L.I. Town Supervisor Calls Removal Due To Oversight 'Manmade Crisis'
Town Clerk Vincent Puleo has declared Smithtown Supervisor Patrick Vecchio's seat vacant, along with another town board member who failed to sign the oath.
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Town Clerk Vincent Puleo has declared Smithtown Supervisor Patrick Vecchio's seat vacant, along with another town board member who failed to sign the oath.
Some towns on Long Island have already blown their snow budgets and the season is only halfway over.
The town clerk has declared the office vacant because the state's longest-serving town supervisor failed to file his written oath of office within 30 days.
A panel of New York education policy makers is recommending protections for teachers whose students don't perform well on state assessments aligned with the new Common Core Learning Standards.
In New Hyde Park, shoveled sidewalks have been quickly covered with snow and ice after plows pass by. Meantime, residents in Elmont are demanding that businesses be held accountable for failing to shovel their sidewalks.
Brookhaven, Smithtown and Babylon have met or exceeded their snow removal budgets. Hempstead is about 60 percent through its snow removal funds.
Oneil Meade, 28, and Clive Meade, 41, were arrested after a guest at a party in their Hempstead home was wounded in the neck during an argument, police said.
A manager of a parking-attendant company has been charged with stealing $23,541 in tips from parking valets at a mall on Long Island.
Nicholas Giambalvo, 27, Max Schneider, 24, and Elizabeth Dono, 27, are responsible for stealing numerous bronze vases totaling $53,000 on Oct. 1 and 16 and Feb. 5 and 6, police said.
A donation jar for cancer research was stolen from the counter of a 7-Eleven in Lindenhurst, Long Island.
A 14-year-old girl is hospitalized in stable condition after she was mowed down by a hit-and-run driver and then accidentally struck by two other cars.
Experts have issued a warning about insurance fraud after a Long Island man was convicted of staging more than 30 fake car crashes.
The lawsuit alleges that members of the predominantly white Comsewogue High School football team assaulted and shouted racial slurs at the Amityville players during a game that ended in a violent brawl last November.
A teenager from Queens was charged Thursday with scrawling anti-Semitic graffiti on a Long Island Rail Road station in Cedarhurst at least eight different times.
Police said the four suspects were caught on cell phone video either watching the fight or laughing as the attack occurred.
