Great Neck News

A wanted man with a criminal history dating back nearly 15 years was identified by police Saturday as the masked home invader involved in the death of a Hofstra University student early Friday morning.

Dalton Smith, who was wanted on a parole violation related to a first-degree robbery conviction, attempted to rob the off-campus home where he and Hofstra junior Andrea Rebello were fatally shot, Nassau County police said.

Hofstra students gather near a house where Hostra junior Andrea Rebello was shot and killed early Friday during a home invasion.

The mourning period after the death of a loved one can be a difficult period for any family.

A former chief executive of a financial firm who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a probe into bid-rigging in the municipal bond market was sentenced to two years probation on Friday by a judge who cited his cooperation with U.S. investigators.

I am a resident of Great Neck, and, like most New Yorkers, I am dismayed by the continuing corruption in Albany.

Young scientists from North and South High Schools took awards at the WAC Lighting Foundation Invitational Science Fair.

Once again the Great Neck School District received a host of gifts and donations.

On Tuesday, May 21, the Great Neck community should come out in support of the school and library budgets which are subject to a vote.

The Great Gatsby, Nassau County Museum of Art 's 2013 Museum Ball, celebrates the glamorous Gold Coast era immortalized in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel.

A kosher supermarket in Great Neck, New York, is priding itself on its special bread oven, which came all the way from Iran.

We do not know why, but it seems that lately, more than ever, drivers are completing ignoring "no parking" signs and regularly double-parking on Great Neck's already crowded roads.

The property was purchased in 1925 by financier industrialist and philanthropist August Heckscher.

If director Baz Luhrmann offered full automotive fidelity to F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel in his 3-D version of ' The Great Gatsby ,' Leo DiCaprio would drive a 1922 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost.* Fitzgerald described that ride as being "bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length...and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields ... (more)

In Huntington Village flooding. caution on Rt-110 Both NB/SB between Rt-25a/Main St and CR-35/Mill Dam Rd/Park Ave in Huntington In Huntington Village flooding.

Russell Bailyn and Jay Gatsby have several things in common: They are both wealthy, live in Long Island, and know how to throw a great 1920s party.

A former oil distribution and storage facility on Manhasset Bay will be the site of Avalon Bay Communities next multifamily rental project.

For my 30th birthday I decided to rent a historic mansion in the Litchfield area of Connecticut.

This dedication to public service not only extends to Wohlgemuth's children, one of whom is a litigator over in Mineola and the other serving in the Navy, but is a legacy of her mother, who died of cancer at the age of 51.

Event coordinator Jennifer Wood touts this as the "number one best attended one-day event on Long Island." A crowd of over 50,000 is expected, coming from near and far, to enjoy the food, the games, the entertainment and the amazing shopping experience.