Beefed Up Security Put Into Place For Long Island Marathon
Bomb-sniffing dogs and state troopers are on hand. There are officers on horseback and motorcycle along the route and police helicopters are also keeping an eye on things from the sky.
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Bomb-sniffing dogs and state troopers are on hand. There are officers on horseback and motorcycle along the route and police helicopters are also keeping an eye on things from the sky.
Hundreds of runners took off at the sound of the horn Saturday morning for the 5K run – part of the Long Island Marathon weekend.
The rapper and music mogul attended a meeting Thursday on Long Island, where the media was briefed on four proposals to renovate the arena and surrounding property.
William Hotz is charged with robbery and resisting Arrest.
Pamela Efraimov, 39, walked out of court in Hempstead Tuesday without having to post bail. She is accused of stealing more than $200,000 and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
There have been at least four incidents in which middle school students were followed or approached by strangers in Merrick and Bellmore, officials said.
Christopher Capurso, 22, was not licensed to own a tow truck and was holding cars hostage, according to investigators.
An unlicensed tow truck driver stood accused this weekend of illegally towing cars on Long Island.
Police in Nassau County have increased patrols and heightened security in Merrick, after an alarming number of stranger danger incidents.
The Nassau County District Attorney's office is now reviewing the accusations against a Long Island caterer after a waterfront venue was shut down without notice.
Police say they are on the look out for two teenagers who broke into a cemetery in Uniondale and caused damage Monday night.
The first batch is going in Tuesday along Searingtown Road and Shelter Rock Road in North Hills where hundreds of trees were downed and destroyed.
A New York man enjoying his morning cup of coffee Friday stumbled upon four alligators near a Long Island boat ramp.
A 20-year-old high school student was charged Wednesday evening with stabbing a fellow student in a school lunchroom on Long Island.
A jury found Lloyd Williams guilty, handing down a rare depraved indifference murder conviction for a fatal DWI crash in Nassau County in June 2011.
Many who cherish the annual flowering trees along the North Shore have voiced their suspicions that the trees were needlessly axed.
New Yorkers are on high alert, reporting more than 135 suspicious packages to the NYPD since the Boston bombings on Monday.
Dozens of state and county officials as well as race organizers met for about an hour Wednesday on how to improve safety measures.
The plan to merge police precincts was intended to save Nassau County $20 million, but the PBA said all it has done is increase major crimes.
A Long Island physical education teacher was released without bail Saturday, on charges that he watched porn during school hours and got caught by four students.
James Ryan, 26, was arraigned Wednesday on new charges including aggravated vehicular homicide, manslaughter, aggravated vehicular assault, criminally negligent homicide and driving while intoxicated, among others.
Painful and hurtful are how residents of East Meadow characterize the finding of swastikas drawn on the sidewalk here on Andrea Road and Sherwood Roads.
Police on Sunday were trying to find out who drew two swastikas on the sidewalk in East Meadow, Long Island.
Police arrested a Brooklyn man late Friday, after he allegedly stole four antique ice buckets valued at a grand total of $200,000 from his employer's home on Long Island.
A program to help find lost disabled people has expanded in Nassau County.
