Great Neck News

An unknown person was struck by a train at the Forest Hills LIRR station on Tuesday afternoon, according to police.

The caissons kept rolling all through the 2012 Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day Parade on Monday.

Bellmore Jewelry and electronics were taken from a home on Bedell Street on May 15.

Monday, May 28 is Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer and opening day at public beaches, pool clubs, and beach clubs.

It looks to be a hotly contested election in the Village of Kings Point. On June 19, voters will choose between two slates, one with the incumbent mayor and two incumbent trustees, and the other slate with three newcomers.

The Rev. Patrick O'Connor is set to mark the 350th anniversary of the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica with community service and multiple events.

"SAFS is a newly described sub-phenotype of asthma, and its prevalence and clinical characteristics in children are unknown," said Alfin Vicencio, MD, chief of pediatric pulmonology and cystic fibrosis at the Cohen Children's Medical Center in Great Neck, NY, and David Goldman, associate professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the Children's ... (more)

She has worked there for 20 years and has used just four sick days. She works all holidays and even double shifts when called upon.

Judge Judith Scheindlin of the "Judge Judy" television series, waves to graduates as she is introduced before receiving her honorary degree and giving a speech, during the UAlbany Undergraduate Commencement ceremony on Sunday May 20, 2012 in Albany, NY.

The Republican nominating committee nominated Mark Schimel at a convention last Thursday evening, May 10.

In NASSAU CNTY accident. shoulder blocked on WANTAGH PKWY SB approaching THE SOUTHERN PKWY/W4. Stop and go traffic from HEMPSTEAD TPK/NY RT-24/W3 In NASSAU CNTY accident.

A "faja" is a kind of girdle that originated in Colombia, one of the world's top destinations for plastic surgery, where people wear it after getting liposuction to minimize swelling and help prevent their skin from getting loose and flappy during the healing process.

The Long Island man who was challenging his estranged wife for her seat in New York's state Assembly has pulled out of the running .

Reinaldo Nunez, president of the North Bellmore Civic Association, announced at a civic meeting on Monday that North Shore Farms , an organic "Trader Joe's like" supermarket may fill the vacant Rite Aid at the southwest corner of Jerusalem Avenue and Pea Pond Road.

For months in Great Neck, the leafy Nassau County, N.Y., suburb rocked last year by the revelation of cheating on SAT exams in its high schools masterminded by Samuel Eshaghoff, whose mother was library president, there had been rumors of marital troubles between Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel and her husband Mark.

Everyone likes saving money, whether it be a few dollars or 1.4 million of them.

This coming Tuesday, May 15, is the day to cast your vote for our school budget a the day to cast your vote for our children and for our future.

Kalnick reviewed a matter of concern, the plume of MTBE which has entered the upper glacial aquifer, the level not pumped for drinking water.

A U.S. Army unit that has just returned from Iraq will be the grand marshals of this year's Douglaston Little Neck Memorial Day Parade , the march's chairman said.

WEDNESDAY May 9, 2012 -- The way someone responds to the first anti-seizure medication given after a diagnosis of epilepsy often predicts how well- controlled their seizures will be over time.