Hempstead News Archives

Kevin Watkins, 23, of 675 Conklin St., Farmingdale, was charged with driving while intoxicated and speeding.

The fate of a new Nassau Coliseum and, more important, the grand Lighthouse project that would surround it, rests with Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray .

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

Pearl Gibson hugs Supervisor Kate Murray when given the key that gives her the opportunity to buy a condo in Elmont.

Written by Timothy Bolger on Oct 29th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

A public hearing that would have drawn a crowd of angry neighbors opposed to a proposed poultry slaughterhouse was canceled indefinitely on Tuesday.

Share + Oct 27, 2009 5:59 pm US/Eastern 1 of 1 Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg waits for the start of the third presidential debate in the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex at Hofstra University on Oct.

The $2.2-million hydrogen fuel station, financed by a combination of local and state funding with partners such as LIPA and National Grid , sits in a parking lot next to the Town of Hempstead's Department of Conservation and Waterways in Point Lookout .

Police tape closes off the scene on Meadow Street where a victim was found stabbed Thursday.

Democratic incumbent Jon Kaiman is seeking re-election to his fourth two-year, term as Town of North Hempstead Supervisor.

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. a ' A poll finds President Barack Obama's approval rating among suburban residents varies widely depending on the race or ethnicity of those being asked.

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced that Dwayne Dailey has been sentenced to 100 years to life in prison for murdering 17-year-old Edwin Mejia Alvarado and shooting three of his friends as they sat in a car behind the La Boom nightclub in Westbury.

Kevan Abrahams, Legislative candidate Nina Petraro Bastardi and candidate for county clerk Carrie Solages - have joined to ask the U.S. Justice Department to post poll monitors at election sites in Nassau's minority areas to thwart what they call "voter suppression tactics." The announcement came during a news conference the three held in Elmont ...

Villeda, of Hempstead, suffered a fatal blow to the left side of his neck late Saturday at a gas station a block away from his home, said Nassau police spokesman Det.

Around 11:40 p.m., Nassau police said, Hempstead Village police officers responded to a call for a possible assault and found the unidentified man at 182 Henry St.

NEW HEMPSTEAD - More than 100 people from all over Rockland attended a rally today to show their opposition to plans by the village of New Square to build a chicken slaughterhouse on a vacant piece of land on Route 45.

The Associated Press= The following recall has been announced: A A A' About 150,000 Quantum office chairs, made in China and imported by Raynor Marketing LTD, of West Hempstead, N.Y., because the bolts attaching the chair's seat back can loosen and detach, posing a fall and injury hazard.

North Hempstead Town Councilwoman Lee Seeman, representing the 5th council district , is seeking reelection.

Jane Fisher, 40, of Whitestar Avenue in West Hempstead , had three bags of crack, three clonazepam pills and two crack pipes, each containing cocaine residue.

Lighthouse Project MINEOLA, NY-Reports regarding death of the Lighthouse project here are greatly exaggerated.

Written by Associated Press on Oct 14th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

NEW HEMPSTEAD - A widening group of people furious about a plan to build a chicken slaughterhouse using tax dollars across the street from a residential neighborhood plans to hold a rally Saturday to express its opposition.

County, accusing the county of approving the Bay Park sewer consolidation plan without a detailed environmental impact statement.

Authorities say an off-duty New York City police officer who displayed a handgun while trying to quiet unruly passengers on a train has been arrested and suspended without pay.

In all, 80 income-eligible families will get to rent one of the town-house-style apartments.

While many municipal governments may be struggling to balance budgets and put forth fiscal plans that are sound, the Village of Mineola is in better shape than ever, says its Mayor, Jack M. Martins.

Written by Patrick Kelton on Oct 9th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

Dwayne Dailey arrive at the Nassau County Courthouse for his trial on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 in Mineola.

Hempstead Village's downtown core, the village board Tuesday night approved a sweeping plan to modify restrictions on land use, the first major revision to the village's zoning laws since 1993.

At the last meeting of the New Hyde Park Village, a resident, at the start of the meeting, said she would like to praise the village for quick and efficient action in response to a problem.

In June of 1989, Dorothy LeConte, 22, of Haiti, who had come to the area to study at Technical Career Institute in New York, took a trip to Hempstead to visit her aunt and brother.

Cops lead Joey Bethea out of police headquarters in Mineola on Wednesday. The attorney representing an upstate lumberyard worker charged this week in Nassau County with a 20-year-old killing and rape in Hempstead said Joey Bethea "had no fear" when he gave the DNA sample that authorities say links him to the attack.

Nassau police lead Joey Bethea out of police headquarters in Mineola after he was charged with raping and killing a woman in Hempstead.

Detectives relying on DNA evidence arrested an upstate man in the 1989 killing of a New Jersey woman in Hempstead, Nassau police said.

Two men are under arrest, charged in the burglary of a Hempstead apartment after they fled empty-handed when they were surprised by the woman who lived there, Nassau police said.

A swab of DNA has linked a Bainbridge man with a 20-year-old murder downstate. Dorothy LeConte's 1989 death on the grounds of Hempstead High School went unsolved for decades until Nassau County Police got their break: a DNA match from 38-year-old Joey Bethea, a lumberyard worker arrested June 23, 2009, in Bainbridge on a petit larceny charge.