Woodmere News

She was a match strike away from murder. A crazed Long Island woman doused her estranged husband's infant daughter and oceanfront home with lighter fluid in a twisted attempt to kill them and the three other people sleeping inside -- including her own son, cops said.

A jilted Long Island woman was arrested and charged after police say she broke into her estranged husband's waterfront mansion and attempted to start a fire.

A Woodmere woman was arrested early Wednesday on attempted murder charges after she broke into her estranged husband's Hewlett Bay Park house in the middle of the night and poured lighter fluid on the floor, police said.

Two men have been charged with the 1986 killing of a New York businessman. Samuel Quentzel, an owner of a Brooklyn plumbing, was fatally shot outside his Woodmere, Long Island, home in October 1986.

Two men who prosecutors say robbed and murdered a Woodmere man as he pulled into his driveway in 1986 were arraigned Wednesday morning, more than 20 years after the crime occurred.

A suspect in a Hewlett robbery was arrested early Tuesday within hours of the crime, Nassau police said.

WPCNR THE DEVELOPER NEWS. From North Street Community. April 2, 2009 UPDATED 12:30 A.M. E.D.T. April 3: North Street Community announced today that it has signed a joint venture agreement with The Engel Burman Group to develop an assisted living community at the former St.

The parents who packed the auditorium for the Lawrence board of education came to hear the decision on one controversial and long-awaited agenda item: which elementary school would be closed.

The flu has apparently caused the death of a second Long Island child this season, Nassau County health officials said Monday.

Slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk is being honored posthumously by a network of gay and lesbian organizations in his native New York.

Health officials said it appears that the flu has caused the death of a second Long Island child this season.

A 9-year-old Woodmere child who died Saturday most probably had the flu, according to the Nassau County Department of Health.

A blazing, out-of-control early-morning fire at a laundromat in north Lawrence Thursday morning has left two dead and three occupants of apartments above the burning structure are missing and unaccounted for, ...

Morris Talansky's role in a political corruption scandal may have resulted in the resignation of Israel's prime minister, but it has nothing to do with the charges he faces in Nassau County, a District Court ...

Harvey Milk was born on May 22, 1930, in Woodmere N.Y., a day that has become significant to LGBT members across the United States.

Harvey Milk , the first openly gay man to be elected to major public office, often said that he believed the path to acceptance for gay men and lesbians lay in each one coming out of the closet and living ...

More than two dozen tired soldiers returned home Saturday night from Afghanistan - to the waiting embrace of jubilant family members and relatives.

AP - The landlord of a Long Island storefront where a sports utility vehicle plowed into a Hanukkah party will not be fined.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) NEW YORK _ A speeding car on Thursday crashed through plate glass windows into a Woodmere, N.Y., storefront where dozens of children attended a Hanukkah festival, then plowed through ...

Nassau police are investigating a serious auto accident in which a vehicle struck a group of pedestrians at 2:47 p.m. in Woodmere.