East Rockaway News

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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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 ...

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...