Richmond County News

Turns out, the forecasters under-forecast today's precipitation event. Around 5 p.m., snow began sticking to many roads on Staten Island -- most predictions called for a light snow shower and no accumulation.

We've been having a bunch of bank robberies around these parts. Can you help out? On November 4, the woman at left hit the Banco Popular Banco Popular located at Broadway and 145th Street.

With more Staten Islanders in need this Thanksgiving due to the recession and high unemployment, Borough Hall yesterday distributed a record 1,375 turkeys as part of its annual holiday food giveaway to 42 community food pantries.

An Eltingville man who robbed a string of Staten Island banks last year has been ordered to repay them more than $17,000. In addition, Ismael Flores, 35, was sentenced to 27 months behind bars.

Twenty-two people, including reputed members of organized crime families and a New York State court officer, were arrested on loan sharking and gambling charges in early-morning raids on Staten Island, the authorities said on Wednesday.

The arrests of 22 people on Staten Island stemming from investigations into mob-controlled loansharking and gambling has revealed connections to city and state officials, police and prosecutors said Wednesday.

A city Sanitation Department chief; his father-in-law, an alleged Gambino family soldier; the owner of the popular Staten Island supermarket chain, Top Tomato, long-suspected by locals of having mob ties; and a New York State Court Officer are among 22 people arrested today in an organized crime takedown on Staten Island.

Staten Islander Joseph Datello, 58, is placed into a waiting police vehicle outside the 120th Precinct stationhouse, St.

The American Red Cross will be holding its annual Staten Island Chrysanthemum Ball Friday, Nov.

Richmond County Savings Bank has started its 2009 Holiday Food Drive. This year's drive, to be held in partnership with the Salvation Army, will collect nonperishable food items to be used to stock the Salvation Army's food pantry and distributed to Staten Island residents in need during this holiday season.

Members of the American Legion of Richmond County pause to mark the moment that hostilities ended in World War I, "the war to end all wars." STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE/JAN SOMMA-HAMMEL Read the story This photo is part of the following galleries: 11-12 News Photo Gallery

Veterans hold American flags and banners for the various branches of the service, during a memorial ceremony last year at the World War I monument at Ocean View Cemetery.

News videos Entertainment videos HS sports videos Sports videos >> YOUR PHOTOS Latest user-submitted photos: UPLOAD HERE >> SEE MORE PHOTOS >> YOUR VIDEOS Share the videos you've shot - it's easy! Yankee Fun at the Ferry Hundreds of people making the best of a long crowded wait at the ferry terminal after the Yankee Parade.

One of the baddest of opera's bad girls - so rebellious that sometimes she even smokes cigarettes - will strut her defiant stuff Saturday in the Music Hall of the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden.

From pop rock to opera and country to alternative, the best of the best of Nova Scotia music will take centre stage this weekend in Yarmouth.

New Yorkers go to the polls today to choose a mayor and other officials. Polls open at 6 a.m. and close at 9 p.m. Today is Election Day in New York City.

Crime scene investigators peer in the open doorway of the Bulls Head shanty where 39-year-old Marion Hart was murdered.

Jessica Osorio, 9, gets her swine flu shot at PS 157 in Brooklyn. The city is now probing how two public school students, including one from Staten Island, were administered the vaccine without parental consent.

Well, it's now official. The buck stops here. There are deer playing at the three public courses on Staten Island as well as the Staten Island Golf Practice Center.

The luxury Sag Harbor condominium project known at 21 West Water has $1.7 million in liens filed against it by contractors and suppliers and as of press time has yet to renew its building permit with the Village of Sag Harbor, which will cost developers roughly $45,000. The waterfront condo project, which was approved over two years ago by the ...