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Newsday.com - Long Island
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Racial strife at school? Depends on who you ask
Students and officials all have very different views on the Patchogue school attended by the six seniors and a junior who were charged in a fatal gang attack on a Latino man.
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Feds: Fishy fishing in Montauk
Feds charge Montauk fleet with illegal bass fishing
The Viking Fleet of Montauk and one of its captains have been charged by a federal agency with illegally taking patrons to catch striped bass in federal waters.
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Levy, Skelos: NYC should not reimpose commuter tax
The state Senate majority leader and Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy said yesterday they stand opposed to reinstitution of the commuter tax, calling it unfair even as New York City Council members called on Long Islanders and other commuters to pay their "fair share."
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Levy's apology called less important than his actions
Steve Levy may have "talked the talk" in his televised apology for some of his comments about the killing of an Ecuadorean immigrant in Patchogue, but friends and foes said Suffolk's county executive has to "walk the walk" before he can put the issue behind him.
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Patchogue stabbing victim's body now in his hometown
Marcelo Lucero is finally home. Only he arrived in a way his family never imagined, in a metal coffin draped with an Ecuadorean flag.
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Three MRSA cases at Stony Brook U. are unrelated, docs say
Three cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - MRSA - diagnosed in Stony Brook University students in recent weeks are epidemiologically unrelated, doctors said Wednesday.
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Levy to raise funds for scholarship, Lucero family
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy said Wednesday that he will seek to launch a county scholarship named for Marcelo Lucero, the Ecuadorean man killed in what police say was a hate-crime stabbing Nov. 8.
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Babylon installing flood of storm water filters
In what Suffolk officials call Long Island's most extensive municipal effort to reduce storm water pollution, the Village of Babylon plans to install filters at every village outfall pipe that leads to the Great South Bay.
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Charge upgraded in jogger's death
Shea Rosen, the driver accused of running down Amanda Malloy and a friend in Huntington, faces vehicular manslaughter charge
As upgraded charges of vehicular manslaughter were unsealed Wednesday in a Riverhead courtroom, Shea Rosen stared straight at the judge while family members of the jogger he's charged with killing tried to hold back tears behind him.
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