Amityville News

Amityville, New York is a quiet community on a lake. Its name means "friendship," and its citizens try their best to live up to that name.

As I try to finish the final draft of my new book, I found these letters, from angry New Yorkers who were frustrated by heavy rains knocking out the NYC subways in 2007, to be quite useful.

Norris Henry, right, and his wife Eleanor hold their check for six million dollars from the NY Lottery at the Lindenhurst shop he bought his ticket.

ROXBURY - The township council is set to approve tonight a bond ordinance that would pay for a $567,421 artificial turf field at Roxbury High School.

Originally printed 11/5/2009 Ryan Reynolds gets his own 'Tootsie' Ryan Reynolds knows the gays love him already for all the shirtless woodchopping he did in that "Amityville Horror" remake.

It'll run every Monday to Friday until I run out of interviews. Two of these interviews will be reprinted in Apex Magazine but the rest are exclusive to SF Signal.] Jetse de Vries is a technical specialist for a propulsion company by day, and an SF editor, writer and reader at night.

Originally the ancestral home of Native Americans and later settled by Europeans during the 1600s, Long Island is rich in history and is absolutely loaded with folklore, myths and urban legends.

It seems indisputable now that there's a gang violence problem in Huntington Station.

This is the former home of television star Ozzie Nelson, 1822 Camino Palmero, seen Dec.

A retired New York City Police officer from Long Island is hospitalized today and faces multiple charges, including attempted murder, after breaking into his estranged wife's home, shooting her several times, then side-swiping an ambulance as it raced to the crime scene.

Written by Timothy Bolger on Oct 21st, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

A retired city cop broke into his estranged wife's home, shot her, and then crashed into a responding ambulance in his attempt to flee the scene, according to Suffolk police.

Local contractors and suppliers have filed more than $1.7 million in work liens against the dormant condominium project known as 21 West Water Street in Sag Harbor.

He's written, directed, choreographed, scored and stars in a gospel-themed play that opened last night for a limited run at Manhattan 's Beacon Theater .

A Riverhead jury began deliberations Thursday in the sexual abuse trial of a Commack man charged with having improper physical contact with two brothers, ages 7 and 5, who were in his care.

"He hurt two innocent boys with absolutely no defenses at all," Suffolk prosecutor Dana Brown told the jury Wednesday in closing arguments.

Share + Oct 9, 2009 6:31 pm US/Eastern Reporting Dana Tyler AMITYVILLE, N.Y. A Long Island woman is recounting the terror she and her daughter endured at the hands of her ex-husband. This as efforts are underway to create an online registry of domestic violence offenders, just like sex offenders.

Share + Oct 9, 2009 7:05 pm US/Eastern Reporting Dana Tyler AMITYVILLE, N.Y. 1 of 1 The Boss and his band will play the final show at Giants Stadium and fans could not be more excited to hear those history final notes.

Scores of military veterans, public officials and Suffolk residents paid tribute Saturday to U.S. service members killed in action and stood in solidarity with their families at the unveiling of the county's Gold Star Families monument outside government offices in Hauppauge.

By KRISTA HAYES Staff Writer For years, stories of haunted houses with psychic forces have spooked children and adults, but two Wapakoneta High School juniors are questioning ones creditability in particular - the Amityville Horror story.