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Roosevelt schools eye $13.4 million surplus
john.hildebrand@newsday.comThe state-run Roosevelt school district has erased its budget deficit and closed the year with a $13.4 million surplus, according to a report from Albany that gives much of the credit to tighter constraints on spending. The surplus reported yesterday...Tags: Academic Progress
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Roosevelt teen held at knifepoint
A Roosevelt teen preparing to take a shower was held at knifepoint as bandits in gloves and ski masks ransacked her bedroom, Nassau police said yesterday. The teen, whose name was not released, was not injured, and the bandits did not appear to have...Tags: Teen-agers, Police, Juvenile Delinquency, People
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A bright new start for Roosevelt schools
john.hildebrand@newsday.comIn an event rarely seen on Long Island since the 1960s, the Roosevelt district tomorrow is scheduled to open two gleaming new school buildings. These come complete with such 21st-century touches as climate control, flat-screen televisions and walls of...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Students, Renovation, Dowling College, Central Islip
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Roosevelt landlord cited after tenant attacked
eden.laikin@newsday.comThree weeks after a man was attacked at a single-family house in Roosevelt used by Nassau County to house homeless men, Hempstead building inspectors cited the landlord for multiple violations, including using the first floor as a church and using...Tags: Church and State Relations, Society, Justice System, Illnesses, Town of Hempstead
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Brooklyn man charged in violent Roosevelt robbery
joseph.mallia@newsday.comA Brooklyn man was arrested Tuesday night and charged with breaking into a Roosevelt home earlier this month, pistol-whipping and robbing the resident, police said. Joshua Dunn, 23, of 580 Midwood St., was charged with first-degree robbery and...Tags: Theft, Police, Firearms, Police Arrests, Brooklyn (New York City)
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Roosevelt cleaver attack leads to lawsuit
eden.laikin@newsday.comA man used a cleaver to attack another resident of the house where he was renting a room - a single-family Roosevelt home the Nassau Department of Social Services packed with seven tenants, according to a $2-million notice of claim the victim's attorney...Tags: Society, Illnesses, Melville, Rental Service, Mental Illness
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Suspect in Queens slaying stopped near Mexican border
john.valenti@newsday.comThe alleged killer of a Queens woman whose cries for help went unanswered as she left her bloody handprints on two apartment doors Saturday in College Point was apprehended Tuesday in Brownsville, Texas -- just 100 yards from the Mexican border....Tags: Police, Demographics, Brownsville, New York, Crimes
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Lawsuit: Nassau agency's moves put Roosevelt in danger
eden.laikin@newsday.comThe Nassau Social Services Department has for years used Roosevelt as a dumping ground for clients with histories of violence, criminal activity or mental illness, placing the community in danger, said a lawyer whose client is suing DSS. "Roosevelt has...Tags: NAACP, Society, Illnesses, Melville, Rental Service
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Manny, it wasn't a lot of bunk
Sun Movie CriticOn a couple of public occasions, I saw Manny Farber, the artist and critic who died Monday at age 91, deflect high-flown praise for his criticism and painting with the simple, emphatic words, "That's a lot of bunk." Even at his most challenging, as a...Tags: Jean-Luc Godard, Celebrity, New York, Movies, Film Festivals
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Manny Farber, a prescient, pungent artist-critic
Baltimore SunOn a couple of public occasions, I saw Manny Farber, the artist and critic who died last week at age 91, deflect high-flown praise for his criticism and painting with the simple, emphatic words, "That's a lot of bunk." Even at his most challenging, as a...Tags: Jean-Luc Godard, Celebrity, Arts, New York, Movies
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Accidental Dave: "Paranoia" ???
Spin CycleWe took a few jabs at Gov. Paterson for his inaccurate and somewhat pander-ous suggestion to the NAACP yesterday that the media described him as the "accidental governor" based on some racial motivation. The NYSun, however, takes it a......Tags: NAACP, Executive Branch, New York, Regional Authority, Government
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