East Meadow News

A 21-year old Williston Park pizza parlor/Italian eatery has spawned a more sophisticated new offspring.

To those who knew him, Sgt. Juan Carlos Baldeosingh was both carefree and dutiful, a fun-loving joker who found military service so fulfilling that he enlisted twice.

The U.S. military says Army Sgt. Juan Carlos Baldeosingh was killed with four other soldiers in Baghdad when an IED hit their Humvee.

Two Long Island sisters are left with unspeakable grief and unanswered questions after learning their brother was one of the latest soldiers killed in Iraq.

A National Guardsman with Long Island roots was among the last four soldiers killed just before the U.S. pullback this week in Iraq.

In this week's issue, I write about Make Music New York , a city-wide jamboree of musical events that encompasses every imaginable genre.

Back in 2006, The Community Alliance first broached the subject, on this very blog, of a "fix" for the decline of Hempstead Town's most infamous thoroughfare, Hempstead Turnpike -- Long Island's "Twenty Miles of Ugly." Well, here we are, four years down the road, literally, and but for minor stretches of designated "streetscaping" -- where often ...

Through a stubborn mass of gray clouds, the June sun struggled to shine down on the fathers and sons teeing off at Eisenhower Park golf courses in East Meadow for Father's Day.

When Nassau County police officers attempted to arrest three suspects in a string of bank robberies in the Massapequa area, two of them surrendered without resistance.

In the following press release Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced today that an East Meadow attorney has been arrested and charged with three felonies after three victims accused him of stealing more than $100,000 of their money.

Marge of Greenlawn, on March 15, 2009. Loving wife of the late Eugene, formerly of Massapequa Park.

A Michigan man who believed he was a toddler kidnapped in New York in 1955 said he was "stunned" to learn DNA testing disproved his suspicion and that he's still seeking his true identity.

The New York state attorney general says he plans to sue a Long Island lawyer who allegedly collected pensions from six school districts.

The FBI last night squelched the claim by a Michigan man that he was the victim of an infamous child abduction on New York's Long Island more than half a century ago.

Three suspects have been arrested after they went on a bank robbery spree in Long Island on Friday, Nassau County Police said.

As the Michigan man who claims he may be the East Meadow boy who vanished from Long Island 54 years ago went public, his words and images sparked hopes while the man who raised him said his story is "bull." John Robert Barnes, of Kalkaska, Mich., said he hoped DNA test results will prove him right, as relatives of Steven Damman, the lost boy, clung ...

New York authorities have a lead in the mysterious disappearance of a 2-year-old boy outside a Long Island bakery 50 years ago.

Rising gas prices last year motivated Brenda Alvarez to switch from four wheels to two for her commute to Melville; she left her sport utility vehicle home and drove to and from work on a scooter.

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An emotionally disturbed man faces criminal charges after barricading himself inside his Massapequa home and firing a round into the ceiling during a four-hour standoff with police Friday morning, an official said.