Nassau Comptroller Announces Budget Surplus
County Comptroller George Maragos said Nassau will end its 2012 fiscal year with a $41.6 million budget surplus.
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County Comptroller George Maragos said Nassau will end its 2012 fiscal year with a $41.6 million budget surplus.
According to court papers filed by the family's lawyer, the pending suit alleges "wrongful death, civil rights and negligence actions against the County of Nassau and its police officers and possibly other defendants to be named after discovery," reported Newsday.
Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano and other officials cut the ribbon on Monday and Tuesday was the first morning drive for it since Sandy.
Forecasters say the remains from Andrea will approach from the south, bringing heavy rain to the state on Friday. The rain could produce small stream and urban flooding.
Last month, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice was the first in the state to put the policy into effect and now she is leading the fight for the passage of a state law.
Nassau County police are investigating the deaths of two people on Long Island.
Backpacks, coolers, luggage and large bags are banned from going beyond the parking lot of the race track.
A 22-year-old Long Island man has been charged with stabbing and wounding another man during a game of beer pong in the suspect's garage.
Two people are attempting serious charges in connection with an alleged February assault in Nassau County.
The announcement reported Thursday by Newsday comes a year after a fatal boat accident involving spectators at the annual celebration.
Alfred Balcerak, 54, was charged with first-degree sexual abuse, Nassau County police said.
The woman known as the "Hot Dog Hooker" pleaded not guilty to new charges in court Saturday, and accused authorities of framing her.
A 35-year-old man driving a Mercedes was stopped at a traffic light when five armed men, four with handguns and one with a shotgun, pulled him out of the car, police said.
As many as 2,000 people have already signed the petition to increase security. This comes in the wake of a home invasion that ended with 21-year-old student Andrea Rebello being shot dead by a police officer.
Worshippers exchanged hugs Wednesday as they arrived for Andrea Rebello's funeral at St. Teresa of Avila Church in Sleepy Hollow.
While critics have questioned the actions of the Nassau County police officer who accidentally killed a 21-year-old Hofstra University student, police union officials have called him "a great cop who did the right thing."
John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor Michele Galietta said the officer was confronted with a split-second choice when a masked man holding 21-year-old Hofstra University student Andrea Rebello in a headlock pointed a loaded handgun at him.
Nassau County Deputy Inspector Kenneth Lack said a man with a ski mask forced his way into the house at 213 California Ave. in Uniondale at 2:30 a.m. Three females and one male were in the house.
A proposal to build a major Long Island casino with video slot machines is part of closed-door negotiations to expand casino gambling in New York, according to the head of the Nassau County Off-Track Betting Corp. and a legislative bill.
The probe will look into how Sandy contracts were awarded and how contractors performed.
Once inside the man brandished a black handgun and ordered the manager to empty the contents of the store's safe into a black duffel bag before fleeing the scene.
The team's playoff home games have generated more than $1 million each in economic activity for the county.
The insurance plans do not consider basements to be living spaces, so the residents have not gotten a penny of insurance money for the flood damage they sustained.
Democrat Adam Haber proposes naming a "disaster czar" to handle a county-wide emergency management and information system that he says would give Nassau County the response it did not get after Sandy.
Nassau County, Long Island, has decided to quit using condoms as evidence in prostitution cases.
