Kings Point News

U.S. Rep. John Shimkus is accepting applications from individuals interested in attending one of the U.S. military academies.

The villages of Great Neck, Kings Point and Lake Success will all hold elections this coming Tuesday, June 16.

Although she has excelled in the male-dominated world of shipbuilding - 8 percent of NASSCO's 4,700 employees are women - Kruger does not view her working life through the prism of male-female relations.

Joan H. Holda, 83, of Kings Point, was pronounced dead at Tampa General Hospital early on the morning April 28 after being airlifted from the scene on North Pebble Beach Boulevard following the 1 A.M. accident, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriffa s Office.

Four residents from Great Neck and Kings Point have sued the Village of Kings Point in an effort to halt plans to build a 10,000-square-foot public works building near their homes.

May 7, 2009 3:39 pm US/Eastern KINGS POINT, N.Y. A lawmaker says Long Island's U.S. Merchant Marine Academy is getting an additional $8 million in federal funding to boost anti-piracy training.

Missouri State's search for its next director of athletics continues today when candidate Rick Darnell of Baylor University appears at a public forum.

Four residents of Great Neck have served papers to the Village of Kings Point to block the construction of a maintenance building that was slated to break ground sometime this summer.

Students from the Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y., use a simulator to learn how to prevent becoming victims of pirate attacks.

Just two months ago, Laura Ladd was on a ship in the Gulf of Aden, peering into the black night with a flashlight and walkie-talkie. The 22-year-old senior at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point was on "pirate duty." "We rigged the fire hoses, did everything," said Ladd, of Tampa , Fla.

By GINA KINSLOW Glasgow Daily Times PARK CITY - Ben Bailey has tried to stay informed about the pirate situation involving the Maersk Alabama, which was attacked by pirates 350 miles off Somalia on April 8. The 21-year-old is a shipyard management student at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY.

It was in November of 2007 that the Village of Great Neck's board of trustees grimly acknowledged publicly that the village would have to abandon the waterfront residential rezoning plan that lost a court challenge and appeal.

A barge carrying almost six million gallons of number two home heating oil ran aground just off of Kings Point, N.Y., on Jan.

Midshipman Earl G. 'Trip' Webb III received a gold star at the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y. The award was for his academic achievement during the first term this fall.

Those mariners in the New York harbor plane disaster didn't wait for orders; they turned in an instant, just like they did during the World Trade Center disaster.

A barge carrying more than 5 million gallons of home heating oil reportedly struck an unknown object and began taking on water near City Island, N.Y., at approximately 2:30 p.m., Jan 22.

Our main focus is the Obama Inauguration. How people around here found ways to take part, even from more than 2 hundred miles away.

McRobbie , a midshipman at theA United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York is a member of the Academy's Band which will march in the parade on Tuesday.A TheA band at the Merchant Marine ...

For college junior Jeffrey Hubach, winter break is a time to stop traveling. Hubach, 20, recently returned from two voyages abroad, a requirement of his studies at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings ...

The condominium community of about 5,175 units will be initiating an entirely new election system in early 2009 as a one-unit, one- vote concept replaces the former election process which gave no more than 109 ...