Lawrence News

Nassau County police are looking for a man who allegedly robbed a cabdriver at knifepoint in North Lawrence on Friday afternoon.

Superstorm Sandy's destructive effects on Lawrence Village and need for improvements in emergency communications and infrastructure top the list of concerns among the three candidates -- one incumbent and a pair of challengers -- running in Tuesday's village elections.

Members of the Lawrence Cedarhurst Fire Department rescue a woman from the roof of her car after she became stranded in flood water at the intersection of Marbridge Road and Meadow Lane in Lawrence.

A recount is under way in the Lawrence school district to find the winner of last week's election in a three-way race for school board.

The New York Power Authority has announced that the NYPA Board of Trustees has authorized $31 million in funding to help upgrade NYPA's transmission system in Central and Northern New York.

That is the way Governor Andrew M. Cuomo described his newly announced Tax-Free NY program that he is looking to pass enabling legislation with only five weeks left in session.

Katherine Mary Kaiser Burch, 81, of West Oak Hill Road, Jamestown, died Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at Buffalo General Hospital, Buffalo, N.Y. She was born on April 7, 1932 in Dunkirk to the late Lawrence and Esther Kaiser.

Though results remain unofficial, Jesse Lunin-Pack, left, defeated Tova Plaut, center, and Dov Herman in the race to replace Dr.