New Cassel News

Eva Torres wept in court Tuesday as the man who stabbed her mother to death apologized in Mineola for the pain he caused her.

Nassau police should have done more and should have done it sooner to protect a New Cassel woman whose ex-boyfriend was threatening to kill her -- and then did -- her family's attorney argued Thursday in ...

A woman, angry at seeing her ex-boyfriend with another woman, was arrested after she threw a knife at him and cut him on the abdomen on a New Cassel street corner, Nassau police said Tuesday.

A woman was found dead in a vacant New Cassel house Tuesday, Nassau police said, with a man saying his cousin confessed the crime to him.

Nassau police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found Tuesday in a vacant New Cassel house.

A 25-page report issued last week by the Nassau County Commissioner of Investigations has determined that Nassau County Department of Child Protective Services caseworkers and supervisors made several errors in ...

Jurors found a New Cassel man guilty Tuesday of murdering his wife after she admitted to having an affair with another man and told him that he had a small penis.

Jose Toxtle was the first one to admit he killed his wife, breathlessly calling police after he stabbed her eight times last December to tell them what happened.

A man charged with stabbing his wife to death with a knife after she said she was having an affair -- and that his penis was too small -- went on trial for murder Wednesday in Nassau County.

The Nassau County Commissioner of Investigations, in a report to be released Saturday, lambasted the work of Child Protective Services caseworkers investigating an abuse complaint against a New Cassel mother ...

Two men have been charged with a string of robberies spanning more than two weeks in Westbury and New Cassel, Nassau police said.

A Westbury man faces robbery and assault charges Tuesday after he slashed another man's neck with a drywall knife and stole $20 from the victim, the Nassau police said. via Newsday.com

A court filing shows that a Long Island woman accused of drowning her three children in a bathtub is expected to use an insanity defense at her trial.

The legal document was filed in Nassau County Court by the woman's attorney, Michelle Armstrong.

Police say Leatrice Brewer drowned her children then laid them in a row on her bed in their pajamas before calling 911 and confessing to the killings. The children were 5, 6 and 18 months old.

The 27-year-old New Cassel woman is charged with one count of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder. Read more

“She said some woman on BET was talking about her and the kids”

The New Cassel woman charged with drowning her three children in a bathtub will defend herself by saying she was insane at the time of the killings, according to a legal document her attorney filed in Nassau ... via Newsday.com

First the Nassau police arrested an Amityville man on an assault charge early Thursday morning. via Newsday.com

The four attackers, one of them a juvenile, surrounded a 25-year-old man on a street in New Cassel, displayed a gun, displayed a knife, punched him in the head -- and stole his gold chain and money, police ... via Newsday.com

“Parents should never have to bury their children.”

By Victoria A. Caruso The father of the two siblings killed in February, allegedly by their New Cassel mother, moved forward with a lawsuit against Nassau County, its executive and several agencies. via Westbury Times

“They were looking for every nickel that wasn't nailed down and that money was too tempting for them to resist”

State lawmakers are poised to cut most of the funding for a popular program that has helped struggling communities like Wyandanch, New Cassel and Huntington Station assess environmentally damaged areas and ... via Newsday.com

A New Cassel man was arrested and charged with stabbing another man after a verbal altercation, police said yesterday. via Newsday.com

Four Westbury men were arrested after what police described as a melee in broad daylight in New Cassel on Friday that resulted in a man being hospitalized, Nassau County police said yesterday. via Newsday.com