Hempstead News

Agency has approved paying a judgment of more than $800,000 to its former boss so the agency can transfer ownership of three below-market-rate houses to local residents.

On last Saturday, Nov. 14, Homicide Squad Detectives from the Nassau County police department reported the arrest of Wilmer Linares of Albertson, on Friday, Nov.

I'm waiting for my chicken to be slaughtered at Hempstead Poultry Farms in Hempstead Village.

Spiritis' contract said he was to be paid for "all prior unused vacation, sick, personal, birthday days and accrued compensatory time based upon his prior salary" as commissioner, or $915.48 a day.

Reforms are being made after a Long Island town acknowledged three cemetery errors in less than a year that left coffins in the wrong grave sites.

Also Wednesday, the town admitted that the recent mixup was the third time in less than a year that cemetery workers mistakenly buried caskets carrying remains in the wrong grave site.

Before a fire broke out, nine Hofstra University students lived in this Uniondale house's basement off-campus. where A fire in a Uniondale house occupied by several Hofstra University students prompted the Town of Hempstead to issue three summonses to the landlord for violations involving illegal use of a single-family house.

Officers took James Peterson, 36, into custody Thursday at a federal correctional facility in Hopewell, Va., where he is currently serving a 9-year sentence for a prior conviction, Nassau County police said.

Juan C. Martinez-Torres, 24, of Tennessee Avenue, fired the shots as Alexander Ponce, 46, of Jackson Avenue, drove the Acura RL northbound on the expressway at 12:44 a.m., Nassau police said.

Prairie View A&M University officials will hold a review of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., on November 18.

A woman visiting her son's tomb at a Long Island cemetery was dismayed to discover that the grave contained a new body.

Republican Howard Kopel defeated 10-year incumbent Jeff Toback by more than a 1,000 votes.

The incident was at the Center Street Middle School at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nassau County police said.

Lawrence Sutton, 20, was one of three assailants Nassau County police said attacked the brothers with a brick as they left Bradley Park with a 6-year-old girl just before 4 p.m. on Oct.

Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray spoke to a packed crowd of supporters at the Republican headquarters in Westbury on Election Night.

Nassau County Police say they arrested a Bellmore teen on hate crime charges who was part of a knife-wielding duo "yelling anti-gay slurs" that chased a man down the street, reports the Long Island Press .

Share + Comments Nov 9, 2009 6:22 pm US/Eastern Reporting Magee Hickey 1 of 1 Hempstead Assistant Police Chief Willie Dixon told CBS 2 he was benched because of his race, but the town said he's simply the subject of an investigation.

Your ability to make sense of Groucho's words and Harpo's pantomimes in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions of your brain, says new research funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders , one of the National Institutes of Health.

A West Hempstead man was charged with attempted murder after a confrontation with police late Saturday night that included one shot fired, although no one was injured.

Jessey Tejada, 22, of 52 Lucille Ave., Elmont , was arrested Friday and was set for arraignment the same day.