Queens County News

From the Queens Courier : In only six days, three northeast Queens banks have been robbed by someone claiming to be carrying a bomb.

A retired New York City correction captain working security at a Queens bowling alley shot and wounded two men during a violent confrontation early Saturday morning outside the alley, the authorities said.

Assigned Counsel lawyer Eugene Young raised eyebrows in City Court recently when he claimed the young woman standing by his side facing an arson charge had a perfectly legal right to set fire to her own car.

"As a young Democrat , I am disgusted at this joke called the Queens County Young Democrats , which marches in lockstep with Crowley-backed incumbents.

Today is Groundhog Day, and although I don't put much stock into the predictions of small burrowing animals, I am thrilled by the real meaning of this day: the little, tiny, teensy, barely palpable flicker of optimism that winter will in fact end, and that spring will come.

Oyster Bay , L.I. For Heather, 31, meeting Joseph, 34, was the icing on the cake at a party celebrating her graduation from SUNY Old Westbury .

Voters in Queens are used to Tony Avella the rebel, the rabblerouser, the gleeful, swiping, sniping firebrand.

On Wednesday, Jan. 27, the New York State Veterans Home at Stony Brook University is hosting its Vaccines for Veterans Day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Veterans and their family members are invited to receive their seasonal flu shot or the H1N1 flu vaccine.

For a guy who dropped his Republican registration three years ago and insists he's above petty partisan politics, Mike Bloomberg seems to have staked an awfully large claim in the battle over leadership of the city's largest GOP organization.

Rick Lazio, whose fund-raising committees have included some of the titans of Wall Street, has raised $1.1 million and has $637,000 in the bank.

They don't teach this in journalism school. But yesterday, I discovered the perfect lede .

A Queens man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to scamming more than 100 immigrants - primarily from the Ecuadorian community, some of them from Long Island - out of more than $50,000 by promising to help them expedite immigration matters, Queens prosecutors said.

District Attorney Richard Brown, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly at a gun buyback in Queens.

A report released Wednesday by the Special Commissioner of Investigation found that a principal of a Queens high school solicited sex from many of his male students.

On Saturday, Dec. 19 at 2 p.m., the Massapequa Park Library at 40 Harbor Lane will have the Massapequa Park Movie Man John Carpenter present as his last Classic Film Program until March another one of his rare screen gems from out of his 3,000-plus film collection.

If you're thinking about putting jewelry or a laptop computer in a checked bag when taking a holiday flight, you might want to think again.

More than 3,500 registered New York sex offenders have been purged from the social-networking sites Facebook and MySpace, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday at a news conference at Brighton High School.

In office: 1818-1821 The most remarkable thing about New York City having a mayor named Cadwallader Colden is the fact that he was not even the most famous New Yorker named Cadwallader Colden.

There doesn' seem to be a peaceful end to the pooh versus shoe battle. People sick of arching their backs and contorting their legs so they can sniff the bottom of their sneaker are chanting 'No Poop Left Behind!' Now I've joined them.

On the evening of Nov. 2, Jimmy Van Bramer made one last trip to an apartment building in Sunnyside that he had canvassed frequently during his Council campaign.