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People light candles and attend a vigil for Marcelo Lucero who was killed at this location in Patchogue, N.Y. one year ago.

In a Nov. 7 story about the racial issues in a New York community a year after the stabbing death of an Ecuadorean immigrant, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of one of the defendants charged in the immigrant's death.

UPDATES with vigil to mark 1-year anniversary; Will be UPDATED. AP Photo NYR101 PATCHOGUE, N.Y. Dozens of people are holding a candleligh4 vigil on Long Island to mark the one-year anniversary of the stabbing death of Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero.

Share + Nov 7, 2009 7:26 pm US/Eastern PATCHOGUE, N.Y. Dozens of people are holding a candlelight vigil on Long Island to mark the one-year anniversary of the stabbing death of Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero.

In this file photo of Jan. 28, 2009, Nicholas Hausch appears in court in Riverhead, N.Y. where he and six other Long Island teenagers are accused in the stabbing death of Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero.

The statea s Housing Finance Agency has just approved $11.7 million in financing for the Artspace live/work housing project in Patchogue.

Nearly a year since the murder of Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero, one of the seven young people accused in his death admitted his guilt in court.

Called "Running Wild - Hate and Immigration on Long Island ," the film is built around the killing of Marcelo Lucero , 38, in what police called an ethnic hate crime attack.

One of seven teenagers accused in the fatal attack on a Hispanic immigrant pleaded guilty Thursday to gang assault and hate crime charges and agreed to testify against the other defendants.

Police say Marcelo Lucero was killed during an attack in Patchogue because of his ethnicity.

Keith Bishop of Medford , the Green Beret who was killed along with six other soldiers on Oct.

Over the past year, he has turned 18, earned his GED and dreamed about moving to California and going to college.

In a Newsday interview, Jose Pacheco, who turned 18 in the Suffolk County Jail, also expressed condolences to the family of Marcelo Lucero .

Jeffrey Conroy, 17, right, is led out of Fifth Precinct in Patchogue with six other suspects for arraignment in Central Islip.

SOON after Marcelo Lucero , an Ecuadorean immigrant, was stabbed to death in Patchogue last year, James Garcia Sotomayor, a filmmaker who lives in nearby Brentwood, got a worried phone call from his mother, who lives in his native Ecuador.

A former Patchogue resident plead not guilty today in Suffolk first district court to charges he stabbed a Ronkonkoma man during a burglary last month.

Written by Timothy Bolger on Oct 29th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

Keith Bishop, a Green Beret from Medford, was among the 10 Americans killed Monday when their helicopter crashed in western Afghanistan after a firefight with Taliban fighters.

Brookhaven 's town board voted last night to condemn the East Main Street theater and replace it with a new business.