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11 arrested at DWI checkpoint in Melville
sophia.chang@newsday.comEleven people were arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated or while ability impaired on Friday night at a sobriety checkpoint in Melville, police said. The checkpoint was staged from 11:10 p.m. Friday until 3 a.m. Saturday on the northbound...Tags: Central Islip, Vehicles, Astoria, Melville, Police
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Babylon Republicans back Democrat for Mystal's seat
chau.lam@newsday.comBabylon Republicans are backing Jordan K. Wilson, Jr. a Democrat, to run for the Suffolk County 15th District seat left vacant after former Legis. Elie Mystal resigned amid questions surrounding his residency. At the town convention Tuesday night, GOP...Tags: West Babylon, Central Islip, Town of Babylon, North Babylon, Elections
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How LI voted
Based on polling place communities. Data provided by the Nassau and Suffolk boards of elections. Community; DEMOCRATS (Clinton / Obama ); REPUBLICANS (McCain / Romney / Huckabee / Paul NASSAU Albertson 68% 30% 59% 26% 6% 5% Atlantic Beach 74 25 60 27...Tags: St. James, Valley Stream, Roosevelt, Town of Babylon, Town of Southampton
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A message amid mourning
STAFF CORRESPONDENTAt a politically tinged funeral service that ran from noon until sundown, a crowd that joined presidents with paupers, elderly activists, thankful youths and others bade both a mournful and a joyous good-bye to the first lady of the civil rights movement,...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Alabama, Diseases, Cancer, New York
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Wheatley Heights
STAFF WRITERWheatley Heights is a quiet, compact community sandwiched among Half Hollow Hills, Wyandanch, Melville and Dix Hills. The rural hamlet is home to the Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds and the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts on Colonial Springs...Tags: Sales, Town of Babylon, Vehicles, Bellerose, Downstream Oil and Gas Activities
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A Gadfly Takes on a Veteran
STAFF WRITERIt may not bode well for Lou Molinaro's chances at winning elected office when even his opponent, Suffolk County Legis. Maxine Postal, wasn't aware that he is on the ballot. "I didn't think I had an opponent this year," Postal said. "Do I?" Postal,...Tags: Sales, West Babylon, Local Elections, Elections, Lindenhurst
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Wyandanch, Wheatley Heights
Beginnings: To its earliest settlers, the area was known as West Deer Park. But in the 1880s, the area was renamed Wyandance after a local brickyard, the Wyandance Brick and Terra Cotta Corp. It soon reverted to West Deer Park when the yard burned down in...Tags: Natural Resources, Madonna, Bellerose, The White House, Heavy Engineering
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