Valley Stream News

Share + Jul 7, 2009 12:09 pm US/Eastern VALLEY STREAM, N.Y. 1 of 1 A Valley Stream man was severely beaten outside his home by a group of about 12 teens on the Fourth of July.

Two 18-year-old men from Valley Stream were arrested Monday and charged with gang assault in a vicious attack early Sunday that left a 30-year-old Long Island Rail Road worker critically injured.

A Coram man was arrested Tuesday in connection with a robbery that occurred in Valley Stream on April 22, police said.

Ashes to ashes. Or was that, Village of Valley Stream to Jamaica Ash? Yes, after 25 years -- that's a quarter of a century, for anyone left in Hempstead Town who can still count -- the Village of Valley Stream had contracted with the Town of Hempstead for refuse disposal services.

As he finished reading his speech Friday at ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of D-Day, former Navy sailor Joseph Corsentino of Valley Stream added an impromptu reflection on the birth 14 years ago of his twin grandsons, Joseph and Donald Grupski of Massapequa Park.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc . was cited by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the death of a temporary worker trampled by a crowd of shoppers at its Valley Stream, New York, store the day after last Thanksgiving.

A two-story, 27,000 square foot office building in Valley Stream is being offered for $5.9 million.

U.S. Dept. of Labor Cites Wal*Mart Stores Inc. Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Westbury The federal agency in charge of health and safety in the workplace is making public the results of its investigation into the death of a Wall-Mart employee last Fall in Valley Stream.

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - The death of a temporary employee who was crushed in a stampede of post-Thanksgiving shoppers at a Long Island Walmart store could have been prevented, federal officials said Tuesday as they proposed fining the world's largest retailer $7,000. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced ...

May 20, 2009 5:23 pm US/Eastern Reporting Pablo Guzman LEVITTOWN, N.Y. A young girl wears a mask outside New York City's Elmhurst Hospital, where the emergency room was flooded by patients with flu-like symptoms on May 18, 2009.

Health officials on Long Island are reporting 13 new confirmed cases of swine flu in Nassau County.

Health officials on Long Island are reporting 13 new confirmed cases of swine flu in Nassau County, including a 4-year-old child who has been hospitalized.

May 19, 2009 11:43 pm US/Eastern The Nassau County Department of Health said late Tuesday night is has confirmed 13 new cases of H1N1.

Antoniette Santopadre of Valley Stream, New York was expecting a $250 stimulus check.

Millions of people are getting a Social Security check in the mail this week. But there's a slight problem: Thousands of them are dead.

Retail giant Walmart has agreed to pay nearly $2 million US and implement extra safety precautions following the death of an employee who was trampled last year at a Valley Stream, N.Y., store the day after Thanksgiving.

The father of a Walmart security guard who was trampled to death by bargain-crazed Black Friday shoppers said Thursday he was outraged over the superstore's settlement with prosecutors.

Wal-Mart is paying $2 million to avoid criminal charges in the death of a store employee on Long Island.

Retail giant Wal-Mart has agreed to pay out nearly $2 million and improve safety at 92 of its New York stores in order to avoid criminal charges in the trampling death of a seasonal worker last year, Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced Wednesday.

A grand jury has decided not to issue indictments against Wal Mart in the trampling death of an employee who was crushed in a Long Island store as a throng of shoppers scrambled for holiday bargains.