Roosevelt News

Eleanor and Franklin relax at home in Hyde Park, N.Y., in August 1933. She preferred her retreat at nearby Val-Kill. AP When Eleanor Roosevelt learned that her husband was going to run for President in 1932, she fell into a deep depression.

Heart Attack becomes less deadly in the United States as health care improves in the country, says a new study.

Marilyn Gomes spent three days in jail last year because she refused to tell a grand jury what she knew about her boyfriend's involvement in a killing.

A Rural Metro EMT accused of stealing money from an accident victim is under investigation for another reported incident.

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Bethpage Federal Credit Union is going where no other bank would dare to tread. The credit union has selected a formerly contaminated parcel of land on Nassau Road in Roosevelt to build its 21st Long Island branch, opening in an area that has been almost completely neglected by the rest of the banking community.

New York state is receiving a $26.7 billion piece of the stimulus from Washington.

NEW YORK, May 22 NY-union-conflict Overnight raid by HERE leadership imperils members' security , /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Workers and retirees who witnessed the invasion of their union offices by agents of former HERE President John Wilhelm issued the following statements today: "I came to MY building, the UNITE HERE offices on 275 7th avenue ...

Patti Blagojevich, wife of embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, departs their home in Chicago, Thurs.

Try to imagine being swept along in the happy crowd at the Pan American Exposition in September 1901.

Four men who got into a taxi in Freeport to get a lift to nearby Roosevelt instead took the cabbie's ride, police said Tuesday morning.

Police responding to a call of shots fired in Roosevelt early Wednesday evening saw seven males in the rear yard of a home - three of them in possession of four semi-automatic handguns and a revolver and another who had an open arrest warrant from South Carolina , authorities said.

A year-old murder at a Hempstead nightclub remains unsolved, and Nassau police are again asking for the public's help to solve it.

A Roosevelt man was arrested Tuesday and charged with stabbing his girlfriend in the head last week, sending her to the hospital where she received 1,000 stitches, Nassau police said.

The westbound Southern State Parkway was closed between Exit 21, Nassau Road, in Roosevelt, at Exit 20, Grand Avenue, in Baldwin, at about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday for a State Police investigation.

An off-duty New York City police officer and three other men were cleared Friday of criminal charges following an altercation outside a Long Island deli that some had claimed was racially motivated.

In a racially charged beating case in Roosevelt, a Nassau County grand jury has dismissed charges against the owner of a delicatessen and three workers there who were accused of attacking a black man outside the store.

A Roosevelt teenager was sentenced to a prison term of up to 10 years after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the shooting death of a rival gang member in a feud over a stolen cell phone, prosecutors said Thursday.

This is a rush transcript from "The Journal Editorial Report," April 11, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

Roosevelt athletic director John Ventura was a popular choice for Section 1 athletic administrator of the year.