Woodmere News

Written by Patrick Kelton on Dec 2nd, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

ROSE GILL HEARN, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation , announced today the arrest of JAMES CHENG, a former Chief Plan Examiner with the City Department of Buildings , on charges of accepting cash payments from SUNG HO SHIN, a New York State Registered Architect, in exchange for reviewing building plans prior to the plans ...

Written by Associated Press on Nov 29th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

Alona Sulman, 32, of Wood Street left the 2 1/2-year-old girl in the car for at least 30 minutes while she shopped at the Valley Stream store, police said.

When the woman told them "I don't have a safe," Nassau County police said the armed duo ransacked the house and stole a laptop computer, jewelry, credit cards and cash.

Written by Timothy Bolger on Nov 23rd, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

CELESTE HADRICK AND JAMES T. MADORE. celeste.hadrick@newsday.com ,, james.madore@newsday.com Photo credit: Photo by Howard Schnapp A proposal by Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi for the executive to control school districts was dismissed out of hand by superintendents and local politicians Saturday.

Joseph Juliano voluntarily surrendered and was arraigned in White Plains federal court on a two-count Indictment charging him with embezzling more than $600,000 from his former employer, Pepsi Cola North America .

To launch the event, Tinkelman met last spring with schools Superintendent Les Omotani, who gave Tinkelman approval to move ahead with his idea: a music and art festival.

Police said that a 20-year-old man was assaulted and robbed of cash and a BlackBerry about 12:15 a.m. as he sat in his parked 2009 Toyota on Wahl Avenue.

Local filmmaker Michael Schwarz spent many years wondering if he'd ever find a way to make the documentary "The Botany of Desire." Potential donors were wary about one of the four plants - marijuana - featured in the film, and he was repeatedly turned down for funding.

One of several subjects are escorted by the FBI from 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan on Thursday.

The public is invited to the League of Women Voters' candidates forum on Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. at the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library, 1125 Broadway, Hewlett.

A Woodmere dentist is charged with writing and filling bogus painkiller prescriptions using names of former patients and friends to fuel his own addiction.

When Dr. Morton B. Albert learned a few years ago that his office was to be closed and that he had lymphoma, he entered a period of unexpected events that tested his inner being.

Harry Russell, a member of the Woodmere Country Club, is part of a shrinking population of private golf club members in the Five Towns.

Staff reportsJerry Courville Jr. and James Romaniello came up short on the opening day of the 13th MGA Senior Open Championship ar The Woodmere Club in Woodmere, N.Y.Both of the Shorehaven golfers missed the cut -- Courville by a single stroke and Romaniello by two.Mike Caporale, head professional .

Orientation for seventh-graders entering Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School this year will be held on Thursday, September 3, starting at 9:45 a.m. at the school, which is located on Moriches-Middle Island Road in Manorville.

When 28-year-old Nathan Manske was laid off from his job at a large New York advertising firm, he devoted his time to I'mFromDriftwood.com, where gay men and women can remind America that we're everywhere.

Explaining the toxicology report A A During the trial, the defense argued that there was another reason for the high blood alcohol content found in 11-year-old Alan's body.