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A body lies under a yellow tarp near a pillar of the Locust Avenue overpass on Sunrise Highway in Oakdale.

A body lies under a yellow tarp near a pillar of the Locust Avenue overpass on Sunrise Highway in Oakdale.

Share + Sep 18, 2009 8:47 pm US/Eastern Reporting Lou Young OAKDALE, N.Y. 1 of 1 Despite serving just four years of a 25-years-to-life term for murder, Gregory Felder may be granted a compassionate release from prison because he is ill.

State Assemblywoman Ginny Fields [D-Oakdale], Islip Town Supervisor Phil Nolan and Fire Island National Seashore [FINS] Superintendent Chris Soller were among those who attended the Fire Island Association's [FIA] annual summer meeting at Whyte Hall in the Fire Island Pines on July 18.

The second quarter's jump in labor productivity is both good news and bad news. First the good news: increased efficiency benefits both business and labor.

Late blight stem lesions on a tomato plant. If you're growing tomatoes, potatoes or nightshade this year, be on the lookout for late blight disease -- a fungus that causes white-mold encircled gray spots on leaves, blackened stems, wilting and death.

Trish Bergin, part-time News 12 anchorwoman and former Billy Joel girlfriend, will run for Islip Town board as a Republican candidate, said town GOP chairman Frank Tantone Friday.

While severe economic pressures can result in budget cutbacks and personnel layoffs, these changes fail to produce the organisational, process or product improvements that are necessary for gaining a competitive advantage.