Headlines From Nearby Communities

A Nassau County Grand Jury has indicted a Plainview mother on murder charges, alleging she intentionally fed her 8-year-old daughter food she was allergic to on the day she was to serve as a flower girl, authorities said.

Three men, including one from Farmingdale, were arrested after an incident involving fireworks in Elmont eventually ended in a Monday morning car crash in West Hempstead.

A Commack man was struck and killed on the Long Island Rail Road tracks early Friday morning, according to a LIRR spokesman. Long Island Rail Road officials reported Gary McCue, 42, of Commack, was hit by a westbound train approximately 600 feet east of Carll's Path, near the Deer Park train station at approximately 8 a.m. Friday.

It’s been a business decision 14 years in the making, but wildly popular Northport pitstop  is moving beyond coffee and cakes.

Two local state parks are part of a $34 million investment project to upgrade and repair seven state parks on Long Island.  will receive $3.5 million to rehabilitate the bathhouse and make emergency services improvements. The $14 million in funds allocated to Nissequogue River State Park is money that was already secured by State Sen. John Flanagan and is being used for the demolition of vacant and condemned buildings that are part of the park and former Kings Park Psychiatric Hospital.  

Eileen Koff's first trip to Uganda yielded a hard lesson in the differences between America and rural Africa. "Things that we don’t even think about, they deal with on a daily basis," she said. Among those things: Shoes. Going to school. Electricity to light their homes. Having parents, grandparents, or parental figures to raise them. Koff's next effort: to build an orphanage, a project which is still in its infancy. To fundraise, she has begun selling beaded necklaces and handbags made by Mukisa and the children, and has raised $800 so far within the last couple of weeks. Building the orphanage – to be named the Peace Island Children's Centre – will cost around $25,000, she said, to purchase land and construct the building.