North Babylon News

High winds knocked out power to more than 17,000 Long Island homes and businesses Tuesday, and caused at least one frustrating blaze for firefighters in North Babylon when a downed high power line ignited a parked pickup truck.

As the father of a 3-year-old contemplating his daughter's future educational opportunities, a recent encounter with some parents who home-school their kids has gotten me thinking about the difficulties of educating a child in a country of such profoundly disquieting intellectual shortcomings.

This week's snow and cold may be to blame for the death of an elderly woman. The body of Lillian Tree, 91, was fouind yesterday by a relative at the bottom of an icy flight of steps leading out of her home on Rhoda Avenue in North Babylon.

West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart says safety Nate Sowers and defensive lineman Scooter Berry will not play in the Gator Bowl.

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Residents of North Babylon and Deer Park have launched a petition campaign asking Suffolk County to stop allowing developers and businesses to hook up to the Southwest Sewer District before residents have the chance to do so.

As word spread Wednesday that the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan subpoenaed documents from the state Working Families Party, Charles Pohanka of North Babylon said, "You know something? I'm very happy." Pohanka, 52, was ousted as the party's Suffolk chairman after a long, bitter battle.

A 77-year-old woman who wasn't breathing and whose heart had stopped was saved by a quick-thinking Suffolk County police officer armed with a defibrillator Sunday.

A bill to provide more light on the Long Island Power Authority was introduced last week by Suffolk County Legislator Edward Romaine.

For low-income and minority students struggling to carve out new lives for themselves at SUNY New Paltz, it's not all about the money.

The measure passed unanimously Tuesday. But some legislators questioned how the law would work since offenders may not know where their victims live.

Redeemer is a conservative Evangelical Christian congregation, but the parishioners don't fit the easy Bible Belt stereotypes.

An attempt to deep fry a turkey sparked a North Babylon house fire that damaged the home's exterior and a rear deck Thursday, a fire official said.

Bayshore, New York - November 26, 2009: Rev. Diane Dunne along with voluteers unload food that will be handed out to needy at the Love and Mercy Ministry in Bayshore , New York on November 26, 2009.

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Ancient Greeks knew how to calculate the recurring patterns of lunar eclipses thanks to observations made for centuries by the Babylonians.

Zenaida Morales of Hempstead brought her 7-month-old daughter, Jimena Gaudaloupe Chavez, to receive the H1N1 flu vaccine at Nassau University Medical Center .

Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13. What better way to celebrate Friday the 13th's superstitions than to discuss the phobia that centers on it? Besides a movie franchise, Friday the 13th is a day of fright for those who have triskaidekaphobia.

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That's what incredulous people ask Robin Hummel when she's gearing up for an all-day "crop" session at the Scrapper's Playground and Park in North Babylon .