Commack News

Courtney, Courtney, Courtney. Will this be the night? $250,000 in the bag? A dream come true? A future on the dance floor secured? "Courtney" needs no introduction ... but just in case, here goes.

Video highlights of the Huntington Town Board meeting Tuesday night, including comments about safety concerns from residents.

A classroom trick used by a veteran high school teacher to help unsuspecting acting students has been used as the basis for “Theater Games,” a new play now in rehearsals and scheduled for its first performance later this month by the Bare Bones Theater Company in Northport.

Trusting his instincts after neighbors insisted the only occupant of a burning house was a dog, a Commack fire chief rescued not only a German Shepherd but a woman trapped upstairs, authorities said.

The Vanderbilt Museum is getting ready to unveil a 32-foot whale shark specimen that has been restored from heavy damage that almost did it in.

An 88-year-old Commack woman died in her home Wednesday when her clothes caught fire while she was in the kitchen cooking, police said.

A Long Island high school principal has been accused of driving while intoxicated.

Grace Spadaro, known in the neighborhood as “Grandma,” died Wednesday in her home after her clothes caught fire while she cooked. Suffolk investigators have ruled Spadaro’s death an accident.

An 89-year-old Long Island woman burned to death in her kitchen after her clothes caught fire while she was cooking.

Investigating a commercial burglary in East Northport, noticed a distinct pattern of holes in several doors that led him to witnesses.

A big round of applause for our Ponquogue Beach lifeguards! Last Saturday afternoon, we observed a team of lifeguards assisting two people who were having difficulty getting back to shore.

Wednesday King's Park native Paul Griffin reads from his young adult novel, "Ten Mile River" , about two teens who escape from foster care to squat an abandoned New York City building.

A bird found in Plainview has tested positive for West Nile virus, this season's first finding in Nassau County , health officials said Thursday.

Among the contestants still in the running are Commack 's own Courtney Galiano , who was at one time a Knicks City Dancer .

The Town of Huntington has announced plans to rename Ramita Lane in Commack after Dennis Scauso, a firefighter who grew up on the quarter-mile-long road in the 1960s and died during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11.

Police are searching for this woman after they say she used a fake ID in an attempt to get a credit card at a Commack Home Expo store.

The Long Island Dog Owners Group, which boasts a mailing list of 1,000 dog owners from Long Island, held a "Yappy Hour" Thursday evening at a new pub in Huntington. Here's a video:

Commack A car radio was stolen July 3 on Eileen Court. A Gardenia Drive resident told police she found syringes on her front porch July 5. A burglary was reported July 7 at a store on Jericho Turnpike.

A 6-year-old girl was killed and the girl's mother critically injured in a fiery three-car crash Tuesday night on the Northern State Parkway in Commack, State Police said.

For the first time in Suffolk County this year, a bird has tested positive for West Nile virus, while Nassau County reported its first isolation of the virus in a mosquito pool, health officials announced ...