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A Long Island woman was arraigned yesterday on manslaughter charges after beating up her 75-year-old mother and leaving her to die, incapacitated and unable to get help in her Islip home. The altercation took place after the victim, Marlene Young, chastised her daughter for purchasing too many groceries. After turning around, Young was kicked from behind by her daughter Laurie and then dragged across the floor and onto the bed. Laurie Young first told police the next day that she had discovered her mother dead in bed, only to later expound upon the incident that took place. An officer involved with the case informed Newsday, "One of the things Laurie Young told us was that she put her mother back into her bed and would not call the police because she was afraid of being arrested for her actions."

A Long Island woman has filed a $4 million lawsuit against the Mount Sinai Medical Center, its Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders, and the Suffolk County medical examiner's office for removing her husband's brain after his death two years ago. Mozelle Purifoy of Central Islip says that neither she nor her husband Tom had ever agreed for his organs to be donated before his suicide in 2006. Yet on the day of his funeral she learned that he was being buried minus one key part. Even though she claims that the chief Suffolk medical examiner met with her last year and told her that it should have been returned, she still doesn't know where the brain is. "It's ghoulish. It's bizarre. It's just one trauma after the next," Purifoy said.

The family who found a California King snake wrapped around a 7-month-old baby's leg on Monday has decided to sue the mattress manufacturer and store where the mattress was purchased.

How a California King snake wound up in a Long Island Island baby's crib is up for debate. But what is known is that the 7-month-old whose leg had the snake coiled around it is safe. Her mother, though, not so much: Cari Abatemarco, who was visiting relatives in Brentwood, said, "Once I lifted [baby Isabella] up and the snake fell off of her, she stopped crying. But then I was the one crying all night."