Island Park News

Due to heavy rainfall, the Nassau County Department of Health has closed the following 19 beaches as a precautionary measure, effective today, July 8, 2009.

Having just eaten somewhere else, I happened upon Cuzco, a small and neat little Peruvian place on traffic-heavy Austin Boulevard in Island Park.

Heavy rains today prompted the Nassau County Health Department to close three North Shore beaches as a precaution, officials said.

It was a verbal altercation that led to a shooting that left Cesar Ticlayauri dead and another man critically wounded.

The Nassau County Department of Health closed 22 beaches as a precautionary measure because of heavy rain, officials announced Friday.

May 27, 2009 11:58 am US/Eastern John Galtieri, 61, a retired NYPD officer, pleaded not guilty to murdering his ex-wife, Jeanne Kane.

New York Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation will take part in Great Strides, the largest CF fundraiser in the country.

A former western New York teacher has been sentenced to five years of probation for lying to the state about a past conviction involving a child's death.

Police are looking for a group of men whom they say beat and robbed a 21-year-old victim in Island Park in an early morning assault.

Georgia Kyroglou of Pete's Pitaria is sharing her recipe for Tiropita, which are mini-cheese pies: 1 pound feta cheese 16 ounces ricotta cheese 2 eggs, well beaten Butter 1 package #7 filo dough In a large ...

The impending inauguration of the country's first African-American president lent a triumphant and emotional resonance to the celebration Monday of The Rev.

A budget official on the job for less than a month faces termination by the Town of North Hempstead after being charged with having sex with a 16-year-old girl he may have thought was 18 based on electronic ...

Nassau police arrested a 16-year-old Long Beach resident for robbery and drug possession after he allegedly stole $2 in an Island Park hold-up. William Cavanagh, of Shore Road, robbed the victim at knife point ...

A man suspected of robbing a gas station Dec. 8 was caught as he tried to escape into the Ohio State Highway Patrol training center.

Police say they've arrested a man who sneaked into a Long Island girl's bedroom and ran away when she woke up but left his ID behind.

A 14-year-old girl woke to find a man standing inside her Island Park bedroom early Sunday morning.