NASSAU COUNTY CRIMINAL LAWYERS

Dozens of people showed up at the Valley Stream American Legion on Long Island Wednesday to voice their concerns over a plan to close their neighborhood precinct.

State Education Commissioner John King announced this afternoon that he has restored federal School Improvement Grants to five of the 10 high-needs districts whose funding he suspended last month.

Conventional wisdom has it that in the state of New York a motorist must be breaking at least two traffic laws at the time of a crash to be charged with criminal negligence.

A There are four characteristics that define the post-World War Two suburban building boom ushered in by Levittown: explosive population growth, extensive real estate development, broad commercial expansion, and the entry of hitherto blue collar families into the middle class.

If you live in Nassau County, you are more likely now than you were this time last year to be burglarized.

On June 24, 2011, New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo passed a law establishing a tax levy limit on all local governments and most school districts.A This law limits the amount that a school district can raise the tax levy by 2 percent.

"The value of my home went down, so why are my taxes going up?" It's a question that many residents in Malverne and West Hempstead, as well as others throughout the rest of Nassau County, have posed in recent years as they tear open their tax bill and one that will not go away even though the new tax cap is in effect.

Garden City DNA from a discarded cigarette butt left at the scene of a vehicle larceny in the village has led to the arrest of a Brooklyn man police say is responsible for 29 similar crimes throughout Garden City over the course of a five-month period.

Nassau County Detectives have charged a heroin-addicted Bethpage man in connection with two Bethpage break-ins during February.

Nassau's sales tax collection increased by only 1.8 percent in 2011 to $1.03 billion, showing among the most anemic growth among counties statewide, according to statistics provided by the New York state comptroller.