http://1010wins.com The most recent stories from Long Island. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:54:03 EDT en-us A Long Island pastor says one of his congregants donated a lottery ticket to his church just after scratching it off and realizing it was worth $3 million. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:52:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2654943 Police&nbsp;released surveillance photos Wednesday of a bank robber they've dubbed the&nbsp;&quot;bling bandit.&quot;&nbsp Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:22:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2654482 One woman was killed and a man and two children were seriously injured in a two-car crash on Long Island Tuesday night. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:39:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2653994 Suffolk County police say the story just didn't make sense. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:28:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2652876 Police say a Long Island homeowner was involved in a shootout with two men who attempted to rob him Monday night. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:02:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2646061 An Irish teenager who was born with an extremely rare facial deformity, missing his lower jaw, is one surgery away from getting the face he always wanted. Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:16:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2639615 A speedboat taking part in a race on a Long Island bay has overturned, killing two people. Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:28:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2638941 &nbsp;A car has slammed into a fire hydrant and burst into flames on Long Island, seriously injuring three people. Two children and an adult were injured in the crash on Sunday afternoon. Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:44:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2634826 Police say bystanders beat and tried to rob a cab driver after he got into an accident. Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:44:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2633242 The Coast Guard says a husband and wife had to dive for safety after a boat rammed into their dinghy on Long Island Sound. Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:20:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2633184 A tip line set up by the New York state attorney general's office to let Long Islanders report deceptive pricing at the gas pump was apparently so popular the phone lines couldn't handle it. Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:06:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2633098 Officials say an entrepreneurial engineer launched a counterterrorism investigation when he tested an unmanned aircraft in Long Island last year, but authorities determined he posed no threat. Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:25:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2632381 Police say the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn have requested files on the death of a Long Island man in police custody. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:04:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2631516 A Long Island lawmaker wants to reserve space for fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles in county parking lots. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:20:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2630006 Customers who use the Long Island Rail Road can expect to spend an extra 30 to 45 minutes traveling if they're taking the main line this weekend. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:43:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2629254 Authorities say a pet goat named Teddy was found strangled with a belt around his neck on a Long Island street. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:16:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2629043 A Long Island nursing assistant has been accused of using a hospital patient's stolen credit card. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:50:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2626876 A mother says her learning-disabled son was forced to the ground and roughly handcuffed for refusing to drop a small rock he'd picked up at his Long Island school. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:47:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2626651 A Long Island jury has convicted a man of sexually abusing three young girls and acquitted him of abusing two others. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:31:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2626595 A Long Island man was crushed to death when his car fell on him while he was replacing the transmission. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:48:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2624889 A man who calls himself&nbsp; &quot;Long Island's Favorite Magician'' has been accused of secretly videotaping a mother and her two young daughters as they undressed. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:44:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2622722 A Long Island airport employee is accused of hiding a video camera in the women's bathroom so he could spy on co-workers. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:10:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2619935 A Long Island country club caddie accused of fatally choking an off-duty correction officer working as a bouncer in a Hamptons bar has pleaded not guilty to a grand jury indictment charging him with murder. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:23:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2618593 The funeral for 25-year-old Army soldier Andre Darnell Mitchell was held Tuesday at the Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral in Queens. Mitchell was buried in Calverton National Cemetery in Suffolk. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:31:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2618313 Police say a man died after falling through the roof of a Long Island sports club where he was working. Nassau County homicide detectives say Centereach resident Thomas Miller fell through the roof of Shelter Rock Tennis and Country Club in Manhasset about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2617137 Authorities responding to a 911 call found a newborn baby girl in a gym bag left on the corner of a Hempstead street. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:55:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2610113 A millionaire New Jersey husband and wife were found shot in their East Hampton summer home, and Suffolk County authorities are investigating it as a murder-suicide. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:28:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2609842 A Long Island newlywed convicted of manslaughter after strangling her husband with an electrical cord has been sentenced to 21 years in prison. Authorities say Kelly Forbes, 29, killed her husband, Michael Forbes, 50, in their Merrick home on Nov. 21, 2007, while her 7-year-old daughter slept in a nearby bedroom. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:57:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2604904 The lawmaker who leads the Republican majority in the state Senate voted for New York's first bottle bill when he was a rank-and-file legislator. Now that Dean Skelos of Long Island is the Senate majority leader, environmentalists are hoping he's the key player who can finally expand the deposit law and keep more plastic trash from littering the state's streets, roadsides and beaches. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:33:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2603404 A 5-year-old girl who hopped into a toy wagon while playing outside her Long Island home and rolled down the driveway into traffic has been struck by a car and killed. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:16:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2603328 A federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of a man dubbed the &quot;S&amp;M Svengali&quot; and ordered a retrial in a sensational case that involved mutilation and extreme humiliation. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:16:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2597524 Police say a Long Island man running from a truck that was chasing him has been hit and killed by another driver, who was high on drugs. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:09:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2597436 A family member says a Long Island couple's newly orphaned twin toddlers are adjusting well after being told of their parents' death in a plane crash this week. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:01:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2597434 A Long Island man has been accused of violently shaking his four-month-old daughter because her crying interrupted his video game. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:29:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2595562 Police say a school bus carrying 48 children on an outing to a water park has hit a guardrail on the Long Island Expressway. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:47:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2595312 The Nassau County Department of Health has closed the following 21 beaches due to heavy rainfall and&nbsp;as a precautionary measure, effective&nbsp;August 15. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:12:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2594980 A Long Island health department says it has confirmed New York state's first human case of West Nile virus for this year. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:09:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2588813 A Long Island vehicle collision involving a busload of Bronx day campers has injured 11 children and an adult aide. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:23:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2588191 A federal investigator from the National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday began examining the burned wreckage of a plane that crashed into a shopping plaza parking lot in Easton, killing all three on board, an NTSB spokesman said. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:10:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2580298 A grand jury will review the case of a suspected Long Island drug dealer who died in police custody after officers hit him with flashlights while arresting him. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:28:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2579764 Police are looking for whomever&nbsp;beat a 35-year-old mother of two&nbsp;in her Island Park, Long Island home on Monday. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:53:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2574439 A Long Island couple has been charged with stealing more than $90,000 from Medicaid. Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:13:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2568691 A former longtime Suffolk County, N.Y. legislator has been arrested on charges he took more than $10,000 in bribes to help a businessman win a contract to operate a county-owned golf course. Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:03:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2566818 Authorities say an off-duty correction officer working as a bouncer remains in critical condition after being choked by an unruly Long Island bar patron. Fri, 8 Aug 2008 12:04:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2556476 Due to heavy rainfall, the Nassau County Department of Health has closed 10 North Shore beaches as a precautionary measure, effective Friday, August 8, 2008. Fri, 8 Aug 2008 11:12:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2556072 Suffolk County Police&nbsp;were called to a 'Girls Gone Wild' taping in Smithtown early Wednesday morning to investigate a possible sexual assault. Wed, 6 Aug 2008 07:12:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2540304 Better late than never. A 90-year-old Oceanside woman had her graduation ceremony all to herself at Hofstra University on Tuesday, as she received the master's degree she started working toward a few decades ago. Wed, 6 Aug 2008 06:42:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2540167 The dismembered remains of two men&nbsp;who vanished on Long Island two weeks ago have been found, and&nbsp;a Middle Village couple&nbsp;have been arrested in the case, police said Friday.<br /> <i>Mug shots of suspects from Suffolk County PD</i>.<br /> <a href="http://player.play.it/player/player.html?id=90&amp;onestat=wins">LISTEN NOW to 1010 WINS</a> Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:45:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2519168