A memo that was accidentally posted to the Nassau County DA's website reveals a different version of events surrounding the killing of an ATF agent who was trying to stop a pharmacy holdup in Seaford, Long Island. ATF agent John Capano was killed by a shot fired by a retired Nassau County cop, and the memo suggests the cop fired without asking who the perpetrator was. more ›

On New Year's Ever, a pharmacy robbery on Long Island turned fatal when an off-duty ATF agent—and eventually an off-duty NYPD cop and an off-duty Nassau County lieutenant—confronted the suspect. John Capano, an ATF explosives specialist, was killed as was suspect James McGoey. The Nassau County police are investigating the incident, and it's possible "friendly fire" from the off-duty cops may have killed Capano. more ›

Yesterday afternoon, a robbery suspect and off-duty ATF agent were fatally shot in a confrontation that also included an off-duty NYPD police officer and an off-duty Nassau County police lieutenant. The off-duty law enforcement officials were trying to stop the suspect on a Seaford, Long Island street, and it's not clear yet who fired the fatal shots. more ›

The holiday season has started, along with lots of revelry—and Long Island police are ready. Suffolk County police made nine drunk driving arrests last night with increased patrols, which will last through New Year's Day. more ›

The investigation SAT cheating ring across Long Island schools has resulted in more current and former students being targeted. Yesterday, Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice announced 13 more individuals face charges: Four are accused of taking tests while nine paid for people to take their SATs for them. more ›

A Long Island police officer pleaded guilty to making a woman touch his clothed private parts in exchange for not ticketing her friend. Garrett Mannerz, 34, who resigned from the Nassau County Police Department and was sentenced to 80 hours of community service, was arrested after the victim recorded one of the phone calls he made her. Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice siad, "Nassau County is a safer place with Garrett Mannerz off the police force." more ›

Police have charged Khemchan Sulaiman, 45, an MTA bus maintainer from Jamaica, Queens, with second-degree attempted murder for allegedly poisoning his two-year-old daughter before trying to take his own life. But before Sulaiman can be arraigned he has to recover from his own apparent attempted suicide. He and his daughter have been in critical (now stable) condition since they were discovered barely breathing in Sulaiman's car on Monday morning. more ›

After Nassau County authorities claimed that a 19-year-old took SAT exams for other students for pay and also charged the students with misdemeanors, lawyers are the accused have been taking exception to the allegations. According to WCBS 2, the students apparently had already worked with Great Neck High School officials and the DA's office: "They had their privileges revoked and served suspensions, but now claim they are victims of broken promises, that investigators allegedly led them to believe if students cooperated, they would face no further repercussions from the cheating scandal." Wait, there's immunity for SAT cheating? more ›

How much are people willing to pay for SAT scores between 2170 and 2220? According to the Nassau County DA's office, 19-year-old Samuel Eshagoff, a Great Neck High graduate, accepted payments of $1,500-2,500 from six students to take their SATs for them. Eshagoff, who went to University Michigan and then transferred to Emory University, was arrested and charged with "Scheme to Defraud in the First Degree, six counts of Falsifying Business Records in the Second Degree, and six counts of Criminal Impersonation in the Second Degree," while the six kids who hired him were charged with misdemeanors. more ›

After dropping his sister off at school yesterday morning, Harris Sumra, 20, returned to the Long Island home he shares with his siblings and parents, and was surprised to find himself locked out. And that wasn't the only unusual thing. "I saw a car across the street," Sumra tells the Daily News. "There was a guy on the phone and he was looking at me. I knew something was going on." Confused, he knocked, and was greeted by an unidentified man who tried to drag him inside. more ›

Governor Andrew Cuomo's biggest passion—after his family and running New York State, ofco—seems to be cars. While this may be troublesome for, say, mass transit advocates, it's awesome for classic car events. Yesterday, Cuomo headed to the Cruise to the Show, the parade and car show in Nassau County, and suggested that he's going to promote the car show business in New York: "Our state does not do as much as it could do [to help car shows]. There are car shows that attract thousands of people in this country, and people come and they stay for days." more ›

Because nobody, not Jon Stewart, not Ludacris, gets one over on Bill O'Reilly, the FOX News host allegedly had the Nassau County Police Department investigate whether his wife was having an affair with a NCPD detective. The internal affairs detective who was tasked with spying on O'Reilly's wife of 15 years, Maureen McPhilmy O'Reilly, tells Gawker's source, "Do you know Bill O'Reilly? I got called into my boss' office saying they wanted me to meet with these two PI's working for O'Reilly …because a detective was having an affair with O'Reilly's wife.'" So while "Obamacare" doesn't require taxpayers to fund abortion, the average citizen on Long Island is paying for the NCPD to investigate O'Reilly's personal problems. more ›

Were you thinking of heading out to Fire Island to brave Irene? Just stop that. At 3 p.m. today Suffolk County is expected to call for a mandatory evacuation of Fire Island [Reg. Req'd]. In addition those Nassau county residents on barrier islands or in storm-surge areas south of Sunrise Highway and north of Route 25A are being asked to leave as well. But voluntarily (for now). more ›

A 32-year-old cabbie was fatally stabbed Thursday night during an altercation with another cab driver over a fare. 35-year-old Christopher Heron has been charged with the second degree murder of William Mena, after the pair allegedly fought about picking up a customer at Franklin Square in Nassau County. more ›

The Nassau County DA's office has indicted two men on felony animal cruelty charges for allegedly operating a dog fighting ring. Marlon Bernier, 25, and Ricardo Louis, 22, are charged with rearing pit bulls, "training the dogs to fight, pitting them against one another, and breeding the strongest dogs." CBS reports they then sold the dogs through their website, BlueMagicPitz.com for around $700 apiece. Authorities seized nine dogs in a raid from a home in Elmont, "many with fresh wounds from recent fights," and two of the animals required urgent medical treatment. more ›

