Part two in a photo series on the Nassau County Police Academy.
Sirens blared and tires squealed as a white Chevy Caprice banked hard into a curve at Jones Beach State Park after peeling down a straightaway at 50 miles per hour last Thursday. Meanwhile, a black Crown Victoria cruiser raced across to cut the vehicle off at a four-way intersection. The Caprice braked hard as it neared the stop sign.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/29/21
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Nassau County recently announced that it finished 2020 with a surplus of $75 million (subject to some adjustment, but it’s a reasonable number to work with). Sounds like good news, right? Not so fast.
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By Howard Kopel
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4/15/21
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Part one in a series of photo stories on the Nassau County Police Academy in North Massapequa. Recruits’ names were not given to protect their privacy.
It’s 9 a.m. on a recent …
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By Scott Brinton
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3/25/21
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Forty people have been indicted in a widespread, multi-million-dollar cocaine-dealing ring that operated out of Hempstead and Rosedale — including at two unlicensed day-care …
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By Scott Brinton
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3/15/21
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Town of Hempstead Councilman Bruce Blakeman, who represents the 3rd Council District, is the pick of the Nassau County Republicans to run against County Executive Laura Curran, a Democrat, in November.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/15/21
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Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum will become a Covid-19 vaccination site, County Executive Laura Curran announced over the weekend.
“We’re focused on continuing to ramp up our …
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By Scott Brinton
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3/7/21
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There are many benefits to getting older, although I often wish that I were a lot younger. When it comes to Long Island politics, I have pretty good recall going back to the mid-1950s.
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2/18/21
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As of 8:30 p.m. Sunday, the following schools districts within the Heralds' coverage area reported on their websites that they would close on Monday, Feb. 1, because of an impending snow storm that …
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1/31/21
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Nassau County detectives said that an investigation of a county resident’s death from a fatal overdose led to the arrest of four people in Woodmere on Dec. 29.
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By Jeff Bessen
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12/30/20
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News about an FDA approval for the coronavirus vaccine is monumental, but we must not allow it to lull us into a false sense of complacency. This war isn’t over . . .
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By Laura Curran
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12/17/20
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