Melville News

Born in what is now known as Tajikistan, David Mavashev taught math in Israel before becoming a programmer and being hired by an American bank.

A 23-year-old Mineola man who works as a daycare monitor confessed to investigators that he has been trading and viewing child pornography of children as young as infants for eight years, federal officials said Friday.

A day-care monitor for an after-school program at Sunquam Elementary School in Melville was arrested early Friday on a child pornography charge, federal officials said.

MELVILLE Police say the driver of a car that went out of control around daybreak Wednesday morning, died in the4 crash.

Nikon's PMA 2010 line-up has gone public, and we're beginning to wonder whether we missed some memo about super-zoom cameras.

Nikon just fired off its first pre-PMA camera announcement with the new Coolpix P100 superzoom, which packs a five-way stabilized 26x optical zoom lens in front of a 10.3 megapixel CMOS sensor with ISO 3200 sensitivity, Backside Illumination and Active D-Lighting. Yeah, it's not quite the 30x zoom from the new Olympus SP-800UX , but the lens can ...

E.W. Howell , a major Long Island construction firm, is relocating its offices from Woodbury to Plainview.

A Rhode Island meat company recalled 1.24 million pounds of pepper-coated salami Saturday after officials conducting a monthslong, multistate investigation of a salmonella outbreak compared shopping receipts of those who got sick.

Share + Jan 22, 2010 6:10 pm US/Eastern Reporting Lou Young MELVILLE, N.Y. Brother Gary Gregano knows a mortal danger when he sees one.

Newsday union meets with management to explain 473-10 vote against proposed contract January 26, 2010, Melville, NY - Local 406 executive board members met with Newsday management today to discuss the results of the Sunday's contract vote in which union members rejected a proposed contract 473 to 10 with 90 percent of the eligible members voting.

AP The charred wreckage of a gasoline hauling tractor-trailer burns out of control on the Long Island Expressway Sun Jan 24, 7:36 am ET MELVILLE, N.Y. Police say all lanes of have reopened a day after a fuel truck flipped and exploded on the highway, killing the driver.

Yamiche Alcindor, Alfonso A. Castillo, Mark Harrington, Keith Herbert and Andrew Strickler.

A Daniele spokesman says the Rhode Island-based company is recalling more than a million pounds of pepper-coated salami in case there's more evidence that points to its product as the cause of a salmonella outbreak.

AP Photo MELVILLE, N.Y. Authorities say a fuel truck flipped and exploded on New York's Long Island Expressway, killing the driver and creating a fireball seen for miles.

The Long Island Expressway is closed in both directions near Plainview and Melville as emergency crews battle a raging fire in an overturned tanker truck.

People line up Thursday to attend the Long Island National Career Fairs event in Melville, N.Y. Jobs remain scarce amid signs of an economic recovery.

People stand in lines waiting to talk with prospective employers during the Long Island National Career Fairs job fair, at the Mariott Hotel in Melville, N.Y., Thursday, Jan.

Alex Cohen, a senior at Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, was confident as he made the rounds at an internship fair sponsored by Long Island Works Coalition in Melville last week.

61 of the 300 semi-finalists named yesterday by the Intel Science Talent Search are from Long Island, led by Ward Melville in Setauket, with seven.

John Valenti Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Jan. 14--A quick-thinking police officer grabbed a ladder and rescued a woman trapped in a second-floor bedroom of a burning house Thursday morning in Brentwood, police said.