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The Week That Was: Potential Suicide on LIRR; Fatal Crash

Top stories for the week in Huntington.

: Service on the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road was halted early Friday after a train struck a 19-year-old man in Huntington Station, according to a rail road spokesman.

: At least two people were injured when a taxi and two other cars collided Thursday on Park Avenue.

: A Glen Head man accused of taking iPhone video recordings in a South Huntington school bathroom is due in court July 10.

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: Gregory Henig, 53, of Holbrook, was driving his 2005 Honda southbound on Meadow Glen Road when police said his vehicle struck a 2008 Honda, driven by Jennifer Snyder, 41, of Huntington Station, which was travelling westbound on Pulaski Road. 

: A portion of the Northport VA Medical Center parking lot was paved Thursday with the help of a local leader and several small business who stepped up to help a veteran in need.

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: The Suffolk County Legislature narrowly passed legislation June 19 to outlaw smoking in most areas of county parks and beaches.

: Competing for the first time in a handicapping contest at Belmont Park, the 47-year-old Huntington resident beat 248 contestants Sunday to win the $40,000 grand prize in the 2012 Summer Handicapping Challenge.

: Winners of the Town of Huntington's 36th Annual Beautification Awards were announced last month.

: A two-vehicle accident on Rt. 110 in Melville Tuesday critically injured two, including an 89-year-old Huntington man and a 77-year old East Northport woman.

: The case of a Brooklyn woman charged with DWI after crashing a car through the front of a Huntington home last month is on the docket July 10 at Suffolk First District Court in Central Islip.

: Last Friday marked the opening of the newest addition to the Walt Whitman Shops — Anthropologie.

: Engaged in April and headed to work on Wall Street Tuesday, a young Huntington professional lost a two-carat, sapphire and diamond engagement ring on her left hand. It was found and returned later that day.


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