An audit of Nassau County Police Departmentovertime expenditures revealed systemic issues of under-budgeting, reliance on overly optimistic savings from management initiatives, complex precinct overtime rules and inadequate recordkeeping technology, Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos’s office announced Monday.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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4/26/16
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According to information received from the Nassau County Police Department, nearly three-quarters of a million dollars has been sliced out of the county’s budget for school crossing guards since 2010.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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4/26/16
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Donald Trump’s supporters steadily streamed into Grumman Studios on the afternoon of April 6 until more than 10,000 of them filled the venue, where war planes were once built. As they did, they walked past roughly 200 protesters who had gathered in what Nassau County police were calling a “free-speech zone,” a comparatively small, rectangular area cordoned off with aluminum barricades.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/7/16
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Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano delivered his State of the County address to a crowd of more than 400 government officials and supporters on March 15 at the Museum of American Armor at Old Bethpage. He emphasized the need for greater transparency, saying, “as one of the most transparent counties, we have learned over the years that our system can further improve.”
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By Stephany Reyes
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3/17/16
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A 14 year-old Elmont boy has been missing since Tuesday afternoon, police said.
According to the Missing Persons Squad, Joshua Mayes was last seen leaving his home on Hendrickson Avenue in Elmont …
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3/15/16
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A Brooklyn man was arrested in Lynbrook for falsifying business records on Tuesday at 4 p.m. police said.
According to police, Octavian Ocasio, 44, of Wanseer Avenue offered New York State …
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2/3/16
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On Feb. 1, an Elmont family experienced an almost unimaginable tragedy. Gabrielle Christina Johnson, a 12-year-old seventh-grader at Elmont High School, stood on the corner of Village Avenue and …
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By Steve Smirti
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2/1/16
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A jury in Suffolk County needed only two hours to convict a Huntington Station man of shooting Suffolk police officer Mark Collins, of North Bellmore, during a traffic stop last March, according to a representative of the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office.
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By Scott Brinton and Julie Mansmann
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1/27/16
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A father and son police team rescued a drowning man in Oceanside.
On Jan. 25 at about 4:45 p.m., a 50-year-old man from Franklin Square was refueling his duck boat at the Bay Park fishing station dock at the end of Weidner Avenue when he fell into the water, which was approximately 37 degrees Fahrenheit.
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By Barbra Rubin-Perry and Rebecca Melnitsky
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1/26/16
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In the past decade, the numbers of violent and property crimes in Lynbrook have remained fairly constant, with the village seeing small fluctuations in its already low crime statistics. And the …
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By Nick Ciccone
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1/13/16
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