Melville News

Winterfest, the month-long celebration sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, kicks off in Northport on Nov.

After you've had the main Thanksgiving meal, here are recipes for making use of your leftovers.

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee deploys speech analytics solution from Nexidia to identify service issues and potential bottlenecks within its call centers.

The governor, speaking at an event in Great Neck, said failure to make these budget cuts would be "penny-wise and pound-foolish." Photo credit: Maria Lopez/newsday/Maria Lopez Gov.

Ruoyi Jiang, 17, of East Setauket, will compete next month for scholarships ranging from $10,000 to the top prize of $100,000 in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology.

The federal judge handling former Nassau Legis. Roger Corbin's tax evasion case has moved the trial date from Nov.

The Central Islip man wounded by an off-duty New York City cop after a bar fight was attacked by the officer and others and then shot as the fight ended, the man's attorney said.

David A. Paterson said Friday at a planning and design meeting. "Smart growth is the idea of addressing the progress of the future rather than the comfort of the present," he told hundreds of representatives of the building and design and planning industries Friday.

Jeffrey A. Galant has joined the tax, trusts and estates departments at the Mineola-based law firm Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone.

Long Island Association economist Pearl Kamer says "technically the recession has ended," but cautions that recovery will be slow.

About 20 people picketed Newsday's office, expressing anger over a syndicated cartoon in Sunday's paper.

At the meeting, Richard DePetris, the attorney for Southampton Village, presented an environmental assessment study of the project done by Charles Voorhis of the environmental planning firm Nelson, Pope & Voorhis in Melville.

Recent developments, however, continue to provide reminders that credit performance in a weak economy cannot be taken for granted.

But the owner of Williston Townhouse Diner came up empty. "We were only in business three years, and if your credit score is not perfect, the banks don't want to give you money," Dimas said.

Even though Lawrence A. Kushnick already provides health insurance to his six employees, the Melville attorney bristles at the idea that the government may require him someday to do so.

Long Island , the state's former education commissioner, Richard Mills, would typically stop off at a struggling school district with a mostly black and Hispanic enrollment to publicly promote his campaign for higher test scores and lower dropout rates.

Robotic toy hamsters, the latest Barbie dolls and stylish boots are disappearing from store shelves as holiday shoppers start to get serious.

Matthew Chayes Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Nov. 8--Nassau County cops Saturday burst into a Roosevelt house in flames and rescued an unconscious woman lying on the kitchen floor, police said.

MELVILLE, N.Y. a ' The sister-in-law of Diane Schuler, the alleged drunken driver who died along with seven others in a fiery wrong-way crash on New York's Taconic State Parkway, told investigators Schuler was a heavy marijuana user and drinker, the attorney for the family of two of those killed said Saturday.

Officers responded to a complaint of a fight on Pierrepont Avenue at 2:08 a.m. on Saturday, 10/31/09. Police observed several subjects fighting.