Uniondale News

"I don't think I'm looking to be the savior. I'm just one player of many, part of a team and an organization to bring a winning tradition back here." -- John Tavares UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- John Tavares says his goal as a New York Islander is to ... Link http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=436558 You must login at the top of the page to comment.

To celebrate, we're giving away tickets and tons of other cool swag! The Warped Tour hits the Nassau Coliseum Parking Lots in Uniondale, NY on Saturday, July 18th and we've got a bunch of tickets to giveaway.

While reading Newsday's LI Life special section on the Vietnam War, part of the paper's Summer of '69 coverage, Kenneth Thompson of Huntington saw a photograph of former Uniondale resident Richard Perricone, who spoke of being a prisoner of war in Cambodia.

A South Carolina man was arrested Sunday night in Uniondale after plainclothes police officers saw him take a handgun from his waistband and hide it under the seat of a parked car, police said.

Six Army reservists shown in graphic photos mistreating and humiliating Iraqi prisoners at a sprawling prison west of Baghdad are assigned to the 372nd Military Police Company based in Cumberland, family members and officials said last night.

Karen O'Callaghan is the highest ranking female in the history of the Nassau police force.

Back in 2006, The Community Alliance first broached the subject, on this very blog, of a "fix" for the decline of Hempstead Town's most infamous thoroughfare, Hempstead Turnpike -- Long Island's "Twenty Miles of Ugly." Well, here we are, four years down the road, literally, and but for minor stretches of designated "streetscaping" -- where often ...

Two brothers were arrested in connection with the shooting of a teenager in Uniondale Friday, police said.

Employed as a help desk technician at a data processing firm, Garren Pollydore altered batch data and added credit to prepaid credit cards he had purchased, police said.

The young man in the picture stood alone outside the Theodore Roosevelt Building in Mineola Thursday evening, waving a placard at passing motorists to show his support for the Lighthouse project in Uniondale, where he lives.

Two gunmen robbed a Domino's Pizza deliveryman in Uniondale, stealing his wallet, including cash and personal papers, police said.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is probing more than a dozen loan-modification firms over fees they charge homeowners, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Trusted on Main Street. That's Kate Murray's credo, as she gears up -- Town Clowns and GOP goons in tow -- for another run for Town of Hempstead Supervisor .

Uniondale, N.Y.-based Arbor Commercial Funding LLC, a subsidiary of Arbor Commercial Mortgage , recently placed funding for a $2.8 million Fannie Mae loan for the 32-unit River Street Apartments complex in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood.

Uniondale Authorities are pondering if there is a lesson to be learned after an effort to prevent year-end pranks resulted in massive truancy at Uniondale High School.

The Joint Commission has not made its visit. But NUMC has maintained its vigilance.

Robert and Arlene Zafran of Bensalem, and Richard and Paula Hirt of Dix Hills, N.Y., announce the engagement of their children, Kimberly Nicole Zafran and Jonathan David Hirt.

Prom night in New Rochelle, N.Y. The prom - that annual rite of American teenagers - is annually analyzed, lionized, bemoaned and mocked.

The first legal papers seeking to deal with the estate of Betty Ann Parente, who was killed along with her two daughters by her husband, William Parente, before he killed himself last month outside Baltimore, illustrate some of the complicated issues the courts have to resolve in such cases.

On May 15, 2009, I attended a breathtaking concert event with IL Divo at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale N.Y. IL Divo are an operatic pop quartet, introduced to the world in 2004 by Simon Cowell.