A possible crack in the chimney resulted in an early morning house fire on Jan. 11, but no injuries were reported, at 173 Bermuda Street in Atlantic Beach, according to Long Beach Fire Chief Scott Kemins. more

A two-car crash at the intersection of Burnside and Lawrence avenues in North Lawrence at 8 a.m. on Jan. 5 resulted in injuries to the drivers of the vehicles and a fluid spill that shutdown the westbound side of Burnside Avenue for an hour, officials at the scene said. more

Traffic Advisory from Nassau County Police: BANDS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH AROUND 10 AM. SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED DURING THIS … more

NORTH LAWRENCE-Police arrested Michelle Nooks, 40, of Jamaica, for petit Larceny at a store on Rockaway Turnpike on Nov. 30 at 2:30 p.m. more

Susan Williams will spend the next 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison after Nassau County Judge Norman St. George sentenced her on Dec. 17 at the Nassau County Courthouse in Mineola. more

A two-car crash resulted in injuries to two people, a utility pole being damaged and power being out for a brief time on Dec. 11 in the area of Peninsula and Woodmere boulevards in Woodmere. more

Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the Nassau County Police Department nabbed 87 drunken drivers –– count ’em, 87 –– during a stepped-up enforcement effort. In Suffolk County, police reported 60 arrests. more

MINEOLA-Gehlert Barrios, 21, of Far Rockaway, was sentenced on Dec. 1 to two to six years for manslaughter-second degree, driving while intoxicated and two misdemeanor counts of assault-third degree for the Jan. 30 vehicular crash in Cedarhurst that killed his passenger and injured two other men. more

Two firefighters from the Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department rescued a 61-year-old from a two-story, two-family house at 136 Prospect Ave. in Woodmere, while a married couple and their 4-year-old, who lived on the first floor, had to be relocated due to the fire last Friday at 7:11 p.m. more

Two workers were seriously injured in Lynbrook on Saturday when the pole they were both holding was blown into a power line, causing a severe shock to both men. According to Nassau County detectives, the men, who were working for Brook Window Cleaning, headquartered on Sunrise Highway in Lynbrook, were preparing to wash the windows at Bank of America, at 300 Merrick Road, using 
a telescoping washing pole. Nicholas Genovese 58, of Staten Island, and his co-worker, Alan Weinberg 64, of Long Beach, were standing on the ground, both holding the bottom of the pole. Weinberg was “footing” — or bracing — the pole while Genovese was walking it up the building when a gust of wind blew the pole into a nearby power line. Both men were thrown to the ground by the shock.
 According to detectives, two … more