Tag: West Hempstead

Local actors and actresses gathered for a script reading of "Children of the April Rain" on Nov. 9 at G's Dance and Night Club in West Hempstead.

A West Hempstead man was arrested for allegedly stabbing a 26-year-old man to death in the victim’s hometown of Brooklyn over the weekend, New York City police said.

The last of three men who admitted to kidnapping and assaulting a Valley Stream man last year was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday.

A former attorney from West Hempstead was sentenced Monday to three to nine years in prison for stealing more than $5.7 million from clients and spending the funds on personal expenses.

The season of pumpkin picking, hayrides, and celebrations of all things autumn has arrived. Check out dozens of fall festivals on Long Island. The season will be gone before you know it, so don't waste time.

The only athlete who made the cut by February was Bora Gulari, a skipper on the U.S. Olympic Sailing Team who's formerly from Long Island and now living in Detroit. Syosset native, WNBA all star and three-time gold medalist Sue Bird is expected to make the US women’s basketball team once the roster is finalized. Other locals facing Olympic trials on the road to Rio include 2012 Olympic racewalker Maria Michta-Coffey of Farmingville, boxer Cam Awesome of Uniondale as well as soccer players Crystal Dunn of Rockville Centre and Allie Long of Huntington.