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LI Intel semifinalist Samantha Garvey no longer homeless

Brentwood High School senior Samantha Garvey and her family, who were homeless when she became an Intel semifinalist, move into their Suffolk County-owned home in Bay Shore. Videojournalist: Jim Staubitser (Jan. 28, 2012)

A Brentwood High School student who was living at a shelter when she was selected as a semifinalist in a national science competition has a home again.

Less than a month after the family was forced to relocate to a homeless shelter, Samantha Garvey and her parents, twin brother and sister Saturday moved into a Suffolk County-owned home in Bay Shore.

The family -- with Garvey's science...

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