Garden City News

As 1944 started, Jim Gray was a young man of 19 years growing up in Queens Village.

An album signing scheduled Friday for teen sensation Justin Bieber at Roosevelt Field Mall was canceled because a crowd of 3,000 young girls and their parents started aggressively pushing and shoving, police said.

The Nassau County Firefighters Museum in East Garden City revealed an interactive memorial honoring 138 Nassau firefighters killed in the line of duty, including 23 who died on Sept.

With the room filled to capacity and people standing in the hall, those in attendance at the last BOT [Board of Trustees] meeting to protest newly imposed, exorbitant parking fees were seemingly treated to an exercise in futility.

Share + Comments Nov 17, 2009 7:11 pm US/Eastern Reporting Jennifer McLogan GARDEN CITY, N.Y. Some college students at Adelphi University pledged a sorority whose mission is to spread breast cancer awareness, but with the new testing advice from the government, they no longer know what to think.

Education Nassau BOCES, which is based in Garden City and serves 56 school districts, has named Thomas L. Rogers district superintendent, effective January 19, 2010.

Life is a cake walk for retired Rikers Island Correction Officer turned Lottery millionaire Norris Henry of Westbury, Nassau County.

Garden City police are beefing up patrols on and around Meadow Street to help ease the concerns of residents there who have been on edge ever since a dead body was found on the front lawn of 65 Meadow Street.

A waitress pours tea at Teapot, a newly opened tea room in Bellmore. Afternoon tea is a chance to drop the cares of the world and, for at least one golden hour, share a gracious little meal rich in tradition.

After deliberating less than an hour, a jury convicted Yveson Elie, 20, of Franklin Square , of six counts of second-degree robbery, prosecutors said.

For those who like their music presented as soundtracks, tours bringing the tunes - " and some cast members - " of a hot movie that should be scary but isn't and a hot TV show that's supposed to be funny but is really scary are scheduled to swing into malls nationwide in the next couple of days.

On Thursday, Nov. 26, Thanksgiving Day, we will be preparing and delivering hot meals to homebound senior citizens, coordinating this program from our home.

I would like to thank the residents and employees who donated blood Wednesday, Oct.

Though he visits monthly, he also scans a live feed to the security cameras there on the computer in his Garden City office.

Rochester, N.Y. a ' A tractor trailer rolled over on the Lyell Avenue exit ramp of the southbound 390 around 4:20 Tuesday afternoon.

Laurie Sisk/Telegram This photo illustration show a driver texting on a cell phone while driving a car.

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Republican incumbent Mark Bonilla is seeking re-election as Hempstead town clerk, which holds a two-year term.

Donald McCallum, 50, was arrested by Nassau County police Robbery Squad detectives Wednesday morning in Leesburgh, Ga., and charged with third-degree robbery.

When billionaire Madoff investor Jeffry Picower was found dead at the bottom of the swimming pool at his oceanfront estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on October 25, he left behind lingering questions about the nature of Bernard Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme.