Staten-Island News

A long stretch of a high volume Staten Island thoroughfare will undergo a resurfacing in the next few months, says Councilman James Oddo.

Exceeding expectations while conveying a powerful anti-bullying message is exactly what a group of special needs students did yesterday at the Staten Island School for Civic Leadership in Graniteville.

That's the motto of FDNY Engine Co. 159, which celebrated its centennial yesterday at the firehouse at 1592 Richmond Rd.

Spirits were soaring like the school's namesake Eagles as St. Peter's Boys' seniors gathered inside the New Brighton high school tonight to celebrate graduation.

Four cops who saved an emotionally disturbed nursing home patient last month after he dived into the waters off South Beach were recognized for their heroics today by Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and a pair of borough elected officials.

The College of Staten Island in Willowbrook hosted its first-ever Lavender graduation reception yesterday, to recognize students who comprise the school's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community.

Alie Kamara was just 17 in November 2008 when a group of white men attacked him with a metal pipe in Stapleton in "retaliation" for Barack Obama's being elected the country's first black president.

After 31 years at the helm, during which he oversaw enormous growth in services, Dr.

By MARISSA VINCIGUERRA and JOHN HOOD STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Pssst! We here at the Advance are going to let Mayor Michael Bloomberg in on a little secret about those supersized soft drinks, the ones he says pave the way to sugary perdition.

The 8th Annual Staten Island LGBT Parade & Festival Led by Grand Marshals Assemblyman Matt Titone, Senator Diane Savino, and Honorary Grand Marshal Damiana Russ When: June 2, from noon to 5 p.m. Where: The parade steps off at noon from Central Avenue between Slosson Terrace and Hyatt Street in St.

Valedictorian and first-generation Mexican American Irvin Ibarguen thanked this country's immigrant communities -- and his own family -- for making the sacrifices that allowed him to stand before his peers at the College of Staten Island commencement today at the top of his class.

A fight over what was on daytime TV in an Oakwood diner ended with one man taking a bite out of a fellow patron's ear yesterday afternoon, authorities allege.

A Port Richmond felon was sentenced to 18 years in prison today for shooting and wounding a toddler in a stroller eight months ago outside a Mariners Harbor apartment complex.

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The practice of injecting liquid silicone into clients looking to beef up their buttocks and smooth out dents and wrinkles has come back to bite a Willowbrook woman.

Pedestrians make their way across Hylan Boulevard at New Dorp Lane amid drivers making turns in New Dorp.

Borough President James Molinaro, a Conservative, is a longtime Michael Cusick supporter.

Elizabeth Van Manen smoothed the creases from her daughter's gown, fastened her cap with bobby pins and arranged her tassel.

One young Staten Islander will catch a glimpse of what it's like to be a seaman.

A Sunnyside man, accused of sexually abusing three young boys he knew, was nabbed almost two years ago while trying to flee to his native Colombia.