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World Series MVP headed to L.A.

Gang Green in the Middle of Playoff Mix


Jets approaching final three games as 'do-or-die'

Duo Sentenced in Deaths of 2 Men


One gets life, the other 50 years imprisonment for murder, dismemberment

NY Senators Seek to Ban BPA from Kids’ Products


Hope to ban on potentially carcinogenic chemical used in plastic food and drink containers

Advocates Rally for Affordable Housing in Huntington


Group braves the cold to show support for development

Citigroup to Repay $20 Billion in Bailout Money


NY-based bank was among the hardest hit by the credit crisis

Farmingville Man Convicted of Officer’s Death

Farmingville Man Convicted of Officer’s Death »

A Suffolk County jury found a Farmingville man guilty on Monday of fatally choking a Suffolk County Corrections officer who was moonlighting as a bouncer at a Southampton bar last year. Anthony Oddone, 27, was convicted of first-degree manslaughter after nine days of deliberations before Judge C. Randall Hinrichs at Suffolk County court in Riverhead. The jury [...]...

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Duo Sentenced in Deaths of 2 Men

Duo Sentenced in Deaths of 2 Men »

Two men were sentenced Monday at Suffolk County court in Riverhead in the shooting and dismemberment of a pair of rivals in a drug deal gone bad. Darren Lynch, 29, of Queens, and James Wall, 30, of Coram, were convicted last month of murder and kidnapping in the deaths of 22-year-old Jairo Santos and 35-year-old Joseph Odierno. Lynch testified [...]...

December 14 2009 / No comments yet / Read more »
Advocates Rally for Affordable Housing in Huntington

Advocates Rally for Affordable Housing in Huntington »

More than a dozen supporters, organized by the Massapequa-based Long Island Progressive Coalition (LIPC), chanted “Yes In My Backyard” in support of the Avalon Bay development planned for Huntington Station amid a pro-affordable housing rally at Huntington Town Hall on Saturday. LIPC’s YIMBY campaign, as it’s called, aims to counteract those who tend to be opposed to developments [...]...

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Mental Exam Set for Woman in Pet Torture Case

Mental Exam Set for Woman in Pet Torture Case »

A woman will undergo a psychiatric evaluation following the discovery of more than 40 dead animals buried in her Long Island yard. Suffolk County Judge Paul Hensley said Monday that psychiatrists will determine whether Sharon McDonough is “an incapacitated person.” The results are due Friday. McDonough pleaded not guilty last month to animal abuse after five dogs [...]...

December 14 2009 / 1 comment / Read more »
Bohemia Man Shot, Killed in Home Invasion

Bohemia Man Shot, Killed in Home Invasion »

A Bohemia man was fatally shot during a home invasion early Monday morning, Suffolk police said. The victim, 53-year-old Steven Privitera, a truck driver, was shot in the abdomen inside his Sycamore Avenue home by two masked men who had forced their way into the house and demanded money at 12:28 a.m., according to Homicide Squad [...]...

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Teen Fatally Stabbed in Hempstead

Teen Fatally Stabbed in Hempstead »

A teenager was fatally stabbed in his hometown of Hempstead early Saturday morning, Nassau police said. Hempstead Police officers found Erick Avalos, 16, suffering from several stab wounds on Cameron Avenue at 3:30 a.m. He was taken to Nassau University Medical Center where he died a half hour later. Homicide Squad detectives ask that anyone with [...]...

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Sonic Boom: The (Second) Best CDs of 2009 »

Sonic Boom: The (Second) Best CDs of 2009

Last week, I got my 2009 Village Voice Pazz & Jop Poll ballot, which means it is officially, finally, not too early for me craft my list of the 10 best albums of 2009. Naturally, this is a list I have been compiling literally all...

Dec 11 2009 / No comments yet / Columns / Read more »

New Spots For the New Year »

New Spots For the New Year

Where Collins and Main impressed the neighbors for a good run comes this replacement with a menu of small plates from owner Manny Lakios and Chef Sean Blakeslee, who last cooked at Porters on the Lane in Bellport. Lakios named the place after the symbol...

Dec 11 2009 / No comments yet / Columns, Eater's Digest, Food, Living / Read more »

Nothing But Net: For the Week of Dec. 10 – Dec. 16 »

Nothing But Net: For the Week of Dec. 10 – Dec. 16

So the other day I was sitting in my climate-controlled living room, wearing a chinchilla fur bathrobe and rabbit fur slippers and eating glazed veal shallots with grated white truffle on top, when one of those commercials for ChildFund International came on. And talk about...

