Lake Success News

Authorities say the same house caught fire two nights in a row this week. Nassau County, N.Y., Fire Marshal Michael Mennello says both fires have been deemed accidental.

Nassau fire marshal Michael Mennello was on the phone Wednesday night, explaining to a homeowner why her Lake Success house had caught fire the night before, when he heard a call over the radio: The house was on fire again.

Lake Success-based Grassi & Co. partnered with New York Construction magazine on the report that surveyed construction company officials on the state of their business, including organizational structure, contract types, training and technology, profitability and access to capital, financial tools, business development and future vision.

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

Retailers live and die by two sets of numbers: sales per square foot and rent per square foot.

Two Brooklyn men, arrested in the act of looting credit cards and other documents from home mailboxes in Lake Success, face a court hearing Thursday, police said.

The Liberty Sun, a ship registered in Lake Success was attacked about 300 miles off the coast of Somalia.

Lake Success, N.Y.- Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging and software solutions, today introduced the imageFORMULA DR-6010C departmental scanner.

AriZona, Poland Spring, Nestle beverages use amber-colored UV- and oxygen-barrier PET bottles.

After U.S. Navy SEALs killed three men holding an American captain hostage in the Gulf of Aden, some Somali pirates vowed retaliation, saying they would target U.S. ships in the area.

The head of a Lake Success-based shipping company that had one of its vessels attacked by Somali pirates will lobby Congress on Tuesday for arming cargo ships.

Two westbound lanes of the Long Island Expressway are closed after a truck fire in Lake Success.

Oscar-nominated actress and producer Talia Shire was at the center of two of the most popular film franchises in Hollywood - " she was the painfully shy Adrian, who won the heart of rough-hewn boxer Rocky Balboa in the "Rocky" series, and appeared as Connie Corleone, youngest daughter of Don Vito Corleone in "The Godfather" sequels.

While son-of-Carter Brack Obama mulls over the options available to him with regard to those Somali pirates, American merchant seamen are still risking their lives and dodging bullets: Pirates Fail in Attack on U.S. Ship By Mark McDonald, New York Times Hong Kong - An American cargo ship was attacked by pirates armed with grenade launchers and ...

Somali pirates hijacked two more cargo vessels and opened fire on two others on Tuesday in attacks that showed a determination to go on striking at shipping on the region's strategic trade routes.

MELVILLE, N.Y. ? When the ship Liberty Sun was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia on Tuesday, it was traveling a dangerous route, but one its company's vessels had made safely hundreds of times.

A pirate "mother ship" was intercepted by French forces on Wednesday. The French Defense Ministry said the raid thwarted a pirate attack on a Liberian-registered vessel.

An American cargo ship damaged by Somali pirates while carrying humanitarian supplies has arrived safely in a Kenyan port under U.S. Navy escort.

The crew of Maersk Alabama comes out of the bus as they arrive at Serena Hotel Mombasa in Kenya, after leaving the ship after handing over to the new crew Tuesday, April 14, 2009.

Somali pirates have attacked and damaged an American ship carrying humanitarian aid, but the ship and crew are safe under Navy escort.

A U.S. Central Command spokesman says the Liberty Sun reported being attacked around 11:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday. The vessel's owner, Lake Success, N.Y.-based Liberty Maritime Corp., says the pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons. The ship was en route from Houston to Mombasa, Kenya.

The military spokesman, Navy Capt. Jack Hanzlik, says the Liberty Sun has a crew of about 20.