Oceanside News

Four fishermen are very lucky that two off-duty Nassau County Marine Bureau cops were also on the water when the fishermen's boat began sinking in shark-infested waters south of Fire Island.

Before being severely beaten by a group of young people in what police said was a gang assault outside his home during a July Fourth party, a Valley Stream man had asked the youths to leave his block, a suspect told police, courts papers said.

Sometime in September, this astounding brain-like 5-pound pearl, found off the waters of the Philippines, will be auctioned.

Long Islanders are bugging out due to a surge in mosquitoes caused by the recent downpours.

Former interns Claire Timko, right, and Anthony Martini created a touch screen real-time Web site for the Nassau County Police Department.

Darlene Sperico may have to move her backyard party and guests into her home this weekend - not because of the rain, but because of the stench.

A standoff between New York State police troopers and an Oceanside man in a car forced the closure of the Meadowbrook State Parkway in both directions for several hours on Tuesday until police discovered the man had apparently committed suicide, police said.

Nassau police arrested two Oceanside men on drug and weapon possession charges yesterday after finding the body of a dead man in their home.

One extra letter. That's what did in Long Island speller Zachary Zagorski Thursday in the semifinals at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington.

South Nassau Communities Hospital has implemented New York City-based Meta 's Electronic Physician Query software.

Three partygoers in Baldwin face assault charges after one struck a teenager with a bottle and then was joined by two others to beat up the teen's brother, an off-duty Nassau police officer who had arrived later at the party, police said Saturday.

Evan Potts, 22, is led away from the courthouse in Long Beach. Potts was charged with second-degree manslaughter after an alleged road-rage incident in Long Beach Friday.

A Long Island man due to close on a new home yesterday instead wound up dead in the street in a horrific road-rage incident that began when he was cut off by another driver, police said Just before he was killed, the 34-year-old victim, whose name was being withheld, furiously pounded on the other driver's car, witnesses said.

A Long Island man has pleaded guilty to illegal wiretapping in a corporate espionage case that targeted two Bergen County companies.

Not every dermatologist will see symptoms of bioterror attacks or be called upon to help police solve murders.

Hauppauge/Uniondale Long Island health officials continue looking across the border to Queens as the center of interest for tracking suspected cases of swine flu on Long Island.

One of Long Island 's two additional probable swine flu cases involves a 50-year-old Holbrook man who works at the Queens school that has been ground zero of the flu outbreak in New York State, health officials said Thursday.

Oceanside, NY - " Cataract surgery is one of the safest and most effective surgeries performed in the United States.

Yesterday I wrote about some great pork dishes on Long Island in an effort to hammer home the point that eating pork presents no danger vis a vis swine flu: you catch it from sneezing people, not from barbecued ribs.

School Stuff Submitted by John Morgan on 2009-04-22.   Eleven Quinnipiac University students were recently inducted into Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Honor Society for Spanish, at a ceremony at Quinnipiac.