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Thursday Jun 18 | Newsday.com

DA: Man who owns three rentals stole Medicaid benefits

Charles Danca, 51, of Harrison Avenue, Lynbrook, was arrested on charges of grand larceny, welfare fraud, and three counts of offering a false instrument for filing, Nassau prosecutors said.

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Tue Jun 16, 2009

United States Coast Guard

Coast Guard, local agencies continue search for missing man near Far Rockaway Beach

A 13-year-old girl was also recovered from the water by a Good Samaritan and transferred to Emergency Medical Service personnel.

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Mon Jun 15, 2009

7Online.com

Authorities believe it is a man who disappeared trying to rescue a woman.

A body was recovered from the waters off the Rockaways in Queens, and authorities suspect it is a missing swimmer from Saturday.

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Wed Jun 10, 2009

TheCommunityAlliance.org

More Than One Way To Eliminate A Special District

Ashes to ashes. Or was that, Village of Valley Stream to Jamaica Ash? Yes, after 25 years -- that's a quarter of a century, for anyone left in Hempstead Town who can still count -- the Village of Valley Stream had contracted with the Town of Hempstead for refuse disposal services.

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Sat May 30, 2009

Alexandria Gazette-Packet

Bill Brannigan Dies

Bill Brannigan, 73, a former journalist and press officer, who turned to acting in retirement, died on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 of acute idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at GWU Hospital in Washington, D.C. He resided in Arlington.

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Fri May 15, 2009

Newsday.com

Cops: Worker stole equipment from employer

A worker at an East Rockaway manufacturing company was arrested Thursday and charged with burglary after he stole equipment from his employer, Nassau police said.

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Mon May 04, 2009

Newsday.com

No one's eager to be E. Rockaway school board chief

Like 123 other public school districts on Long Island , East Rockaway has a board election scheduled for May 19.

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Wed Apr 15, 2009

Inside Long Island Politics

Green Bay Parkers (yep) team up to oppose plan

There was a false alarm Wednesday from the Green Bay Parkers. Love that name. The Parkers are based in Bay Park and East Rockaway and oppose Nassau Countya s sewer consolidation plan, contending that it would overwhelm the countya s sewage treatment plant in Bay Park.

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Sat Apr 11, 2009

San Francisco Examiner

Economy may contribute to rise in family violence

Nassau County Police car is parked outside an East Rockaway, N.Y., home where a man held his family hostage, Tuesday, March 17, 2009.

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Tue Mar 24, 2009

WCBSTV.com

Officer Wakes Family As House Erupts In Flames

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Sun Mar 22, 2009

Newsday.com

Nassau cop rescues E. Rockaway family from fire

A Nassau County police officer on his way home from work helped an East Rockaway family to safety early Sunday after he noticed smoke billowing from their house and alerted them to the blaze, police said The officer, whom police identified only by his last name, O'Connor, had completed his overnight shift in the Fourth Precinct in Hewlett when he ...

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KTIV-TV Sioux City

NY cop saves sleeping family from burning house

Associated Press - March 22, 2009 2:33 PM ET EAST ROCKAWAY, N.Y. - Authorities on New York's Long Island say an off-duty police officer saved a family when he noticed smoke coming from their home and woke them up.

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Asbury Park Press

NY officer wakes family as house erupts in flames

A Nassau County family is safe after an off-duty police officer saw smoke coming from their house and woke them up.

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WNBC-TV New York

SWAT Team Corrals Man Wielding Baseball Bat

After several hours, police in Nassau County finally took a man into custody after he barricaded himself and his family inside their home.

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Fri Mar 20, 2009

7Online.com

LI standoff over; suspect surrenders

A man took two women and six children hostage in an East Rockaway home -- prompting a hostage standoff that dragged on for more than six hours.

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Wed Mar 18, 2009

Newsday.com

Cops: E. Rockaway man beats wife, holds family hostage

Staff writer Bill Mason contributed to this story. March 18, 2009 An East Rockaway man punched his wife repeatedly in the face while on the front lawn of their home, before he barricaded himself and his family inside for about six hours yesterday, police said.

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Tue Mar 17, 2009

Newsday.com

Hostage situation in East Rockaway

What started as an apparent domestic dispute has evolved into a high-tension standoff in East Rockaway after a man barricaded himself in his home with his wife and children just after midnight Tuesday, Nassau ...

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NY Daily News

Local man nabbed after holding wife, kids hostage

EAST ROCKAWAY , N.Y. - Police on Long Island say a standoff with a man holding his wife and children hostage in a home in East Rockaway has ended.

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Sat Mar 07, 2009

CW11 New York WPIX-TV

Woman Charged In Fatal East Rockaway Car Crash

Nassau County police arrested a Lynbrook woman on vehicular manslaughter and drunken-driving charges after she reportedly crashed into a car early Saturday morning in East Rockaway, killing the driver.

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Mon Feb 09, 2009

Newsday.com

Suozzi weighs privatizing sewage plants, ambulances

Adding to his already combative relationship with county worker unions, County Executive Thomas Suozzi said he is considering privatizing Nassau's three sewage treatment plants and the police department's ...

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