Voters in Nassau County have the chance to cast a ballot on whether $400 million in taxpayer money should go towards building a new arena to replace the aging Nassau Coliseum. Islanders owner Charles Wang, who has been begging and pleading for some help for years, even threatening to take the team to Queens, told reporters, "I vote ‘yes’ of course. It’s an opportunity to do something and start the process of rebuilding Long Island." However, in this depressed economy, some people are against rebuilding anythig. more ›

There's no crying in baseball, but out on Strong Island there are threatening letters. An area mom was arrested Saturday night and accused of sending a series of letters threatening violence to a little league coach and other league officials after her son was rejected from the travel team. Janet Chiauzzi, 44, from East Meadow, also allegedly sent a letter to the principal of an official's children's school, accusing the official of child molestation, Newsday reports (paywall). more ›

A Long Island cop was mistakenly shot and killed by another officer while responding to a call about a Satanist decked out "Rambo-style" last night. The incident began when Theresa Kelly called Nassau County police after seeing neighbor Anthony DiGeronimo, dressed in Army fatigues and a white hockey mask stalking the streets in Massapequa Park, attacking and slashing cars with a giant knife. "I heard a loud thud against my window. I looked up and there was a man there wielding a knife and hitting my window. He was smirking and he was laughing. I screamed and he started to walk out of the driveway," 71-year-old Kelly told the Post. more ›

Unless you live in Tunisia, Facebook has been doing more harm than good lately, between selling your info to advertisers and hosting "Nassau County's Nasty List." But now Facebook has taken an even darker turn, after the social networking site became sentient and ran a woman over with a car in Nassau County on Monday. Where will it end, Facebook? more ›

A Facebook page listing the names and rumored sexual exploits of promiscuous female high school students on Long Island has been shut down—not because the list crashed Facebook's servers, but because officials were rightfully concerned about cyberbullying. One student tells Newsday (paywall) that the so-called "Nassau County's Nasty List" defamed students at a number of schools, including Uniondale High. Alanna McDonald, a senior at Uniondale, says she knows a young woman who was named on the Nasty List, which said "very disrespectful things" about the girl. McDonald also noted that she was not on the list. more ›

Six men were arrested after breaking into a house in Long Island during an attempted home invasion which was stopped by a quick-thinking 18-year-old. The suspects gained entry to the house by posing as flower delivery men: "He's carrying flowers [and] he asks for someone, then begins to hand her the flowers and displays a silver handgun," said Lt. Kevin Smith of the Nassau County police. Next time someone says they're delivering roses, ask for ID! more ›

The Nassau County DA's office announced it will not press charges against the NYC school teacher whose student drowned while on a class trip at Long Beach. Sixth grader Nicole Suriel, who could not swim, was in the water, even though there were signs clearly stating there were no lifeguards on duty, and drowned to death. Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice said, "The decision to visit the beach and allow the students to enter the ocean may not have been wise, but the evidence does not establish that it was a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would have observed." more ›

NY state Senate candidate David Mejias was arrested last night and charged for stalking and menacing his ex-girlfriend. According to Nassau County police, Mejias, 39, followed his 34-year-old ex-girlfriend in his car, forced her off the road in Matinecock, screamed at her, then chased her when she tried to get away. Mejias was charged with second-degree menacing, second-degree reckless endangerment and third-degree stalking. more ›

Dozens of houses in Queens and Nassau County are nearly uninhabitable after Monday's storms caused floods, broken windows, and (eww) sewer leaks. At least 100 people had to be evacuated from their homes, and an 8-foot wall section collapse ruptured a gas main. A foundation wall collapsed in the home of Shabana Patel, who said, “It was a dream house for us the two of us have worked so hard. We didn’t know something like this would destroy my home." more ›

We hope you're sitting down, because it appears that a relative of a big shot judge is getting preferential treatment by our justice system! Sorry to start the day on such a cynical note, but even Christopher Samenga's attorney can't quite deny the role his client's pedigree played in the sweetheart sentencing for his third DWI. "I think [the judge] recognized the last name and that she knew that his grandfather had been a judge, but I don't think this had much to do with it in terms of the case," Samenga's lawyer Peter Gerstenzang tells Newsday (paywall). That's right, not "much." Just a tad. more ›

Nassau County Corrections officer Kim Wolfe is being held for allegedly fatally shooting two people and injuring another in what being described as a shooting spree. 1010 WINS reports, "Police say an off-duty female jail guard who had been romantically involved with a nurse's aide shot her to death outside a hospital early Wednesday, then fatally shot her own uncle and wounded her grandfather at a nearby home." more ›

The 18-year-old woman who, while allegedly high on Oxycontin and Xanax, took the wheel of a passenger van and fatally struck a homeowner, was indicted on 28 charges, including manslaughter in the second degree, vehicular manslaughter in the second degree and operating a vehicle while impaired by drugs. If convicted on all counts, Kayla Gerdes could face up to 59 years in prison. Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice said, "This defendant was focused on nothing else but getting high, and now an innocent woman has been violently killed." more ›

According to Newsday, police on Long Island arrested 112 people for DWI between Friday night and Monday morning: "Nassau police said Monday night they had arrested...as many as 68 drivers, between 9 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Monday. Suffolk police said they arrested 44 people from 4 p.m. Friday through 7 a.m. Monday." The numbers will be updated today to include yesterday's other arrests, "but each of their figures as of Monday morning exceeded last year's overall holiday weekend tallies including Monday, when Suffolk totaled 41 arrests and Nassau reported 65 collars." Two years ago, Nassau County arrested 109 people for DWI over the Memorial Day Weekend and put them on the Wall of Shame. more ›