Wantagh News

With heroin-related arrests in the Massapequa area among the highest in all of Nassau County, local residents are banding together to raise community awareness of the growing problem.

On Saturday, pieces of a Wantagh State Parkway overpass showered down onto the Southern State Parkway.

Southampton Village Police charged the following with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a misdemeanor, in the past week: Henry S. Kozen, Jr., 41, of Mattituck; Gene Kagan, 35, of Los Angeles, California; Lawrence Goodelman, 53, of Wantagh; Martin Espinosa-Alvares, 43, of Southampton; Darrell J. Simmons, Jr., 20, of ...

Massive concrete blocks knocked loose from an overpass have rained down on a suburban New York parkway, causing nearly a dozen cars to pile up and snarling traffic for hours.

Falling debris from a barrier wall has led to multiple car crashes on a suburban New York parkway in Wantagh.

An accident sent chunks of the Wantagh State Parkway overpass raining down on the westbound Southern State Parkway, State Police said.

Governor David Paterson recently announced that a guard rail will be installed along the entire length of the Wantagh State Parkway bike path, which runs from Jones Beach State Park to Cedar Creek Park along the Wantagh Parkway and is utilized by thousands of residents weekly who like to walk, jog, bike, and rollerblade.

Long Island , the state's former education commissioner, Richard Mills, would typically stop off at a struggling school district with a mostly black and Hispanic enrollment to publicly promote his campaign for higher test scores and lower dropout rates.

Nassau County homeowners complained they were being asked to vote on school budgets without being provided a clear picture of the tax impact.

In the first incident, at 12:50 a.m., officers on routine patrol in Uniondale saw a red Volkswagen near a Delta Gas Station at 510 Uniondale Ave.

Hicksville: Ed Mangano waits at his campaign headquarters as the race for Nassau County Executive is still to close to call on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 in Hicksvile, New York.

Ed Mangano sits in his campaign headquarters in Hicksville as the race for Nassau County Executive is still to close to call on Wednesday.

Justice Elizabeth Emerson Two Republican judges appeared poised last night to win a pair of contested seats on the State Supreme Court in Nassau , while the cross-endorsed candidates appeared headed for victory.

But local residents and park activists aren't convinced. More than 100 of them attended a save-our-park rally yesterday morning - a month after the county issued a statement saying it had pulled the project.

The 15th Legislative District encompasses the communities of Island Trees, Levittown, Wantagh and portions of Seaford.

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced that an Islip Terrace man has been convicted of manslaughter and other charges after he crashedA his car into several trees off the Wantagh Parkway in September 2008, killing his girlfriend, 59-year-old Mary McInerney of Hicksville.

The $10-million deal, which allows Nassau to avoid certain state bidding requirements, has become an issue in the county's closest legislative race, between Democratic incumbent Joseph Scannell and Republican challenger Chris Browne.

Written by Timothy Bolger on Oct 27th, 2009 and filed under Featured , Long Island News , News .

A jury convicted Michael Bauer, 53, of second-degree manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, two counts of driving while intoxicated, and one count each of reckless endangerment and reckless driving, prosecutors said Friday.

Written by Christopher Twarowski on Oct 22nd, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .