Valley Stream News

Singer Justin Bieber is too big for Roosevelt Field Mall. The teen idol's planned performance at the Long Island mall was canceled at the last minute Friday afternoon after a crowd got a little out of hand, police say.

Judge Gary Knobel of First District Court dismissed the charges Thursday after defense attorney Joseph Girardi of North Valley Stream produced a 2001 memo from the county attorney's office that said it was legal to remove signs from county property because they should not have been put there in the first place.

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced Wednesday that a Hicksville man has been sentenced to 22 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to stabbing a local gas station attendant to death and stealing cash and phone cards.

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Bill Ray with his Rickenbacker bass guitar, which is similar to the one Paul McCartney used during his solo career.

It turned out Heather Dajani, 18, of Beverly Parkway in North Valley Stream, was not assaulted by an ex-boyfriend, police said.

Four men have been arrested in connection with several Valley Stream home burglaries and a Massapequa car theft.

Hewlett firefighters respond to a house fire on Sutton Lane Thursday morning. A retired doctor neighbors said was forced to work in a Soviet coal mine before coming to America in the 1960s died in a fire in his Hewlett home early Thursday that fire officials said was likely caused by smoking in bed.

Police tape surrounds Wal-Mart located in the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream where a 34 year-old male employee died after a throng of shoppers knocked him to the ground.

A year after a Wal-Mart worker was trampled to death by a massive crowd of bargain-hunting shoppers, the retail giant is implementing new crowd control measures to handle the crush that typically accompanies the day after Thanksgiving - Black Friday.

24 school district obtained reimbursement for nearly $3,000 in convention expenses without submitting registration forms or other proof of attendance, according to state auditors, who also fault the district for accumulating excess cash reserves.

Police examine the front of the Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, N.Y., on Black Friday 2008 after a worker died when shoppers broke down the doors and trampled him moments after the store opened.

VALLEY STREAM, NY, November 07, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Central Florist, a local flower shop on Long Island since 1969, is pleased to announce the availability of its newly redesigned Web site.

The woman, a Queens resident, now faces grand larceny and forgery charges. Detectives with the Nassau County Police Department's crimes against property squad gave the following description of the incident: Melinda Mahoney, 33, of 175th Street, Jamaica , set up the account with a JP Morgan Chase Bank branch at 930 Rosedale Rd.

Under the deal, Reich agreed to forfeit any claims to pension credits earned after he was falsely reported as a full-time employee of five school districts at the same time.

East Rockaway village trustee Bruno Romano, 49, was among three men who were ordered to appear in court to answer petit larcency charges for an incident occured on October 30 in Valley Stream.

In the race for the Nassau County Legislaturea s 3rd District, Legislator John Ciotti, a Republican, of North Valley Stream is running against challenger Nina Petraro Bastardi, a Democrat, of Valley Stream.

With this aid, the county will for the first time invest in housing built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, green standards - $600,000 for six town homes planned as affordable housing in Hempstead Village by Valley Stream -based Bedford Construction.

Persi Esquivel at the Mineola courthouse after he was sentenced on Thursday. A Long Island man with one DWI conviction already on his record has been sentenced to seven-to-21 years in prison after admitting he was drunk when he killed a driver in a head-on crash.

Arlene Phipps, 47, is set for arraignment Tuesday on two counts of grand larceny, three counts of forgery and three counts of identity theft.