photo credit: J. Conrad Williams Jr. The Wantagh State Parkway has a higher-than-average rate of off-road crashes.

Students from Half Hollow High School East and Half Hollow High School West in Dix Hills are taking Yankees spirit up several knotches.

Earlier this month, Gail King of Dix Hills was crowned Ms. Senior America 2009 at the national final competition in Atlantic City. The annual pageant spotlights and honors women, age 60 and older, who best exemplify what senior women can do and accomplish. Contestants are judged on poise, talent, elegance and life philosophy.

LIE eastbound, off the Round Swamp Road exit. An accident involving multiple cars tied up eastbound traffic Tuesday afternoon on the Long Island Expressway between the Melville and Dix Hills exits, the Suffolk Sheriff's office said.

Incumbent Republican Steve Labriola is facing challenger Democrat John Capobianco in the race for Town of Oyster Bay Clerk.

Five Towns College in Dix Hills , N.Y., is holding an open house event on its main campus on Saturday, October 17, 2009.

Tobias Harris, the nation's No. 1-rated power forward, had one question he wanted answered during his official visit to Tennessee.

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Legislator Jon Cooper, above, and Frank Stalzer are vying for votes to represent Suffolk County's 18th district.

Share + Oct 8, 2009 6:09 pm US/Eastern Reporting Lou Young NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly faced tough questions Thursday night about the terror plot uncovered in New York City.

Half Hollow Hills High School West in Dix Hills, has transformed a love of sports into a way to enrich the lives of others young and old.

Former Radio City Music Hall Rockette and current dance instructor Mia Price teaches a class in Rockette tap dancing at A Dancer's Studio in Huntington.

Scores of military veterans, public officials and Suffolk residents paid tribute Saturday to U.S. service members killed in action and stood in solidarity with their families at the unveiling of the county's Gold Star Families monument outside government offices in Hauppauge.

Thomas Young kneels near some feral cats on his property in Westhampton. The plaintive meows of a trapped cat tipped off Thomas Young that something wasn't right under his neighbor's Westhampton summer home.