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Wife of crash-victim professor taken off life support

Psychologist Ilene Wasserman was a slight woman, so petite that her colleagues jokingly nicknamed her "Birdie." "She was this fragile-looking individual, but she really had the heart of a warrior," said Michael Canzoniero, a psychologist in Shoreham. Tuesday, friends and colleagues recalled 58-year-old Wasserman as a warm, kind woman who strove for the best for her patients. Wasserman was taken...

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