Melville News

ROCCO PARASCANDOLA Newsday, Melville, N.Y. The NYPD has found an unintended use for the T-Mobile Sidekick and other hand-held devices -- a razor blade can be secreted in their battery compartments, police sources say.

The architect Dinesh Doshi at home in Melville, New York. Michael Falco Is Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi primarily a work of art or a work of architecture? How about one of the practical but forgettable towers on Airport Road? Where does one discipline end and the other begin? The New York-based painter, designer and architect Dinesh Doshi ...

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Jul. 3--Michael Jackson's children could become the center of a custodial tug-of-war between the singer's mother, Katherine Jackson, and his former wife, Debbie Rowe.

James Bernstein Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Jul. 5--A lifesaving rescue device invented by a trio of veteran firefighters from Long Island has been accepted by officials at the Statue of Liberty and is to be available for emergencies now that Lady Liberty's crown is open.

Just before the recession began battering their finances in 2007, a Huntington couple decided to divorce, planning to split the proceeds of their house, appraised at $1.5 million just a year earlier.

MELVILLE Police say a woman with a handgun got away with an undisclosed among of money following an early morning robbery at the Madison National Bank b ranch at 859 Walt Whitman Road in Melville.

Joseph Mallia Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Jul. 2--A man on a rampage at his girlfriend's Roslyn Heights home broke a police officer's arm and attacked several other officers as they tried to stop him from assaulting the woman Wednesday night, police said.

The Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee for Melville, N.Y.-based Northwood Properties LLC is accepting bids for the remaining building rights to the developer's senior housing development in Sudbury.

Government officials turn over some dirt at the site Monday. To enlarge, click here .

State Assembly members are sending $85 million in special spending projects to more than 4,000 programs, agencies and charities in their home districts. Seventy of the grants, referred to by some as pork-barrel spending and by others as Community Project Funds, are in the town of Huntington. Here are the recipients in Melville:

Leviton has relocated its global corporate headquarters to Long Island's Suffolk County, as of June 15.

MELVILLE, N.Y. & HONG KONG -- -- Verint Systems Inc. today announced ongoing leadership in the financial services sector of the Chinese market.

A Bloods street gang member was sentenced Tuesday to 35 years to life in prison for the 2007 murder of a Huntington Station man during a robbery.

Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Middle Jun. 22--More than two months after he helped a young mother rescue her infant out of a burning house despite his own severe injuries, Jesus Cabrera will be released soon from Stony Brook University Medical Center.

MELVILLE, N.Y. - In the end, the incredible claim by a Michigan man that he might be the toddler who disappeared 54 years ago from outside an East Meadow, N.Y., store was just that - incredible.

Compiled by Virginia Dunleavy and Danielle DeBouver Cold Spring Harbor A laptop, guitar and assorted electronics were stolen from an unlocked 1986 Jaguar on Turkey Lane on June 10.

A Norfolk real estate honcho plans to spend five figures to rent a Gulfstream jet, with the services of a flight attendant, to get to the U.S. Open golf tournament in New York this week.

Steven Marchessault, a junior at Half Hollow Hills High School East, carefully cut the American flag into small pieces using scissors.

Unknown Source: Newsday Wordcount: Jun. 11--A provision being considered as part of sweeping federal health care reform targets a portion of the population one expert said Wednesday is sorely in need of insurance -- young adults.

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