Long Island Newsday
- Tipster who lied in Tarantino case gets 6 months
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 08:34 PMThe man whose tip about the regular delivery of payrolls to a Muttontown office building led Dix Hills businessman Christian Tarantino to stage a botched robbery that resulted in the murder of an armored-car guard was sentenced to six months in prison Wednesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Slim Whitman dead; country singer was 90
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 12:01 PMCountry singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film comedy "Mars Attacks!," died Wednesday at a Florida hospital.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Truck gets stuck on Northern State overpass, clogs traffic
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 07:25 PMAn 18-wheeler loaded with bottled water was eastbound on the Northern State Parkway about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, state police said, when it struck the overpass at I.U. Willets Road in Old Westbury.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Anthony Criscuolo, Bronx teacher, arrested on rape charge
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 04:30 PMA teacher at a Bronx elementary school teacher has been arrested on a charge of second-degree rape.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - NYPD: Suspect dead in police shooting
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 03:07 PMAn NYPD officer from Long Island and a Brooklyn robbery suspect exchanged shots early Wednesday in a gunfight that killed the suspect, police said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kate Middleton baby plans revealed
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 12:30 PMWith Prince William and the former Kate Middleton expecting their first child in mid-July â and much of the world interested in the birth of a future monarch â officials at Clarence House have released some of the couple's plans, although many details are still being kept private.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Cops: Police shoot suspect in Albertson
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 01:43 PMA man with a gun was shot Wednesday morning in Albertson after he refused police orders to stop and show his hands, Nassau County police said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - HBO hit 'Girls,' star Lena Dunham film in Greenport
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 07:57 AMFourteen-year-old Charley Claudio spent her entire Tuesday morning sending pictures to Instagram.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 08:27 AMFormer investigators of the TWA Flight 800 crash off Long Island are calling on the National Transportation Safety Board to re-examine the case.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Verdict in Saddle Rock assault case on mayor
Tuesday - 06/18/2013 - 10:09 PMA Saddle Rock man on trial in an assault on the village mayor was found not guilty of four charges Tuesday, but was convicted on a lesser charge tacked on at the eleventh hour.
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- James Gandolfini dead, actor best known as Tony Soprano was 51
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 08:24 PMJames Gandolfini has died of a heart attack.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Chile earthquake, measured at magnitude 5.7, shakes Santiago area
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 06:24 PMA magnitude-5.7 earthquake shook central Chile on Wednesday, causing buildings to sway in the capital but apparently causing no major damage.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Simon Cowell snarky at Coliseum 'X Factor' auditions
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 05:55 PMSimon Cowell didn't waste any time making his mark on "The X Factor" auditions at Nassau Coliseum Wednesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Yankees' bullpen holds on to beat Dodgers in Game 1
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 06:05 PMWhat had been a major strength of the Yankees' season to this point, a strong bullpen, nearly kicked one away Wednesday afternoon.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hasan Vaughan, Thomas Singletary to spend rest of life in prison
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 03:07 PMThe two men convicted of torturing and slaughtering three people in a Central Islip home before setting it on fire with two children inside were sentenced Wednesday to the maximum, ensuring that neither sets foot outside prison again.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'X Factor' auditions return to Nassau Coliseum for round two
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 11:37 AMThis time, judges Simon Cowell, Demi Lovato, Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio will be present for taping of "The X Factor" Wednesday through Friday from Nassau Coliseum.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - CDC report: National smoking rate dropped in 2012
Tuesday - 06/18/2013 - 03:41 PMFewer people lit up in 2012, with the national percentage of adults over 18 who smoke falling to 18 percent, down from 18.9 percent in 2011, according to a new report released today by the Centers for Disease Control.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - LIRR: Wednesday morning rush 'looking good'
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 07:29 AMLIRR trains were running on or close to schedule Wednesday morning, a day after round-the-clock repairs followed a derailment in the East River Tunnel.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Boy, 13, charged in 'wrestling' death of girl, 5
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 05:32 AMA 13-year-old boy from a New Orleans suburb was charged with second-degree murder in the death of his 5-year-old half-sister after investigators said he told them he repeatedly struck her with wrestling moves imitated from TV.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Michael Hastings, journalist who exposed Gen. Stanley McChrystal in Rolling Stone, dead at 33
Tuesday - 06/18/2013 - 10:50 PMAward-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings died early Tuesday in a car accident in Los Angeles, his employer and family said.
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- Long Island to get 2 video slot parlors
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 08:10 PMLong Island will get two new video-slot machine parlors -- even if a statewide referendum to allow casinos across New York fails this fall -- under a gambling-expansion agreement announced by lawmakers Wednesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Editorial: Albany should approve Cuomo plan on gambling
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 07:12 PMIt's not surprising that NY's gambling fix isn't neatly wrapped up in a bow.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bear, k-9 dog from LI injured in subway fight, recovering
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 06:14 PMBear -- an NYPD K-9 Transit police dog -- was recovering nicely Wednesday after a confrontation with a woman who kicked him twice in the face as his human partner, Officer Vincent Tieniber, struggled to put handcuffs on her, police said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kelly Rowland criticizes Simon Cowell's style at 'X Factor' Long Island auditions
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 03:59 PMFor the members of DV8, a female quartet from New Jersey, selecting a song to perform at "the X Factor" auditions wasn't a problem.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Saletan: House bill to outlaw abortions at 20 weeks will lead to a total ban
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 03:38 PMRepublican lawmakers want to gradually get rid of legal abortions.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jeep recalls 2.7M cars, despite Chrysler's early defiance
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 12:38 PMAfter initially defying federal regulators, Chrysler abruptly agreed Tuesday to recall some older-model Jeeps with fuel tanks that could rupture and cause fires in rear-end collisions.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Carlson: Why Hillary Clinton should drop Bill
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 11:37 AMThank you, Bill, for all you've done. Now step back.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Obesity declared a disease by the American Medical Association
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 07:03 AMThe American Medical Association voted Tuesday to declare obesity a disease, a move that effectively defines 78 million American adults and 12 million children as having a medical condition requiring treatment.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Heat ensures Game 7 with OT win over Spurs as LeBron James has triple-double
Wednesday - 06/19/2013 - 01:43 AMTim Duncan looked like he was well on his way to leading the Spurs to their fifth NBA championship. But LeBron James and the defending-champion Heat wouldn't let there be a coronation on their court.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Dinosaur replicas mowed down in Southampton hit-run
Tuesday - 06/18/2013 - 11:13 PMA virtual Jurassic Park of statues in Southampton Town was brought to near extinction Tuesday when a car left the roadway and smashed through more than a dozen dinosaur creations, leaving just one, the biggest dinosaur, intact.
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