Farmingdale News

Video footage of Lita Ford 's July 6, 2008 performance at Club Loaded at The Crazy Donkey in Farmingdale, New York can be viewed below .

NEW YORK - A popular beach on Long Island was evacuated at the height of a holiday weekend after stray, unexploded fireworks washed ashore the day after a July Fourth show, state parks officials said Saturday.

Three at-risk students from the Farmingdale School District Earn & Learn, a unique work-incentive-mentoring program, are graduating this June and all three students will be attending college.

It's the Star-Spangled weekend and time to dive into the stars and stripes of the American table: burgers and hot dogs.

A former NetJets flight attendant is claiming employment opportunities have "gone to the dogs" for her after an inflight fall in 2006 and the passenger, actress and singer Jennifer Lopez, should be held ...

The Farmingdale Soccer Club held its annual end-of-season Championship Day on June 1 at Allen Park.

Concerned residents questioned Nassau County's upcoming project proposal for the Massapequa Preserve at a meeting held at the Farmingdale Public Library June 18.

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Some Long Islanders were ordering fireworks to go at the local coffee truck. Nassau County detectives arrested James Rankin, of Wantagh, N.Y., on charges of possession of fireworks on Tuesday.

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The Village Pops Concerts, directed and founded by former Farmingdale High School music teacher and alumnus Brad DeMilo, are set to begin on Wednesday, June 25 at 7:30 p.m. In its 26th year, the Village Pops ...

The new village proprietor Patty Giannakakis visited with The Farmingdale Breakfast Rotary to introduce her unique store, which has brought old-world charm back to Farmingdale.

Two boys stand next to a balloon as it's inflated Friday evening at the Heineken 93Q Balloon Fest at Jamesville Beach County Park.

On Thursday night on Long Island, there was a sign and sound of the times.

An insect infestation that occurs every 17 years is really bugging residents.

They're called cicadas and as CBS 2 HD has learned, everything you've heard about them is true.

"This is the chorus of the cicadas -- the 17 year locusts," Coram homeowner Karen Chalson said. "They are everywhere. You step on them they squash! ICK!"

Chalson and her neighbors live in cicada country these days. Pennequid Road in Coram is one of several Suffolk County locations currently infested.

At a recent conference of the local municipal and business officials for downtown revitalization, Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi added three new categories for revitalized downtowns.

Health Canada is warning consumers not to use Desire, an unauthorized product promoted to enhance male sexual performance as this product may pose serious health risks in certain patients.

Nothing guarantees success like - to paraphrase a popular lyric from "Guys and Dolls" - good old reliable practice.

The Nassau County Police Department's Eighth Squad reported details of an arrest for Kidnapping and Criminal Impersonation made on Tuesday, May 27 at 2:35 a.m. in Levittown.

The Farmingdale Board of Education chose to honor Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto with its Friend of Education Award at the board meeting on Wednesday, May 28.

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