Hempstead News

Oceanside area residents will vote Thursday in a rare contested election for commissioner of a sanitation district that serves more than 13,000 households.

A Long Island Rail Road commuter train bound for Hempstead, Long Island went off the rails on Monday evening during rush hour and stranded possibly 1,000 in a tunnel that connects Manhattan and Queens, a spokesman said.

A Central Islip man was arrested Sunday and charged with stabbing another man inside a West Hempstead nightclub during a disturbance, Nassau County police said.

Newly appointed board members of the troubled Hempstead Village Housing Authority and the village mayor tried to overthrow the authority's chairman during a contentious board meeting last week.

Police announced a two-pronged attack Thursday to stop gun violence in the city.

Switching party lines was not enough to secure Leslie Gross -- a North Hempstead Democrat running with Republicans for town clerk -- the endorsement of the Nassau County Conservative Party.

Nassau County police are investigating after a man entered a Hempstead bank Thursday morning announcing a robbery and fled with cash, according to a police news release.

Jazz composer Terence Blanchard couldn't have imagined how timely his opera about a gay boxer would become when he accepted a commission three years ago.

Four people were taken to hospitals to be treated for smoke inhalation after a Hempstead Village apartment building fire Wednesday night, police said.

The Village of Garden City will defend itself against accusations of housing discrimination against minorities in a long-awaited trial on a federal lawsuit set to begin Monday.

The family of slain Hofstra University student Andrea Rebello suggests in court papers that it may sue Nassau County police for their fatal shooting of the student during a confrontation with an armed intruder.

In a rare case of enforcement of U.S. lobbying laws, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia has filed a civil suit against a small New York consulting firm for failing to file multiple lobbying disclosure reports and failing to have its lobbyists file contribution reports.

Accident. Right lane blocked on The Southern St Pkwy WB at Rt-106/X25. Stop and go traffic from Bellmore Rd/X26 in South Hempstead Accident.

A Connecticut woman was arrested Saturday night at an East Meadow hotel after police said she offered to perform a sex act on an undercover cop for money, according to a Nassau County police news release.

Closed due to flooding on Wantagh Pkwy SB between The Southern Pkwy/W4 and Sunrise Hwy/NY Rt-27/W5 in Nassau Cnty.

We've seen them cropping up all over lately, and we're none too happy about it - especially when they show up on the wrong side of the fence.

Accident cleared on The L.I.E./I-495 WB between x33/Community Dr and before x32/Little Neck Pkwy.

Hempstead Town supervisor candidate Felix Procacci requested at Tuesday night's town board meeting that the board meetings be recorded for live video streaming online and posting later on the town website.

A Hempstead lawyer cleared of conspiracy and scheming to defraud charges in a New Cassel development deal that ensnared three former government officials said he feels vindicated, but the case has hurt his career.

Three New Yorkers were arrested Thursday afternoon when police said they were found in possession of a large cache of counterfeit $100 bills.