Freeport News

Want something different? Try spending the last night of 2009 "Under the Stars" at Custer Observatory in Southold.

Written by Long Island Press on Dec 19th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

Share + Dec 17, 2009 5:12 pm US/Eastern Reporting John Slattery 1 of 1 Esther Reyes, 33, is accused of repeatedly locking in her car a developmentally-disabled man she was hired to provide car for.

Written by Long Island Press on Dec 17th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

Students at Freeport and Roosevelt High Schools will get expanded choices of free college courses next fall, along with extra tutoring aimed at helping them pass, under a foundation-funded initiative announced Thursday afternoon by the State Education Department.

Written by Patrick Kelton on Dec 13th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

Nassau homicide detectives have identified a man whose body was found Friday night in a burning vehicle behind a Freeport synagogue.

Police are investigating a pair of robberies in Uniondale and Freeport that they say could be related.

Written by Timothy Bolger on Dec 12th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

Police on Long Island say they're investigating the discovery of a body in a vehicle that was on fire behind a synagogue.

These responders, armed with some 40 pieces of equipment, all helped rescue Mario Flores, left.

The Velvet Underground is bigger than ever. The band defined New York subculture when West Coast hippie rock dominated the late 1960s.

The search is on for three men who, armed with a silver handgun, robbed a Sunoco gas station on Atlantic Avenue in Freeport Sunday evening.

In an emotional ceremony Saturday, Edward Toppin of Freeport was laid to rest - for the third time.

Written by Patrick Kelton on Dec 4th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

Written by Patrick Kelton on Dec 4th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

A man leaving a hotel in West Hempstead was robbed by another man, who took his money and cell phone back to his hotel room in front of his victim, where arrested later.

Increasingly going through the e-mail inbox is taking more time out of the work day.

Classical composer Hale Smith, known for his work with jazz stars like Dizzy Gillespie , died in Freeport, N.Y., at the age of 84, his wife Juanita said.

Hempstead contractor who was trying to protect his buddy in a street fight was sentenced Tuesday to 18 years to life in prison for his crime.