Hey, sweeties,
Can it be that you are now 20, 18, 16 and 14? Do you read the paper?? Are you catching this online?
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2/23/23
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(Marcia Caton, PhD, is a Freeport resident with expertise in education, parenting, and social media’s impact on families.)
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) states that suicide attempts among adolescents have increased during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a particularly alarming spike among girls -- 51% vs. 3.7% to boys.
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by Marcia Caton, PHD
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11/25/21
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A 15-year-old from Freeport was charged with the attempted murder of two Nassau County Police Officers when he lunged at them with a knife on May 5.
County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said …
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5/7/21
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Eight members of the MS-13 gang were charged on July 15 in connection to six murders that happened on Long Island from 2016 to 2017.
The U.S. District Court, in Islip, charged Carlos Alfaro, 23, of Roosevelt; Jose Moises Blanco, 30, of Salisbury, North Carolina; Oseas Gonzalez, 28, of Charlotte, North Carolina; Jose Jonathan Guevara-Castro, 25, formerly of Roosevelt and Annapolis, Maryland; Victor Lopez-Morales, 32, of Roosevelt; Ever Morales-Lopez, 26, of Freeport; David Sosa-Guevara, 28, of Roosevelt; and Kevin Torres, 24, of Freeport.
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By Ronny Reyes
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7/17/20
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"I’m going trick-or-treating with Freddy Brown this Halloween dressed as Chucky.” I said this to my mom as I left my therapist’s office at the Bio Behavioral Institute in Great Neck.
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By Brian Stieglitz
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11/7/19
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At least five Long Beach teens have been indicted by a Nassau County grand jury on Tuesday for second-degree gang assault charges in connection with a brawl that left an Oceanside student …
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By Darwin Yanes
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10/9/19
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The operative word above is “think,” because no parent can ever know his or her child, especially during the firestorm known as adolescence.
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1/11/19
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Freeport teenager, Tatiana Caceres, 13 has been missing since Oct. 14 at 10:30 p.m. The Missing Person Squad is investigating her disappearance.
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10/16/18
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A Roosevelt teenager has been arrested and charged in connection with the alleged MS-13 murder of another Roosevelt teen whose body Nassau County police discovered in a secluded woodland two weeks …
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By Scott Brinton and Nadya Nataly
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6/15/18
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An autistic 17-year-old from Franklin Square went missing Monday afternoon around 5, but was found Tuesday morning.
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By Nakeem Grant and Scott Brinton
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2/13/18
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