Hempstead News

If you stood in the right place and squinted Monday, it looked like U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi and Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray were at the circus.

This past month, our community has seen huge amounts of rainfall. For the first time in many, many years, our residents have been able to safely travel on Hempstead Avenue without the need to dodge deep ponds of water.

The U.S. military says Army Sgt. Juan Carlos Baldeosingh was killed with four other soldiers in Baghdad when an IED hit their Humvee.

An upstate New York teenager is among the nearly two dozen people awarded Carnegie medals for heroism.

The Town of Hempstead must allow the developer of a former Army Reserve base in Bellmore to proceed with its plan to build 79 single-family homes on the site, the New York State Court of Appeals has ruled.

NEW SQUARE - The village is considering a plan to allow a business to build a large slaughterhouse to process poultry on Route 45 bordering New Hempstead.

Right, stop. Left, stop. Hempstead High School's Class of 2009 is taking its first shot at practicing a grand entrance to graduation.

Jun 25, 2009 1:34 pm US/Eastern HEMPSTEAD 1 of 1 Bail has been set at half a million dollars for a Long Island mother accused of leaving her newborn in a shoebox in the lobby of an apartment building.

A Hempstead mother who abandoned her newborn daughter in a shoebox has six other children, ages 8 and younger, and admitted to being addicted to cocaine during her latest pregnancy, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Jun 25, 2009 8:18 am US/Eastern HEMPSTEAD 1 of 1 Nassau County police are searching for the mother who abandoned her baby in Hempstead.

Four Hempstead men were arrested in connection with a string of burglaries and attempted break-ins at four homes, Nassau police said Tuesday.

Police say a newborn was placed in a shoebox and abandoned in the lobby of a Long Island apartment building.

Catholics across Long Island Sunday mostly sided with Bishop William Murphy in his battle with Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi over same-sex marriage.

Lydia Feldman, who graduated from Hempstead High School in May, was named one of 10 Iowa seniors to receive the 2009 Outstanding Science Student Award from the Iowa Academy of Science.

Two brothers were arrested in connection with the shooting of a teenager in Uniondale Friday, police said.

Three men approached a driver who had slowed in traffic early Wednesday morning in Hempstead, pulled him from his car at gunpoint, punched him, kicked him, robbed him and carjacked him -- only to be arrested a short time later, according to police.

Tennis anyone? From July 1 through September 6 , experience the 2009 Hempstead Lake Annual Open Tennis Tournament .

The young man in the picture stood alone outside the Theodore Roosevelt Building in Mineola Thursday evening, waving a placard at passing motorists to show his support for the Lighthouse project in Uniondale, where he lives.

Juan Alvizures who was arrested and charged with Endangering the Welfare of a Child 2nd Degree.

Darlene Sperico may have to move her backyard party and guests into her home this weekend - not because of the rain, but because of the stench.