Residents Rally Against Community Policing Plan In Nassau County
On Saturday, outraged PBA members and residents came together to fight a proposal to revamp four precincts, turning them into community policing centers.
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On Saturday, outraged PBA members and residents came together to fight a proposal to revamp four precincts, turning them into community policing centers.
After the massacre at a pharmacy in Medford, robberies, and concerns of prescription drug abuse, hundreds gathered in Bethpage on Tuesday to discuss pharmacy security.
The First Precinct in Baldwin, Fifth Precinct in Elmont, Sixth Precinct in Manhasset and Eighth Precinct in Levittown will become community policing centers with fewer officers under the plan.
"Went up to my bedroom first, got some jewelry out of the bedroom," said resident Sal Filliponi.
Two Long Island senators and other elected officials are backing a bill to repeal the MTA payroll tax for Nassau and Suffolk counties, towns and villages.
Nassau County police officer Todd Atkin said when he arrived at a Westbury home responding to a 911 call, he saw a 40-year-old mother with her newborn son in her arms.
On Friday, we'll get the January unemployment figures from the Labor Department, but today a job fair was being held in Nassau County.
The County's failed to collect $10 million in unpaid red light camera fines as well as $26 million in parking tickets and $44 million in traffic fines.
Under a new plan announced by Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano on Monday, four of the county's eight police precincts would close and be turned into community policing centers to save money.
The county will be implementing a new Community Policing Plan which Executive Ed Mangano said will save taxpayers up to $20 million a year.
They are said to have preyed on the elderly and those struggling to find affordable housing or a better-paying job.
Police say a man was stabbed in the face outside the popular Houston's restaurant at the Roosevelt Field mall.
Former New York Giants punter Sean Landeta wears two Super Bowl rings and he knows how tough it is to get one.
It's been four years since the Giants advanced to the Super Bowl and they're just one game away from returning to the big game.
A home invasion suspect has died after an exchange of gunfire last night with Nassau County police in North Valley Stream.
Howie Lang is demanding justice after an investigation revealed that a police officer was speeding when he struck and killed his wife Sherry.
The FAA announced new flights plans for 200 planes a day last fall but insisted the aircraft would fly at 10,000 feet -- too high to be heard.
Two women are dead in a pair of unrelated vehicle accidents. A 27-year-old woman was killed Sunday morning in Old Westbury. Investigators said that she was driving a two door Infiniti when she hit the rear end of a tractor-trailer on the Long Island Expressway.
Authorities said there have been at least five incidents.
Stony Brook University's World Trade Center Health Program is expanding to neighboring Nassau County. Officials will open the second site on Friday. The new location is at Winthrop-University Hospital's "wellness pavilion'' in Garden City.
A New York pediatrician already charged in state court with sexually abusing young female patients is now facing federal charges.
Comptroller George Maragos says the county is owed over $80 million.
52-year-old Ivan Shamberger is accused of stealing a paycheck from his relative, but the crime didn't end there.
According to detectives, a 63-year-old woman in Sea Cliff discovered a swastika drawn in black marker on a panel of her garage door.
A Queens man was arrested Friday on robbery charges after he allegedly went behind a counter and attacked a CVS Pharmacy worker in Hewlett, Nassau County police said.
