Where's the justice for Tankleff's parents?

July 1, 2008

Someone's getting away with murder.

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• Joye Brown: Handmade quilt reunites Long Island cousins

  June 29, 2008

  Rose Pezzanite started making her first quilt one month after her husband, Dom, died of cancer, in 2006. She's made 174 other quilts since then; she has a photo of each one, carefully numbered, in three albums.

• 8-year-old's pretty pink tee targets an ugly word

  June 26, 2008

  It took a few days to figure out the message on the pretty pink T-shirt that got an 8-year-old in trouble at her Amityville elementary school this week.

• 8-year-old's pretty pink tee targets an ugly word

  June 26, 2008

  It took a few days to figure out the message on the pretty pink T-shirt that got an 8-year-old in trouble at her Amityville elementary school this week.

• Long Islanders had big role in pension reform push

  June 24, 2008

  Take a bow, Long Island.

• Next stop: The Twilight Zone

  June 22, 2008

  Two friends took in the Jimmy Buffett concert at Madison Square Garden two weeks ago. And then, ecstatic, they hopped a Long Island Rail Road train bound for Huntington.

• Joye Brown: Civic leaders unite on a mission to renew Elmont

  June 19, 2008

  Could some superstore be coming to Elmont? That would be a big yes - if a coalition of local civic groups is successful in wooing a major retailer.

• A pipeline into LIPA's thinking

  June 17, 2008

  Kevin Law, head of the Long Island Power Authority, made his first visit to Shoreham long before last Friday, when he went with a LIPA advisory committee charged with determining the future of the mothballed nuclear power plant.

• Deaths prove Nassau child services didn't do its job

  June 15, 2008

  Nassau County's Child Protective Services unit bungled mightily its handling of a complaint against a New Cassel woman who police say drowned her three children, one by one, and posed their bodies resting together on her bed.

• Four years of pain for Southampton Taser victim's sister

  June 12, 2008

  For four years, Amnesty International has backed a moratorium on Tasers. But thousands of police departments - including some on Long Island - haven't been listening.

• Forgoing AC in the car to save on gas

  June 10, 2008

  To roll or not to roll.

• Boy's drowning should serve as a wake-up call to LI

  June 8, 2008

  I usually work as a lifeguard when a group of lively teenagers takes over my local pool. Most of them are adolescent boys, smiling, teasing, playing with one another.

• Memorial Day is every day at Calverton cemetery

  May 26, 2008

  George Miller survived the Battle of the Bulge. Now, Miller, who is 86, tends the graves of other soldiers.

• Long Island not designed to cope with gas prices

  May 22, 2008

  Slow down. Done.

• Brown: Despite effort, DWI arrests are climbing

  May 20, 2008

  That could have been me," Sgt. Keith Boyle, of the Nassau County police department's highway patrol bureau, said.

• Pomp and happy circumstances

  May 11, 2008

  Melinda and Diane Harvey of Huntington are storming the well-stocked aisles of Estelle's Dressy Dresses in Farmingdale. They're looking for extra-special Mother's Day outfits.

• At Huntington shelter, underdogs are the top dogs

  May 8, 2008

  This one's for the underdog.

• A conversation with Gov. David A. Paterson

  May 6, 2008

  A conversation with Gov. David A. Paterson

• Don't let lawn obsession override Earth consideration

  May 4, 2008

  It was well into a warm, dark evening when members of the venerable Nassau Hiking & Outdoor Club filed into a room at Eisenhower Park for a lesson in building the perfect Long Island lawn.

• 'The Fixer' turns around a troubled nursing home

  May 2, 2008

  Suffolk County wants to close its public nursing home, while Nassau County is planning to build a new one.

• Miley posed, but the adults should be ashamed

  April 29, 2008

  Dear Miley,

• Miley posed, but adults should be ashamed

  April 28, 2008

  Dear Miley,

• Home is where the heart aches

  April 27, 2008

  Sag Harbor welcomed Jordan Haerter home on a cool spring afternoon.

• Taxpayers to pay $100G pension of county employee

  April 24, 2008

  The conversation with state pension system specialist E.J. McMahon, director of the Empire Center for New York State Policy (a conservative think tank), about Nassau's Karl Kampe went something like this yesterday:

• Sharing a kneel with the future of the church

  April 20, 2008

  It's dark outside and except for one lamp, the only illumination comes from votive candles, set side by side in the shape of two crosses. Incense hangs in the air; and on both sides of the altar, banners carry the Greek symbols for alpha and omega.

