South-Ozone-Park News

Three workers -- including a father and son -- were killed yesterday in a horrific accident at a Queens recycling plant when they fell into a sludge vat filled with toxic fumes, officials said.

A CITY COUNCIL race in southeastern Queens is turning into an old-fashioned political street fight.

A father and son were killed Monday afternoon along with another man who was working with them after they all fell into a well containing toxic gas at a Jamaica recycling plant, authorities said.

Three workers at a waste transfer station in Queens were overcome by toxic fumes Monday afternoon and died, apparently falling one after another into the Stygian gloom of a putrid, manhole-size, 18-foot-deep well they were trying to vacuum, fire officials said.

Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio handed a letter of resignation to Speaker Sheldon Silver on Tuesday, then pleaded guilty to influence peddling on Wednesday, ending a 16-term state Assembly career.

Mayor Mike Bloomberg came to Queens last week to announce a new ad campaign encouraging homeowners to seek help, should they be facing foreclosure.

Brooklyn, NY 11208 [definitely not Guyana!!] 718.235.8088 Wednesday, June 17th 2009 4:00pm-10:00pm Kirtans and Viewing Grace Funeral Home Thursday, June 18th 2009 Pooja & Final Rituals 8:30am 11:00 am Grace Funeral Home Thence to His residence at 133-11 120th Street, South Ozone Park 86-06 101 Avenue Thence to the St.

After several viewings at the Grace Funeral Home in Brooklyn, New York the body of Sri Prakash Gossai will be cremated tomorrow afternoon.

Brooklyn : I worked at the Statue of Liberty for more than 27 years. I want to thank the Daily News for sponsoring an essay contest to pick five New York City students who will be among the first to visit the Statue of Liberty's newly reopened crown on July 4, . The News featured me and my work at the statue, in my first writeup ever, back on Sept.

The victim, whose name and age weren't immediately released, was found with a single gunshot to the head on the first floor of the 15th Avenue building near 75th Street around 10:30 p.m., officials said.

Brooklyn : What is Dick Cheney up to? So many died on his watch - children, old people, troops.

Concerned parents rally to close the PS 96 on Rockaway Blvd. in Queens. More than 80 of the school's approximately 300 students are out sick, as well as the school's nurse.

Four more private schools closed yesterday, two public schools and a charter school will shut today, hundreds of inmates were quarantined, and hospital emergency rooms were flooded as near-panic over swine flu swept through the Big Apple.

Randi Weingarten speaks about parents' need more information on the criteria for swine flu school closings.

See NY1's full list of the city's flu-related closings. Of the 28 schools that are now closed, only I.S. 238 in Hollis, Queens has currently diagnosed cases of H1N1, otherwise known as swine flu.

The man was dressed like an officer of the law, so Shanai Woodard did as she was told.

A non-citizen who tried to obtain a U.S. passport at the National Passport Center in Portsmouth pleaded guilty late Friday to passport fraud.

Results are in - and Queens parents are pleased. More than three-quarters of the borough's students passed January's state reading tests - up 11 percentage points from 2008, according to recently released statistics.

Christopher Dela-Rosa had been riding a bike along West 142nd Street near Lenox Avenue shortly after 6 p.m. Friday when he was struck by a late-model Lincoln SUV.

More than five months after a Wal-Mart seasonal worker was crushed to death by a throng of bargain-hungry shoppers, the worker's family and the then-pregnant mother who credits him with protecting her womb in the melee all say that Wednesday's government settlement does little to ease their pain - and would do nothing to end their own lawsuits.