Nassau County News

DEBORAH S. MORRIS. AND SID CASSESE. deborah.morris@newsday.co., sid.cassese@newsday.com Quick Summary A scheduled performance by teen sensation Justin Bieber at Roosevelt Field Mall had to be canceled after the crowd became too large.

Nassau County police have charged Charles Van Cleave, 51, of 720 Lenox Ave., Manhattan, with five counts of fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, three counts of fourth-degree grand larceny and two counts each of second-degree and third-degree identity theft.

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.

Duffy & Duffy, the preeminent medical malpractice law firm in Long Island, New York, secured a $3.1 million verdict in Nassau County Supreme Court in the 10th Judicial District against the South Shore Heart Associates, a cardiology group located in Rockville Centre.

At 11 a.m. Thursday, the Nassau County Firefighters Museum in Uniondale is set to reveal a $160,000 interactive memorial honoring Nassau firefighters killed in the line of duty.

A North Hills cardiologist is adamantly denying charges that he spied on female employees with a hidden camera inside his Manhasset office bathroom.

Valdez was in jail that the guilt hit her. Valdez, 36, of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, was doing time in Suffolk County jail for stealing to support her drug addiction.

Nassau County Board of Elections workers, lawyers and observers count paper ballots that will decide the race for county executive.

Officers took James Peterson, 36, into custody Thursday at a federal correctional facility in Hopewell, Va., where he is currently serving a 9-year sentence for a prior conviction, Nassau County police said.

A boy was struck at 5:43 p.m. Sunday as he was bicycling east on Route 109 near Staples Street, police said.

It turned out the foursome had been involved in other similar incidents, including one earlier that day in Lynbrook, police said.

The Atlantic Steamer Fire Company would like to invite the community to an Open House and Dedication of their new Water Rescue Facility on Sunday, Nov.

The couple who turned in a Roslyn, N.Y., lawyer for allegedly masterminding a multi-state adoption Ponzi scheme admitted they ignored numerous red flags along the way.

A high school baseball coach who broke a freshman player's hand with a pitch during batting practice has been found guilty of negligence.

Michael Lohan could wind up behind bars for his despicable decision to release secret recordings of his family's phone conversations -- because it appears MiLo wasn't legally allowed to be on the calls in the first place.

The slow recount for the election of Nassau County Executive continues in Mineola.

Police on Long Island have accused three teens of stealing schoolbooks from a middle school, shredding them and setting them on fire.

A fatal house fire broke out at a Nassau County house early Thursday morning in Long Island.

ALBANY -- After talking tough about the need to cut state spending, Gov. David Paterson this morning suggested that he's open to any deal with legislative leaders could close a $3.2 billion mid-year budget deficit.

Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi has been the go-to guy for two New York governors and on short lists for U.S. Senate, lieutenant governor, governor and attorney general.