Medford News

State officials monitoring the Patchogue-Medford school system's finances have OKd district plans to submit a $155.7 million budget to voters next month. via Newsday.com

Reports from county or village police, March 23-29. Lake Grove A car was damaged by vandals March 23 on McGaw Avenue. via Newsday.com

Five people were injured after a driver collided with a school minibus, setting off a chain reaction crash on the rain-slicked Long Island Expressway. via New York Daily News

Three people were rescued from the waters of the Long Island Sound after their canoe overturned Sunday evening off a Stony Brook beach, the Suffolk police said. via AMNY

“If it is determined that this victim was struck intentionally Suffolk County will prosecute the perpetrator to the fullest extent of all applicable laws”

The Suffolk County police hate crimes unit is investigating a hit-and-run crash that injured a day laborer Sunday in Farmingville, officials said. via Newsday.com

Photo caption U.S. Navy Captain Linda L. Otis performs a dental exam on Staff Sgt. via Dental Economics

“As I got older, I became more knowledgable about it. ... You have to test your blood sugar often and eat all the right things.”

"American Idol" alum Kevin Covais, the teen balladeer from Levittown, performed for about 700 students at Tremont Elementary School in Medford Tuesday, in a concert that rewarded the children for helping to ... via Newsday.com

A Long Island woman who was riding in a car, when it was involved in a two-car crash in Middle Island has died from her injuries. via WINS-AM New York

“I think it's a good thing so people know we're being proactive.”

A Central Islip middle school student hospitalized this week with bacterial meningitis is improving and expected to recover, school and Suffolk County health officials said Friday. via Newsday.com

“As the Lord said, 'Pray for thy enemy,' and he became our enemy when he got behind the wheel of that SUV on Tuesday morning”

The father of three of the girls who were seriously injured in Medford when an unlicensed driver on drugs struck their car said he is praying for the man who police said sent his daughters to the hospital and ... via Newsday.com

Three days after a man driving while on drugs in Medford crashed into a car full of children, a 14-year-old girl died Friday afternoon, Suffolk police said. via Newsday.com

A Tuesday afternoon accident at the intersection of Woodside Avenue and County Road 101 in Medford has left 10 people recovering from injuries at area hospitals. via WALK 97.5

Let the patient beware. Going outside your insurer's network of preferred doctors or hospitals could be even more hazardous to your financial health than you suspected. via New York Times

“She yelled, 'She stole my pocketbook!'”

Supermarket aisles were the hunting ground for a prolific purse snatcher who preyed on distracted shoppers, cops said Monday. via New York Daily News

Alert staffers preparing interactive primary-result maps and charts for newsday.com noted several quirks. via Inside Long Island Politics

“These three people didn't know each other”

An 8-year-old died Thursday of what appeared to be meningitis, less than 24 hours after showing symptoms of the disease, Suffolk County public officials said. via Newsday.com

“They won't do that because it will actually affect the Suffolk County residents and there would be hell to pay”

Freshman Legis. Brian Beedenbender, a close ally and protege of Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, will announce a proposal Thursday to require all 15,000 licensed contractors in the county to prove their ... via Newsday.com

A Medford man, angry with a teen who lived next door, broke into the boy's house in the middle of the night and beat him with an aluminum bat and a metal shovel handle, Suffolk police said. via Newsday.com

“It was more profitable, but only because we cut expenses, mainly payroll”

Operators Peer Into Crystal Ball for 2008 by Garrett McKinnon Weathermen. Politicians. Sports pundits. via NOLN

“I have a bet with my partner about who will get stung first, but it's been three years, and I'm still waiting.”

Like anything, fishkeeping has its levels of connoisseurship. With their first setups, newbies invariably acquire platies and mollies and neons - the peanut butter and jelly of the hobby. via The Clarion-Ledger