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Three people - two women and a man - were arrested Monday night in a bias assault in Mastic Beach in which the suspects "made numerous anti-gay remarks about the victim's sexual orientation," police said Tuesday.

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In the wake of the killing of Marcelo Lucero , Kaleigh Nolan wanted to do something.

An Ecuadorian family is the latest victim of an alleged bias crime on Long Island after they found racist epithets scrawled on pieces of trash that had been dumped on their manicured lawn in the middle of the night.

Some parents at a Medford school are still demanding that it be closed because of possible asbestos contamination, despite assurances to the contrary at a meeting with school officials last night.

A second school in the Patchogue-Medford system has sealed off a classroom as a precaution against asbestos contamination, district officials said Friday morning.

Andew Dunton 'sA one-story house in Suffolk County couldn't be further from the Harlem streets he patrols as a plainclothes cop.

Patchogue-Medford's school board late Wednesday authorized the investigation and possible prosecution of a sometimes-district resident who has acknowledged taking samples of insulation believed to contain asbestos from heating pipes in the district's Eagle Elementary School.

Lindsay Lohan attends the 'Stand Up For A Cure' benefit at Madison Square Garden.

CENTRAL ISLIP Suffolk County Police Tuesday identified a man who was shot to death on Tuesday morning as a Medford man, Dexter Acheampong, 24.

BY JOHN HILDEBRAND john.hildebrand@newsday.com Patchogue-Medford officials Tuesday tried to reassure parents that the district's Eagle Elementary School was safe for students, but acknowledged that attendance had fallen sharply due to fears of alleged asbestos contamination.

A Suffolk County jury has convicted Frederick Hollman, 22, of second-degree murder in the June 2008 stabbing death of Thomas Garafolo.

March 21, 2009, Patchogue , L.I. Kristen, 26, a children's librarian, and elementary school teacher Scott, 32, met at the Patchogue-Medford Library in November 2003.

Two New York residents were arrested this week after they allegedly tried to sell heroin worth $5,000 to an undercover detective, authorities said.

A fire in a second-floor boys bathroom forced the evacuation of nearly 3,000 students and faculty at Patchogue-Medford High School Thursday, school and fire officials said.

Children boarding a school bus in south Medford escaped injury Wednesday after a landscaping truck hit a car, sparking a chain-reaction crash that ended with a Jeep striking the bus, police said None of the more than a dozen children from the Patchogue-Medford School District who were on or boarding the bus were injured.

Opinionline Archives Fight pirates by adding security force to each freighter Michael James Zema - Medford, N.Y. The problem of piracy off the Somali coast and its solution are clear.

For the family of a little girl murdered by her aunt a quarter century ago, the question is as unanswerable now as it was on the day Kathleen Mary Conway bound and suffocated 5-year-old Sherie Johnston.

Steaks on the menu at J&R's Steakhouse. It's a weekend night at J&R's Steak House in Stony Brook, and it's kind of hard to hear - or think - over the din.