Hempstead Opening Transitional School For Immigrant Students
About 1,200 new students enrolled in the system this year, and nearly three dozen others were allegedly turned away.
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About 1,200 new students enrolled in the system this year, and nearly three dozen others were allegedly turned away.
Many of the new students are immigrants. Some parents at a school board meeting Wednesday night called on surrounding districts to help absorb the overflow of students.
Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray said last year the town budgeted $2 million for snow removal, but spent more than $2.4 million. This winter, they're setting aside $2.8 million.
Class size is reaching the crisis level in the Hempstead Union Free School District, where teachers said they have been packed like sardines with more than 50 students in a classroom.
Araceli Mondragon-Vargas, 27, of Hempstead was arrested around 4:15 a.m. after failing to stay in her lane, police said. Officers pulled her over and determined she was intoxicated, police said.
Leah Cuevas was arraigned on indictment charges Thursday in Suffolk County District Court. She's being held without bail.
Chinelle Browne's family is demanding answers on where the woman was killed and dismembered, and if the woman charged in the crime, Leah Cuevas, had help.
Leah Cuevas, of Brooklyn, faced a judge Thursday. She is charged in the alleged killing and dismemberment of a woman whose body parts were found scattered around Long Island earlier this month.
A woman has been arrested and charged in the death of a Brooklyn woman, whose partially dismembered body was found on Long Island earlier this month.
Two Long Island couples have been arrested on bank fraud and conspiracy charges after allegedly short selling a foreclosure property to a Hempstead Catholic school, WCBS 880's Irene Cornell reported.
David Sadler, 45, of Hempstead, is accused of striking 17-year-old Terrance Grier in the neck with a machete, killing him.
The latest discovery was reported Thursday in Hempstead, where what appears to be a human head was found in bushes in front of a neatly kept home.
A human head was found in a Hempstead yard in the same area where two human arms were found just last week.
Police on Long Island are investigating after the discovery of body parts in three different locations.
Police are trying to determine if an arm found in the yard of a home in Hempstead is connected to the discovery of partially dismembered remains in Bay Shore.
Police on Long Island are investigating a report of a body part found in the yard of a home in Hempstead.
Shirley Cunningham guides pedestrians through a busy intersection with a little dance she said is inspired by a classic children's song always playing on her headset.
Grades for hundreds of Long Island high school students were never recorded, and the students have been left worried that the missing transcripts could cause problems as they prepare for college.
Police in Nassau County are looking for the gunman who killed a 16-year-old boy in Hempstead on Friday night.
Two men were shot and killed outside of a house on Belmont Parkway in Hempstead around 1 p.m. Monday.
Two people were shot and killed Monday afternoon in a residential neighborhood in Hempstead, police said.
Two men have been charged in connection with a stabbing that took place in Hempstead, last June.
The town has summoned employees from other departments to assist highway workers to repair the large number of craters that have popped up following a barrage of winter storms.
Starting on April 1, cars parked at the Merrick lot will have to display a resident parking sticker or face a fine of $120. The goal is to combat overcrowding at lots.
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.
