Police: Pedestrian Killed In L.I. Hit-And-Run
Reinaldo Velasquez-Yanes, 25, was crossing New York Avenue when he was hit by car heading south on New York Avenue, police said.
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Reinaldo Velasquez-Yanes, 25, was crossing New York Avenue when he was hit by car heading south on New York Avenue, police said.
Officer Anthony DiLeonardo beat, shot and wounded cabbie Thomas Moroughan in Huntington Station two years ago during a roadside dispute, according to an internal affairs investigation.
A 3-year-old girl suffered a lacerated finger, an 11-year-old girl suffered a minor head injury, and 6-year-old boy was hospitalized with a serious head injury, authorities said.
According to prosecutors, Nicole Grammerstorf had her 5-month-old child in the Nissan SUV at the time of the crash. Prosecutors said she then tried to cover up the crash by taking the car to Mark Monserrat's auto body shop.
Police Sunday night were searching for a man who walked into a 7-Eleven store in Suffolk County and smashed a Lotto machine with his bare fist.
In the village of Hempstead, Mayor Wayne Hall told WCBS reporter Sophia Hall that if people hear gunshots, because of fear, they will likely not come forward.
School officials said the well-liked student was in a third-floor classroom of the science wing and appeared to have jumped through a window. The district superintendent said it happened as classes were changing.
The 47-year-old victim was riding his bike on New York Avenue in Huntington Station when he was struck near Pulaski Road around 4:40 a.m. on Aug. 25, police said.
The town has had to replace about 20 of the cast-iron covers at $400 a piece in the past two months.
Geremias Caceres was shot to death in front of his Huntington Station home over two years ago. Now his family is struggling to hold on to the house.
Officers went to Pure Pleasure on East Jericho Turnpike after receiving several complaints from the community about alleged illegal material at the store.
A woman walked into the store, picked up a white Bichon Frise puppy that was in an open pen, put it in her purse and took off, police said.
They allegedly wore masks and brandished handguns and knives. On Monday, charges were levied in a string of violent armed robberies on Long Island. Homeowners and store owners said there is relief now that five people have been put behind bars.
Investigators say 25-year-old Aaron Tarkin of Huntington Station was stopped while taking a friend's two children, ages 8 and 5, to lunch.
Suffolk County police today arrested a Massapequa woman after she left her 18-month-old daughter in her vehicle while she went into a Huntington Station store.
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced his plan to combat gang violence today. The first step is dismantling a gang task force located at police headquarters.
New York Health Commissioner Nirav Shah says 12 decorative metal tissue boxes contaminated with radioactive material have been removed from four Bed, Bath and Beyond stores in the state.
Suffolk County police say Cesar Gudiel was struck and killed while walking along New York Avenue near East 21st Street in Huntington Station at 7:35 p.m. on Sunday.
There was gunfire on Long Island this morning, but it was just a test.
A pedestrian was killed early Sunday morning in an accident in Huntington Station on Long Island, police said.
The march began at an apartment complex on East 9th Street in Huntington Station where three young men were shot and injured last weekend.
The shot spotter system cost over $500,000 to be installed in Huntington Station and four other communities within Suffolk County.
The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said Sunday that Kenneth Wallace of Huntington Station, N.Y., was pronounced dead Saturday night.
Police say 23-year-old Samantha Deutsch slipped out of her handcuffs and fled out a side door at the Second Precinct Tuesday night while being held for disorderly conduct, vehicle and traffic warrants, and criminal impersonation.
Authorities said the boy was at a friend's swimming pool on Clinton Avenue in Huntington Station around 12:30 p.m. when he went underwater and didn't come back up.
