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Newsday.com - Long Island
  • Some Patchogue students see racial tension
    There's a hallway inside Patchogue-Medford High School where only Latino students hang out.



  • Steve Levy speaks out against racism
    Steve Levy for the first time apologized directly to the family of the Ecuadorean man killed in a Patchogue hate-crime stabbing for calling the incident "a one-day story" and urged "people of goodwill" to denounce such behavior.



  • New bills would alert school districts of heroin arrests
    Saying that "a heroin epidemic is emerging in suburbia," Suffolk Legis. Wayne Horsley (D- Babylon) introduced two bills yesterday that would require police to notify school districts if any of their students were arrested on heroin-related charges or if there were heroin-related arrests in their districts, and institute an anonymous texting tip system for the Crime Stoppers program.



  • Cops: Pregnant woman chases down man who robbed her
    A woman who is six months pregnant chased down a Hempstead Village man who had ripped an $800 necklace off her throat, police and the victim said Tuesday.



  • Islip task force tackles incidents of hate
    Facing one another in a wide circle of chairs, about 20 community leaders Tuesday asked themselves: What do we do when the Ku Klux Klan is pamphleting in our town and a man has been killed because of his race in the town next door?



  • In TV speech, Levy adjusts style to respond to slaying
    The challenge for Suffolk Executive Steve Levy in his televised address in the aftermath of the Marc elo Lucero slaying was to reconcile his hard-charging, often finger-pointing style with humane and unifying gestures.



  • Childhood friends return home to bury one of their own
    When Marcelo Lucero was growing up in this impoverished Andean mountain city, he belonged to an informal group of boys who called themselves the "TUNAS."