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Gunshot vistim Wilson Batista Jr. comes home from hospital after five months. where view large map Five months and four different hospital stays after he was shot in the face while playing basketball in a Brentwood park, Wilson Batista Jr.

Dr. Frank Pollaro of Babylon has been suspended from South Nassau Communities Hospital after police said he admitted to downloading images of child pornography.

Suffolk County Police say the shooting happened during an altercation between a group of men leaving Napper Tandy's Pub in Miller Place just after 1 a.m. Thursday.

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Franklin Xavier Gallimore, 20, was shot twice while standing in his driveway with a friend, according to the report.

Christopher D. Bodkin was a candidate for town council in Islip. A dead fish wrapped in a political campaign sign was left on the doorstep of Islip Town Councilman Christopher Bodkin less than a week after he was defeated in a re-election bid, according to the councilman and Suffolk police.

On Monday evening, the group of four walked north on Concourse East alongside the moored boats in the Brightwaters canal, staying on the lit portion of the street, aware of the gathering dusk, Benjamin said.

Janine DiNatale, who for 21 years lived in a home on the largest of three toxic plumes migrating from a former Long Island Lighting Co.

Deadline: April 15, 2010 Islip Art Museum The Carriage House East Islip, NY Exhibition Proposals & Residencies In 1993, the Islip Art Museum opened the Carriage House as a project space where contemporary artists can create and exhibit new and experimental work.

The National Weather Service issued a coastal flood advisory, which warns of "long-period ocean swells" and widespread minor to possibly localized moderate coastal floods.

Despite a proposed 11.2-percent tax increase in East Hampton Town's proposed $72.1 million budget for 2010, most who spoke up at a budget hearing before the Town Board on Thursday, November 5, were more upset that funding for a wide range of community organizations has been eliminated.

The entity Renew New York received, since August 2008, at least $52,000 combined from: D'Amato; wife, Katuria D'Amato; brother Armand D'Amato; and son Christopher D'Amato. The committee also received tens of thousands of dollars from real estate bigs David Mack, Douglas Durst , Donald Zucker and others.

A Selden woman is facing animal cruelty charges after being accused of killing more than 20 dogs and burying them in her backyard, Suffolk County SPCA officials said Monday.

Authorities in New York say a woman who had about 20 dead dogs buried in her backyard on Long Island faces a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge.

The firm, Morelli Ratner, cited "irreconcilable conflict" when applying to drop Patricia Dillon as a client.

To read the full story on the late Spirit, pick up the Thursday, November 5, edition of The Southampton Press-Eastern Edition, on newsstands Wednesday evening.

Nicholas Hausch appears in court in Riverhead earlier this year. Thursday, he pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the hate killing of Marcelo Lucero .

The former News 12 and "Inside Edition" anchor placed first in a field of four Islip Town Board candidates, outshining her Republican partner, Councilman Steven Flotteron, who nabbed the other seat, and pushing out longtime incumbent Christopher Bodkin, a Democrat whom both sides had expected to win.

Bayman Frank Sloup, of Bay Shore, stands with some of his crab traps. A federal jury has awarded $2.1 million in damages to "one of the last of the Suffolk baymen" who sued the Town of Islip and two of its former officials, claiming that they vindictively drove him out of business.

Kathleen Prisco has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of her husband, Ralph Prisco in Fort Salonga.