Long Island Briefs
ROCKY POINT/Girl critical after hit by car
A 9-year-old girl was critically injured when she was hit by a sport utility vehicle while riding her bicycle in Rocky Point, Suffolk County police said.
Robert Dougherty, 20, was driving a 1990 Jeep southbound on Madison Street at 7:15 p.m. Friday when his vehicle struck Jackelin Vilorio at the intersection of Roosevelt Street, police said.
Vilorio, of Rocky Point, was taken to Stony Brook University Medical Center, where she was admitted in critical condition. Police said yesterday that her condition had not changed.
Dougherty, also of Rocky Point, was not injured. No charges were filed, although the Jeep was impounded for a safety check. The investigation is continuing, police said.
-- Robert Brodsky
WOODBURY/Bomb scare halts rail service
Service on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Jefferson line was suspended between Hicksville and Huntington for about two hours last night after two boxes suspected to be bombs were found near the track, officials said.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said the Nassau County Police Bomb Squad was called when two white coolers were spotted under the Woodbury Road overpass.
Officials shut power between Hicksville and Huntington shortly after 7 p.m. while the bomb squad investigated.
Service was restored about 8:50 p.m. after police determined there was nothing dangerous in the coolers, the spokesman said.
-- ANN GIVENS
SADDLE ROCK/Woman attacked in home
A 68-year-old woman is recovering after two intruders attacked her in her Saddle Rock home Friday afternoon, Nassau County police said.
The unidentified woman entered her Grist Mill Lane home about 3:30 p.m. to find two men brandishing black handguns, police said. One suspect then struck the woman over the head with a gun, and the men tied up the victim.
The suspects stole the woman's cellphone, pocketbook and cash before fleeing. The victim, who sustained a concussion, refused medical assistance at the scene. Both suspects were last seen wearing gray sweatshirts. One was described as 5-foot-11, and the other as 5-foot-3.
-- Robert Brodsky
Out East with Doug Geed: Wine harvests, a fish market, baked treats and poinsettias NewsdayTV's Doug Geed visits two wineries and a fish market, and then it's time for holiday cheer, with a visit to a bakery and poinsettia greenhouses.
Out East with Doug Geed: Wine harvests, a fish market, baked treats and poinsettias NewsdayTV's Doug Geed visits two wineries and a fish market, and then it's time for holiday cheer, with a visit to a bakery and poinsettia greenhouses.
