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Amityville, NY
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Train Crash In Amityville: What We Know
A person was struck and killed by an LIRR train Thursday morning, May 22 on Long Island, officials confirmed. The crash happened in Amityville at approximately 5:30 a.m., according to Ray Raimundi, a spokesperson for the MTA. The westbound train was headed to the Amityville Station when the crash occurred. The person was pronounced dead and the passengers were accommodated by another train just before 6:15 a.m., Raimundi said. Sources tell Daily Voice that this was a suspected suicide.
Mineola, NY
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Minister Repeatedly Had Sex With Underage Girl In Nassau County, Police Say
A man who works as both a minister and hospital chaplain is accused of sexually abusing a minor on Long Island. Reginald Chery, age 46, was arrested at his Brooklyn residence Wednesday, May 21, following an investigation by the Nassau County Police Department’s Special Victims Squad. Detectives determined that Chery repeatedly has sexual relations with an underage girl in Nassau County between Janaury 2014 and August 2016, police said. At the time of his arrest, Chery was employed as a minister at the South Bronx Seventh-day Adventist Church on Crotona Avenue, and served as a chaplain at S…
Bay Shore, NY
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Bay Shore Man Who Stabbed Officer During Chaotic Arrest Formally Charged: DA
A suspected car prowler was formally charged with stabbing a Long Island police officer during a chaotic arrest that left the officer hospitalized. Steven Vazquez, 22, of Bay Shore, was indicted for aggravated assault on a police officer in Suffolk County Court on Tuesday, May 20, for allegedly stabbing a Suffolk County cop. Officers initially responded to Gibbs Road in Amityville for reports of a masked individual breaking into cars at around 1 a.m. Tuesday, May 6, as Daily Voice reported. That’s where they reportedly found Vazquez hiding beneath a pickup truck. As one officer approached …
Central Islip, NY
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Central Islip Brothers, 19 & 20, Deported Without Warning Despite Pending Legal Status: Lawyer
Two Long Island brothers who spent nearly half their lives in the US were abruptly deported, despite having no criminal record and a pending path to legal residency, their attorney claims. Jose Trejo Lopez, 20, and Josue Trejo Lopez, 19, were deported to El Salvador on Wednesday, May 7, just weeks after a New York Family Court granted them legal guardianship—an important step in their effort to remain in the US legally, their attorney, East Islip immigration lawyer Ala Amoachi, said. The brothers, originally from El Salvador, came to the US in 2016 at ages 10 and 11 with their mother, fleei…
Freeport, NY
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Cop Flipped Car, Injured 2 In Fiery Crash—Now He’s Heading To Prison
A former NYPD detective is headed to prison after admitting he was drunk and speeding when he crashed his car on a Long Island parkway, seriously injuring two women. George Moore, 40, of Freeport, was sentenced to three to six years in prison in Nassau County Court on Monday, May 19, after pleading guilty to aggravated vehicular assault and related charges in connection with the August 2023 incident. Moore was behind the wheel of a Mercedes with a female passenger around 4 a.m. on August 4, 2023, when he slammed into a Jeep Grand Cherokee in the center lane of the Meadowbrook Parkway while…
Bay Shore, NY
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Woman Stabbed Ex To Death Outside Bay Shore Train Station, DA Says
A woman was captured on surveillance video stabbing her ex-boyfriend to death outside a Long Island train station, prosecutors said. Nikeya Barker, 44, of Bay Shore, was arraigned on murder charges in Suffolk County Court on Monday, May 19, in the killing of 47-year-old Shurvell Rush, of Central Islip. The fatal stabbing happened around 6:45 p.m. on Saturday, May 3, when Suffolk County Police responded to Railroad Plaza and found Rush with a stab wound to the chest. He was taken to South Shore University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, as Daily Voice reported. Surveillance video fr…
National Interest
Video: Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder, Merrick Native Ben Cohen Booted From Senate Over Gaza Protest
Dramatic video shows the moment Ben & Jerry’s co-founder and Long Island native Ben Cohen was escorted out of a US Senate hearing while protesting Congress’ role in the Israel-Hamas war. The 74-year-old Cohen was arrested Wednesday, May 14, after joining several protesters in interrupting a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing that featured testimony from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Capitol Police said Cohen and the others were charged with “crowding, obstructing, or incommoding,” a misdemeanor offense related to illegal protesting…
Bethpage, NY
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PA Man Extradited For Bethpage Hotel Murder Of Florida Man: Nassau County Police
A Pennsylvania man has been extradited and will be arraigned for the shooting death of a Florida husband outside a Long Island hotel, Nassau County Police announced late Thursday, May 15. Santana Sgroilin, 22, of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, is accused of gunning down Jorge Vazquez, 35, of Tampa, Florida, outside the Extended Stay America hotel at 905 South Oyster Bay Road in Bethpage around 9:41 p.m. on Wednesday, April 2, police said. Vazquez was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene by Nassau County Police paramedics. After nearly a month on the run…
National Interest
Garfield Engineer Flunked Out Of Rutgers In 1957; At 85, He Graduates As Oldest Student Ever
Tom Maniscalco was 18 when he first stepped onto the Rutgers campus in 1957. Nearly 70 years later, he’s graduating. At 85 years old. The Garfield resident will earn a master’s degree in engineering this week, becoming Rutgers’ oldest graduate in school history, the university said. “It’s a sense of accomplishment at my age,” Maniscalco said. Maniscalco originally enrolled at Rutgers to study mechanical engineering, but flunked out after one semester. He got an A in calculus and a B in physics, but failed engineering drawing. “Of all things, engineering drawing! And I became a design engi…
Shelter Island, NY
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‘Son Of Sam’ Detective, Former Giants Farmhand Laid To Rest In Greenport At 93
A towering figure in New York City law enforcement — whose name became forever linked with some of the most infamous cases in the city’s history — was laid to rest this week on Long Island. Joseph Borrelli, the retired NYPD Chief of Detectives who helped crack the terrifying Son of Sam case and led some of the department’s most high-profile investigations over four decades, died Wednesday, May 7, at the age of 93 following a brief illness, according to his obituary. Borrelli, who was born in Brooklyn, began his career with the NYPD in 1959 after serving two years in the Army and spending se…
Albany, NY
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Up To $400 'Inflation Refund' Checks On Way To Millions Of NY Households: Here's Who Qualifies
New Yorkers will get some financial relief this fall. “Inflation refund” checks of up to $400 will be mailed directly to 8.2 million households across New York beginning in October, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday, May 14. No application, sign-up, or extra steps are required. The checks are part of the FY 2026 State Budget and aim to ease the financial strain on working- and middle-class families impacted by rising prices, Hochul’s office said. “It’s simple—this is your money and we’re putting it back in your pockets,” Hochul said in a statement. “I’ll never stop fighting to help you…
National Interest
Great White Shark Spotted Off Montauk: Watch Drone Footage
With Memorial Day two weeks away, a great white shark was spotted off the coast of Long Island. Drone footage shows it off the shore of Montauk, the eastern-most point in the Hamptons, on Monday, May 12. It was captured by photographer Joanna L Steidle, who told Storyful, "I have been flying these waters for eight years and this is the earliest shark spotting I have had in a season and it is also the closest to shore I have spotted a great white." Click here to view the drone footage on Storyful. Lifeguards don't go on duty until later this month. Great white sharks, the largest pre…
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