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13 Injured In LIRR Derailment, Service Disrupted: 'Everybody Got Pretty Shaken Up' 13 Injured In LIRR Derailment, Service Disrupted: 'Everybody Got Pretty Shaken Up'
13 Injured In Lirr Derailment, Service Disrupted: 'Everybody Got Pretty Shaken Up' Over a dozen people are injured after a Long Island Rail Road train derailed leaving New York City. The derailment happened at around 11:10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 3, as the eight-car train was traveling east of the Jamaica, Queens station at 175th Street and 93rd Avenue, according to MTA officials. “It appears to be all eight cars of the train derailed,” MTA Chairman Janno Lieber told reporters. Officials said 13 people were injured, two of them seriously. All of those injured were in stable condition and were expected to recover. It was not immediately clear what caused the derailment, tho…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Man Beat Girlfriend For 30 Minutes Before She Died Outside Shirley Skating Rink, DA Says Man Beat Girlfriend For 30 Minutes Before She Died Outside Shirley Skating Rink, DA Says
Man Beat Girlfriend For 30 Minutes Before She Died Outside Shirley Skating Rink, DA Says A 34-year-old homeless woman was brutally beaten at the hands of her boyfriend for nearly half an hour before she died outside a Long Island skating rink, prosecutors said. The alleged killer, 32-year-old Oscar Morocho-Morocho, of Shirley, was formally charged with manslaughter in Suffolk County Court on Wednesday, May 24, in the death of Ruth Para-Martinez. According to the Suffolk County DA’s office, Morocho-Morocho became angry with Para-Martinez on the evening of Sunday, May 7, and began to “publicly and violently” beat her outside the Gr8skates skating rink in Shirley, located on The G…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Man Nabbed On Long Island With Stolen Gun, Drugs, Police Say Man Nabbed On Long Island With Stolen Gun, Drugs, Police Say
Man Nabbed On Long Island With Stolen Gun, Drugs, Police Say A man was arrested on Long Island after he was allegedly nabbed with several bags of marijuana and a stolen handgun. Tevon Montgomery Crooks, of Jamaica, Queens, was arrested a little after midnight on Friday, Dec.10 when he was stopped for a defective rear plate light in Woodmere, Nassau County Police said. According to detectives, officers from the Bureau of Special Operations spotted a black 2011 Nissan Maxima with a defective rear plate light stopped at a traffic light while exiting the parking lot of 253-01 Rockaway Boulevard.  Officers conducted a stop on Rockaway Boulevard at B…

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by Kathy Reakes
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ID Released Of Man Found Dead Off Meadowbrook Parkway ID Released Of Man Found Dead Off Meadowbrook Parkway
ID Released Of Man Found Dead Off Meadowbrook Parkway The identity of a man found dead off a stretch of the Meadowbrook State Parkway on Long Island has been released. State Police said that at approximately 9:38 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 16, road workers discovered the body wrapped in a tarp in the tree line of the parkway southbound ramp to M7 West (Babylon Turnpike). The victim has been identified as James Graham, 37, of Jamaica, Queens. A gunshot wound was discovered and the death is being investigated as a homicide. The investigation is active and being handled by the New York State Police Major Crime Unit in conjunction with invest…

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by Joe Lombardi