Dec 10 2009 / No comments yet / Columns, Nothing But Net / Read more »

Getting Back Your Old Paycheck »

Getting Back Your Old Paycheck

Last week the Department of Labor announced that the number of long-term unemployed people (those out of work for six months or longer) is growing, while the number of short-term unemployed is shrinking. What the DOL didn’t address is a hot topic that is consistently...

Dec 10 2009 / No comments yet / Columns, Jobs and Careers / Read more »

The Murder Of My New Computer »

The Murder Of My New Computer

It was the nicest, neatest, new Apple laptop computer. I’d had it for just six days. So I was treating my new computer with great care. I cradled it in my arms as though it were a 6-day-old infant. Although I must admit I have never...

Dec 10 2009 / No comments yet / Columns, Jerry's Ink / Read more »

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Review: Solid Brown CD still can’t escape cloud

Review: Solid Brown CD still can’t escape cloud

Chris Brown, “Graffiti” (Jive) If you listen to Chris Brown’s “Graffiti” in a vacuum, you will hear a solid, entertaining album, with a good balance of pillow talk, club grooves, heartfelt ballads and swagger anthems. The problem is, it’s not great enough to make you forget about the elephant in the room. This is Brown’s first CD [...]...

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Movies

Firth Dazzles In Radiant ‘A Single Man’

Firth Dazzles In Radiant ‘A Single Man’

A Single Man easily could have been one of those style-over-substance visual dazzlers, coming as it does from Tom Ford, the fashion designer who revived the house of Gucci. Yet with Colin Firth delivering a career performance that’s pure elegance and heartache and Julianne Moore providing graceful support, A Single Man works as engaging [...]...

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Food

New Spots For the New Year

New Spots For the New Year

Where Collins and Main impressed the neighbors for a good run comes this replacement with a menu of small plates from owner Manny Lakios and Chef Sean Blakeslee, who last cooked at Porters on the Lane in Bellport. Lakios named the place after the symbol for copper, and playing off the name they’ve created a theme for the menu and...

Dec 11, 2009 / More »

Gossip: Loose Lips

Long Island Letters To Santa

Long Island Letters To Santa

So, we’ve had enough of Tiger Woods and Kate Gosselin. Lindsay Lohan and Mariah Carey--who are they? Oh from Long Island? Really? Amy Fisher? Never heard of her. Anyway, moving on to someone we’re proud to have on Long Island this month… Santa. ...

Dec 11, 2009 / More »

Interviews

Jenni Farley Brings J-WOWW Factor To Jersey Shore

Jenni Farley Brings J-WOWW Factor To Jersey Shore

Both on the show and in real life, Franklin Square’s Jenni Farley is called Jenni WOWW, or J-WOWW: a nickname she was given by a DJ at East Quogue’s Neptune Beach Club. It’s a reference to her unnaturally curvaceous, titanium-hard body and ludicrously provocative style of dress, both of which are more in line with a Marvel Comics superheroine than...

Dec 10, 2009 / More »

Nothing But Net

Nothing But Net: For the Week of Dec. 10 – Dec. 16

Nothing But Net: For the Week of Dec. 10 – Dec. 16

So the other day I was sitting in my climate-controlled living room, wearing a chinchilla fur bathrobe and rabbit fur slippers and eating glazed veal shallots with grated white truffle on top, when one of those commercials for ChildFund International came on. And talk about a mood kill. So what if my $1 donation can feed an entire village for...

Dec 10, 2009 / More »

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Out of Grief Project SOAR Is Born

Out of Grief Project SOAR Is Born

The Magros of Hicksville were an ordinary Long Island family, but everything changed in 2004, when Terrie and Paul Magro and their sons Michael and Mark were thrust into a situation that is unfathomable. Mark was just 11 years old when Terrie and Paul heard the words that would change their lives forever: [...]...

Dec 9, 2009 / More »

Green Living

Farmville: Bringing Farming Back

Farmville: Bringing Farming Back

Now, before you judge us, we were just like you, making fun of people who spend time, not just on Facebook, but on Farmville—grown men running to their computers in a panic, feverishly harvesting their cranberries before they wither, co-workers fertilizing each other’s crops. Then we got sucked in too. While we’ve managed to kick the FB habit, farming--not so...

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