Roslyn Heights News

Nassau County unveiled a plan yesterday to end homelessness in the next 10 years, calling for more rental housing, better services for the mentally ill and veterans and comprehensive tracking of local poverty.

Daria Brinzevich, who graduated last month from Mineola High School, was her class valedictorian although she came to the United States from Latvia only five years ago and spoke little English.

The Town of North Hempstead had not received any complaints about a tree leaning precariously over I.U. Willets Road, on the border of Old Westbury and Roslyn Heights, before it fell Saturday, killing a ...

One person is dead after a tree fell on two cars on a Long Island roadway. Police say the tree fell on the cars, both Toyota sedans, killing a man in his 30's and damaging the second vehicle.

Jose Machicado was not one to arrive home late without calling first. A custodian at Long Island University 's C.W. Post Campus , Machicado was supposed to get off work at 3 p.m. Saturday, but by 6:30 p.m. his ...

A large tree toppled onto two cars Saturday afternoon on I.U. Willets Road at the border of the villages of Old Westbury and Roslyn Heights, near the Exit 30 ramp off the Northern State Parkway.

At its July 7 meeting, the Village of Roslyn Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing to hear cases by applicants seeking variances in village codes.

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Sixth Squad detectives report the details of a fatal vehicle accident involving Port Washington's Peggy Gallagher that occurred on Thursday, June 19 at 1:39 p.m. in Roslyn Heights.

A motorist from Port Washington died yesterday after she got out of her car and stepped in the path of a tractor trailer on the Long Island Expressway in Roslyn Heights, police said.

The weak dollar doesn't mean you have to substitute "Roman Holiday" for "National Lampoon's European Vacation." In Pictures : 10 ways to save on summer travel to Europe Though it's more difficult than ever to ...

Nine metro area companies are hoping their pitches for money struck gold with investors at the latest Long Island Capital Alliance forum.

A judge Friday denied a defense attorney's request to acquit a former North Hempstead building inspector or dismiss the case after the prosecution and defense rested.

A Nassau builder testified Monday that he paid a $700 bribe to the former North Hempstead deputy building commissioner to expedite building plans for the builder's Roslyn Heights home.

The Missouri State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution will host an old-fashioned Flag Day picnic on June 14 at Roslyn Heights, 821 Main St.

Prosecutors say a former New York City police officer has pleaded guilty to selling handguns that he stole from a police evidence room.

Prosecutors say Hubertus Vannes pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal sale of a firearm in Nassau County Court on Long Island.

Prosecutors say the Roslyn Heights resident also pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal possesion of a controlled substance after he admitted to buying the painkiller Vicodin illegally.

Vannes agreed to a 5-year prison sentence. Prosecutors say Vannes admitted to selling the handguns to a man who sold him the painkillers. Vannes was arrested with 76 tablets of Vicodin. Read more

“Rabbi Leora Kaye asked us to hold the ketubah at the corners and remember everything from the time we first met to the vows we had just taken. It was such an incredible moment.”

Yana Asatur and Gregg Hirschorn shared their first dance to Van Morrison's "Someone Like You." They were in seventh grade. via New York Post

“As customers lose their confidence, they spend less”

Dealer Sam Novel said used-car buyers face tougher loan process. Slow economies have historically meant big business at used-car lots. via NY Daily News

“Yes, the kids are the wave of the future - our future”

Cultural Arts Playhouse opened its new theater in Plainview this week in a space that's about one-third the size of its former home in Old Bethpage. via Newsday.com

“I believe that, having heard the evidence, a jury would have found the exact same way”

In most criminal cases, it's a move defense attorneys don't even consider -- waiving the constitutional right to a jury and putting their client's fate in the hands of a judge. via Newsday.com