• Students putting thoughts on paper? Write on!

  April 17, 2008

  OMG.

• Why and how mean more than who in pension scandal

  April 15, 2008

  The Nassau County comptroller's office ought to be going after the more than $100,000 it put toward Albert D'Agostino's fat state pension.

• Easy solutions for a guilt-free green environment

  April 13, 2008

  Paper or plastic?

• Brown: Journalism learned through Greene's passion

  April 11, 2008

  Bob Greene came between me and my husband.

• She puts her heart into saving lives

  April 10, 2008

  Call her Julie Appleseed.

• Broadwater debate needs more 'What's in it for us?'

  April 8, 2008

  Gov. David A. Paterson is promising a decision on Broadwater before the week ends.

• Agency slammed door shut on three kids' deaths

  February 26, 2008

  County officials who not long ago boasted of Nassau's commitment to its neediest ought to be hanging their heads in shame.

• Agency slammed door on 3 kids

  February 25, 2008

  County officials who not long ago boasted of Nassau's commitment to its neediest ought to be hanging their heads in shame.

• There's more to the story

  December 23, 2007

  "I crossed the color line a long time ago," John White told me in one of the few informal conversations we had in the hallway during courtroom breaks during his trial in Riverhead.

• How can syringe misuse, lack of data happen now?

  November 15, 2007

  Hepatitis killed my mother.

• This place needs change to be great

  January 25, 2007

  More and more residents on Long Island, home of the nation's first postwar suburb, say it's harder than ever to pay the mortgage. That's hard to imagine. But the data are right there on page 4 of this year's Long Island Index report.

• Embracing King's radical message

  January 16, 2007

  Now might be a good time to cut Martin Luther King Jr. back down to size.

• Driver's widow describes a love story

  October 4, 2006

  Rita Rabinowitz took her daughter's hand, holding tight as the DVD began to play before a crowded, hushed courtroom. And there, as she sat watching, she saw her husband's death just as he saw it that night -- through his eyes, from the front of the limousine in which he died.

• Loss of more than a child

  September 12, 2006

  Jennifer and Neil Flynn skipped breakfast yesterday, hours before testimony began in the trial of a man charged with second-degree murder in the death of their eldest child, 7-year-old Katie.

• Only right step is to step down from district

  August 8, 2006

  Richard Hawkins ought to rethink his decision not to step down as superintendent of the William Floyd school district. And he ought to take some school board members with him.

• For Rice, it's broom for change

  August 1, 2006

  The question for Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice yesterday was: Are you the witch critics say you are?

• At long last, NUMC sees some heroes

  July 21, 2006

  Let's say you want to mess with the Roosevelt School District. You have to get past State Assemb. Earlene Hooper and State Sen. Charles Fuschillo.

• Nassau first passes blame, now buck

  April 25, 2006

  Nassau County Attorney Lorna Goodman says she won't use county taxpayers' money to pay a $63,000 legal bill, the highest to come out of a bitter fight settled more than two months ago over the leadership in the county legislature.

• Keep these kids stationed here

  April 20, 2006

  'This club has kept me off the street and kept me out of the gang."

• Stereotypes all over this case

  April 19, 2006

  A rich kid. A white boy. A jock. Collin Finnerty, one of Long Island's own, was arrested early yesterday on charges of raping and kidnapping a black stripper hired to dance at an off-campus party.

• A Cradle with links to history

  March 23, 2006

  Kathy Wojcieszak left her long white scarf at the Cradle of Aviation museum in Mitchel Field almost three years ago. It was still there yesterday, streaming behind a pilot in a plane hanging from the lobby's ceiling.

• First step toward solution

  March 9, 2006

  Mr. Levy went to Washington this week. And he took a collection of officials who merit serious consideration from President George W. Bush.

• Students are the principal concern

  February 28, 2006

  What happened in Vermont didn't stay in Vermont.

• Tom assures Nassau's not out of sight

  February 26, 2006

  Someone called with a suggestion recently for a two-page graphic in the center of Newsday: A state map showing every stop Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi has made campaigning for governor.

• In Nassau, no work, all pay

  February 2, 2006

  The Nassau County Legislature has given us a month of nothing.

• Suozzi's revving up for whole new race

  November 15, 2005

  "Buckle up."