Oakdale News

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.

" Until very recently, whatever troubles were about to beset the Hughes and Snyders of Midwest soap mecca Oakdale, the drama was largely confined to the indoors.

Every 10 days, according to law enforcement officials, Felix Cruz made a 92-mile round trip from Brooklyn to Suffolk County to hand 2 kilos of heroin over to Gilberto Rivera.

Two drug kingpins - one from Oakdale - are among 13 people arrested since last Saturday in connection with a narcotics ring that shipped large amounts of heroin from Queens to Suffolk for sale on the streets, authorities said.

All My Children: Correctly assuming that David will attempt to get custody of Little Adam, Adam took Erica's advice and fled the country with the child, leaving David furious.

Mar 13, 2009 9:38 am US/Eastern An Indian Hindu youth performs a fire breathing act as he takes a part in a procession in Amritsar on Feb.

A laid-back, above-the-fray style proved very effective in getting Barack Obama elected president.

OAKDALE Suffolk County Police Major Case Investigations Unit detectives are investigating two Washington Mutual bank robberies committed by the same person Wednesday.

Which was the most fevered lunge for self-promotion? 1) Assemb. Ginny Fields who, according to charges in a federal lawsuit, used her political influence to get a bus stop moved away from property she owns.

Assemb. Ginny Fields, who was cited in 2007 for illegally renting out two cottages in Oakdale , has not brought the rentals into compliance with town code, according to the Town of Islip.

Oakdale neighbors of Assemb. Ginny Fields have filed a lawsuit charging that she, her son William and tenants launched an intimidation campaign against them in a dispute over a school bus stop and cottages ...

When Laurel Hartman and her husband, Mark Stallsmith, moved back to Cape Cod to be closer to family, they didn't realize at first just how close they would become.

Jan 16, 2009 6:36 pm US/Eastern Reporting Jennifer McLogan OAKDALE, N.Y. CBS 2's Jennifer McLogan takes part in a flight simulation to learn about what it's like for a pilot in a water landing.

As a way to help unemployed alumni, the Queens school is cutting its tuition in half.