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Martin Simmons, a veteran fireman of Engine Co. 111 in Brooklyn, drowned in Lake Tahoe earlier this week.

Martin Simmons, a veteran fireman of Engine Co. 111 in Brooklyn, drowned in Lake Tahoe earlier this week.

A veteran New York City firefighter from Nesconset drowned in Lake Tahoe while trying to rescue his 10-year-old-son in the lake's chilly waters earlier this week, according to Nevada officials.

As food costs seemingly rise by the minute, savvy shoppers looking to stretch their dollars and eat healthier can get help with both at a pair of Affordable Food Summits to be held at local Stop & Shop stores.

Eight months after a tragic traffic accident took the lives of three teenagers on Jericho Turnpike in Smithtown, the state Department of Transportation will unveil plans Thursday designed to improve safety on a ...

SMITHTOWN TOWN BOARD Meeting and public hearing: 7 p.m. Thursday, Eugene A. Cannataro Senior Citizen Center, 420 Middle Country Rd.

Christopher Baribault used to spend Friday nights curled up on the sofa, watching TV with his dad.

Legislator Vivian Viloria-Fisher was elected deputy presiding officer of the Suffolk County Legislature Tuesday in Hauppauge.

Suffolk legislators on Tuesday elected in a closed session vote to appeal a state Supreme Court judge's decision to block the county's worker status bill, but their decision is likely to draw another lawsuit.

Teenagers who died in car crashes across the state over the past year included, from top left, Michael Western, 17, of Smithtown; Daniel DiStefano, 17, of Nesconset; John Aruanno, 13, of Smithtown; Saul ...

Steven Heinz of Nesconset loves his Saturday piano lessons. At least his mother, Mary Lu Heinz, believes he does.

The WALK newsroom was busy this morning receiving calls from listeners island wide about the smell of a strange odor.

A Suffolk County jury Friday convicted a Miller Place man of second degree burglary after three days of jury deliberations.

Two different drivers, both driving without proper licenses and under the influence of alcohol, have left a veteran Nassau County Police Officer in "very serious condition" following an accident on the Long ...

Fran Diagostino, a Nesconset neighbor of Nassau Police Officer Kenneth Baribault, cried when she heard that he had been seriously injured in a car accident while on duty.

“Clearly job growth has slowed substantially; in fact it has almost come to a halt.”

The struggling Long Island job market declined to a two-year low in April, raising local economists' concerns about whether the region has fallen into a recession. via Newsday.com

VOTING 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Accompsett, Nesconset, Saint James and Smithtown elementary schools. via Newsday.com

Police activity in Nesconset has resulted in a road closure because of a large police scene. via WALK 97.5

“The indictment ... outlines a pattern of bribery and favor seeking in the Smithtown town building department”

Former Smithtown Chief Building Inspector Robert Bonerba surrenders to authorities. via New York Daily News

“What people have to do is turn to people they trust, as opposed to finding someone in the phone book,'”

Shelley Plock, 54, of Rockaway Park said she and her husband, William, used all their resources when he contracted Legionnaires' disease in 2004 and lymphoma of the spleen in 2005.

'He had to go through extensive chemotherapy and was able to work very little,' Plock said about her husband, who works in construction. They are now in debt, having resorted to credit cards. 'We needed to use them for things we needed,' she said.

Ann Mirto, 79, of Bethpage has accumulated $4,000 in credit card debt since her husband, Lenny, died in 2002. Mirto, whose only income is Social Security, a small pension from her husband and a few dollars from a part-time job, said, 'I'm getting rid of most of my credit cards, I'll only have one.' Read more