Woman's Drowning Death Prompts Launch Of Riptide Awareness Program
Their safety program slogan is "Beware the grip of the rip."
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Their safety program slogan is "Beware the grip of the rip."
Authorities said a 13-year-old girl was on her way home from Lawrence Road Middle School around 12:20 p.m. Tuesday when she noticed someone following her.
The bill, which passed unanimously, means there will be unprecedented monitoring, and a three-person panel will have veto power over superintendent selection and spending.
The New York state Senate passed unprecedented legislation Wednesday calling for intervention to help the struggling Hempstead School District, and now the Assembly will weigh in on the bill.
Votes could soon take place in Albany on unprecedented state intervention into the struggling Hempstead School District.
The bill has received a scathing reaction from the elected Hempstead board of education.
Supervisor Laura Gillen says Ana Maria Hurtado's contract with Alcott HR secured Hurtado a lucrative post-retirement job in violation of town and state ethics laws.
The incident happened around 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Sid Jacobsen Jewish Center in Greenvale.
The five second video posted on Snapchat was taken at an off-campus Hofstra University fraternity Saturday.
The suspect ran off, but the victim managed to call 911.
Top police officers in the Village of Hempstead were arrested today after prosecutors say they made tickets disappear in exchange for a promotion.
The public is demanding that school board member step down after admitting wrongdoing, and there is push back from his fellow leaders.
There was a guilty plea Thursday from a Hempstead police officer in a case that has implications for a struggling school system.
The victim's family tells CBS2 she had just taken the bus home from her home health aide job, and it was the one day a week her husband didn't pick her up.
The city expects to see 2 to 4 inches of accumulation, before the precipitation turns over to sleet and then heavy rain overnight.
Nassau County police say 51-year-old John Joseph Finnegan Jr. engaged in sexual contact with a 10-year-old girl and inappropriate behavior with at least two other female students.
Lawmakers on Long Island say funding cuts in the governor's budget came out of left field. They were not expecting to lose millions of dollars in money they say they have counted on from Albany for years.
Police say the Hempstead woman made up a story about a man jumping in front of her stroller, grabbing and throwing her boy to the pavement.
Nassau County police said a 24-year-old woman was walking with her 1-year-old son in a stroller around 7:15 p.m. Tuesday on Fulton Avenue in Hempstead. A man allegedly jumped in front of the stroller and grabbed the boy.
The ousted superintendent of schools claimed he was being punished for reporting to law enforcement his suspicions about corruption in the district.
A court decision to finally resolve what will happen to a South Shore country club that has polarized a Long Island community was rendered Thursday.
Joseph Larocca was last seen around 8 p.m. Sunday on Sheldon Place in Oceanside.
"I am pleased that there has been some progress, but it has to continue and it has to speed up," commissioner MaryEllen Elia said.
A report is out sizing up a long-struggling school district. The Hempstead district has been under the watch of a state monitor for over a year, and now that monitor has offered tempered optimism.
At least 8,600 children from Central America between the ages of 6 and 17 have made their way to Long Island in the past four years.
