East Meadow News

New York City schoolteachers, some of whom live on Long Island, found Friday that their most recent pension payments had been spirited out of their bank accounts by a computer glitch.

Under the deal, Reich agreed to forfeit any claims to pension credits earned after he was falsely reported as a full-time employee of five Long Island school districts at the same time.

The pregnant East Meadow mother, scheduled to deliver twins by Caesarean section next Thursday, had been unable to find any doctor who could give her the H1N1 vaccine - even though pregnant women are at the top of the government's list of who should get the shot.

Lawsuit at Hooters: $5.45 for orange hot pants, $6 for the tight-fitting Lycra tank top, $3.25 for a pouch, $2.50 for suntan pantyhose and $2.25 for thick white socks.

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 .

Bella, of East Meadow, will show off her human-like talents on America's Funniest Home Videos this Sunday.

Thousands of residents who live in East Meadow, Westbury, Uniondale and Garden City were without power on Tuesday night.

Keisha Hicks, right, is consoled near the home on Jackson Street where her good friend Queen Mobley was stabbed to death.

Current Hempstead Town Councilmember Gary Hudes is being challenged for his 6th Councilmatic District seat by Matt Hynes.

Share + Oct 21, 2009 7:11 pm US/Eastern Reporting Lou Young NORTH BELLMORE, N.Y. There's a disturbing new burglary pattern emerging on Long Island.

The dead man, identified by police as Jamel Hernandez, 18, is the brother of Cody Hernandez, a reputed member of the Crips who is serving 3 1/2 to 10 years in prison for the 2008 shooting of a rival Blood in Roosevelt during a dispute over a cell phone.

There were no arrests. Freeport police said they received as many as 10 calls of multiple shots fired at about 7 p.m., referring them to the vicinity of the intersection of Union and Independence avenues.

Villeda, of Hempstead, suffered a fatal blow to the left side of his neck late Saturday at a gas station a block away from his home, said Nassau police spokesman Det.

Shawn Gallivan, 22, is accused of striking David King , 53, sometime before 3:18 a.m. Saturday and leaving him lying in the street at Long Beach Boulevard and East Broadway, Long Beach City police said.

The Nassau County Legislaturea s 2nd District race features a Town of North Hempstead councilman, a retired Nassau County police detective and a community activist.

A jury of six men and six women will begin hearing arguments in the murder trial of Anthony Oddone, the man accused of choking an off-duty corrections officer to death during a bar fight in Southampton in summer 2008, at 10 a.m. on Monday morning in County Court in Riverhead.

A Long Island jury has convicted a man of breaking into senior housing and entering the bedroom of an ailing 80-year-old woman in the middle of the night.

The first two generations had Alzheimer's. Now Janice Mann, the third generation, fears she and her daughter could be struck by the disease as well.

From breaking news updates on 1010 WINS, to traffic reports on Z100, to sports recaps on WCBS 880, to political debates on national television, the alumni of Hofstra University's radio station can be heard across the metropolitan area and around the country.

Charles Luisi, 37, of 3020 Lowell Ave., committed the armed robberies between February and May 2008, police said.