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Saturdaya s Nora easter that featured Tropical Storm force winds wreaked havoc on the Five Towns area with thousands of power outages reported by the Long Island Power Authority and train service suspended on the Far Rockaway branch.

A crane company owner has been indicted on manslaughter and other charges after one of his 200-foot rigs collapsed and killed two workers in New York City in 2008.

For more than a year, Maryann Steinbock waited for a new liver. Then, last Friday, the Long Island, N.Y. woman got the call.

Steinbock expressed her gratitude Tuesday to the police officers who safely bought her to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx during last Friday's blizzard, making her liver transplant operation possible.

Maryann Steinbock showed her gratitude Tuesday to the doctors and police officers she said helped save her life last Friday, the day the big snowstorm brought parts of our area to a standstill.

Two Nassau County police officers were recognized as "heroes" by Nassau's top-elected official following their transport of an Atlantic Beach woman to a Bronx hospital for a life-saving organ transplant during Friday's brutal snowstorm.

The winter storm moving through our area almost posed a major problem for a 59-year-old Atlantic Beach woman, who was in dire need of a liver transplant.

The cowbells rang as runners crowded the starting line this morning for the chilly, sunny 26.2 with Donna, a national marathon to finish breast cancer.

Taste some of your favorite memories from the First Street Grille - and make some new ones - every Wednesday in Atlantic Beach from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Taste at 645 Atlantic was started by Teresa Pratt and Phyllis Burroughs as a private venue for on-site catered parties and as home for their commercial kitchen to provide outside catering.

An updated campaign finance report from Mayor Michael Bloomberg shows he spent more than $108 million on his campaign to win a third term.

Court filings show DJ AM's estate has settled a lawsuit filed over a South Carolina plane crash that killed four and left the celebrity disc jockey seriously injured.

Business leaders advising the Missouri House speaker have endorsed several economic development plans.

It's likely going to cost more to rent the Adele Grage Cultural Center beginning in February.

Many Atlantic Beach residents will head into this weekend with a sigh of relief after T-Mobile Northeast LLC decided this afternoon to drop its application for a 53-foot cell towner that would have been erected in the middle of the seaside community.

A dispute between Cayce's new mayor and some City Council members has spilled into public clashes that observers view as either political jealousies or start-up problems for Cayce's first new mayor in 18 years.

The Oscar-winning songwriter behind "You Light Up My Life" says his former fiancee did just that to him - but hid the fact that she already was married.

Emmy and Tony-winning Actor David Hyde Pierce is returning to his upstate New York hometown to play a rebuilt organ in the church he attended while growing up.

President Barack Obama keeps his attention on global terror and security matters on Tuesday, as he continues a series of meetings with advisers and others on Afghanistan.

Boat squatters are on notice to move from city waters after the City Commission passed a measure this week outlawing clandestine mooring of vessels.

It's perhaps the most significant election in the city's history. Not because any individual City Commission candidate will win Tuesday.