Hewlett News

A 21-year-old professional poker player from Michigan hit a lucky king to cap a nearly impossible comeback at the World Series of Poker, setting up a showdown with a self-employed logger for $8.55 million.

CELESTE HADRICK AND JAMES T. MADORE. celeste.hadrick@newsday.com ,, james.madore@newsday.com Photo credit: Photo by Howard Schnapp A proposal by Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi for the executive to control school districts was dismissed out of hand by superintendents and local politicians Saturday.

To launch the event, Tinkelman met last spring with schools Superintendent Les Omotani, who gave Tinkelman approval to move ahead with his idea: a music and art festival.

With men accounting for 72 percent of the nation's job losses since the beginning of the recession, many American families are looking to mom to bring home the bacon.

The incident at a home on Henrietta Place was reported at 10:46 a.m., police said.

Share + Oct 14, 2009 4:49 pm US/Eastern Reporting Jennifer McLogan HEWLETT, N.Y. The hunt is on Wednesday night for two brazen burglars who burst into a family home masquerading as Con Edison workers on Long Island, terrorizing their victims.

Nassau County police are on the hunt for two men who they say impersonated Con Edison workers and forced their way into a home in Hewlett.

The public is invited to the League of Women Voters' candidates forum on Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. at the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library, 1125 Broadway, Hewlett.

A Woodmere dentist is charged with writing and filling bogus painkiller prescriptions using names of former patients and friends to fuel his own addiction.

A suspect was arrested about an hour later, and police charged Nicholas Inslee, 28, of 7 Cammerer Ave., East Rockaway , with robbery, assault and resisting arrest.

Any Nassau County High School football team seeded fifth, seventh or eighth in its respective conference began the season with back-to-back road games and will play at home for the first time in 2009 in Week 3. That includes eight locals: Baldwin, Calhoun, Clarke, East Meadow, East Rockaway, Kennedy, Long Beach and Lynbrook.

Orientation for seventh-graders entering Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School this year will be held on Thursday, September 3, starting at 9:45 a.m. at the school, which is located on Moriches-Middle Island Road in Manorville.

Seven-figure top lines abound--if not in the most obvious places. Best friends Adrian Salamunovic and Nazim Ahmed weren't looking for the next million-dollar idea.

Kingstone Cos. Inc. has completed its conversion from an agency franchiser to a property/casualty insurance carrier, the company said.

Swimmers beware...that's what Nassau County is telling people looking to spend their days on the beach.

The partially engraved Jewish tombstones used to shore up a Long Island golf course were donated by two former members roughly 50 years ago, according to the facility's president.

The manicured sprawl of a chic Long Island country club holds a morbid mystery. Hundreds of partially engraved Jewish tombstones shore up portions of the Woodmere Club golf course against the waters of Reynolds Channel, the Post has learned.

Due to heavy rainfall, the Nassau County Department of Health has closed the following 19 beaches as a precautionary measure, effective today, July 8, 2009.

Two taxi dispatchers were arrested and charged this week with cheating their Hewlett employer by lowballing the mileage - and the passenger fares - on trip sheets, then pocketing the extra cash, police said.

Heavy rains today prompted the Nassau County Health Department to close three North Shore beaches as a precaution, officials said.