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A Valley Stream Wal-Mart employee died after he was trampled in a Black Friday shopping frenzy, officials said.

The multi-year struggle to decide on the best approach to do the required upgrades for sewage treatment for much of the peninsula will culminate in a vote by the Town of North Hempstead Council on Nov.

Vernon Downs Casino and the Harness Horse Association of Central New York are teaming up to help out families in need during the Holiday season through the Food Bank of Central New York.

To launch the event, Tinkelman met last spring with schools Superintendent Les Omotani, who gave Tinkelman approval to move ahead with his idea: a music and art festival.

Meryl J. Berkowitz , candidate for county court judge MERYL. J. BERKOWITZ DEMOCRATIC BACKGROUND: Berkowitz, 54, of Lawrence , also is running on the Conservative, Independence and Working Families lines.

More than 80 firefighters are battling a four-alarm blaze this hour at a house near the intersection of Bayview and Lawrence Avenues.

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Nassau County Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey held a press conference at police headquarters in Mineola on Friday, October 9 to describe a sexual assault that occurred in New Hyde Park at the a oeStop and Shopa at 653 Hillside Avenue, on Oct.

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County, accusing the county of approving the Bay Park sewer consolidation plan without a detailed environmental impact statement.

The Health of local waterways is the subject of a lawsuit filed against Nassau County by the Town of Hempstead.

On Monday, Nassau County Court Judge Jerald Carter threw out the eight-hour videotape, which included Lacey's confession to the Feb.

Exterior view of Lawrence Middle School, 195 Broadway, Lawrence, NY. Identified as "Lakewood" From the report: Researchers describe this elementary district as the most racially and ethnically diverse they have studied, and also as successful in maintaining high test scores among all groups.

The confession of a young man who admitted to purposely setting a fire that left four of his neighbors dead is inaudible, and is going to be thrown out of court if the case goes to a jury trial, a Long Island judge ruled today.

Incumbent Democrat Jeffery Toback has been a reliable supporter of the policies of Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, including Suozzi's cost-cutting plans to close the village sewage treatment plants in Cedarhurst and Lawrence and pump the effluent to the county treatment plant at Bay Park .

Caleb Lacey arrives at the Nassau County Courthouse for his arraignment. Three days after a fatal Lawrence fire, two pairs of detectives separately grilled probationary firefighter Caleb Lacey at the Lawrence- Cedarhurst fire station - with at least one detective calling him a liar - but the Lawrence man did not admit setting the Feb.

Friends, Not Allies : THE HAWK AND THE DOVE: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War By Nicholas Thompson The end of the cold war brought relief, even joy, for most Americans.

In what is being billed at the latest effort to combat the heroin epidemic , Nassau County is holding an Anonymous Drug Disposal Program on Sept.

The state will pay half the cost of constructing a controversial $3 million kosher poultry slaughterhouse in New Square that has invited the ire of neighbors and the disapproval of Rockland County.