Shirley

A Long Island mom was nabbed by Suffolk County police Monday after allegedly leaving her one-year-old son alone in the car for more than 40 minutes, while she went inside their home to smoke marijuana. Karen Edelman, 43, was charged with endangering...

SHIRLEY, NY -- A grateful shoplifter has returned the favor to a New York convenience store owner who showed him compassion during an attempted robbery earlier this year. It all started in May when Mohammad Sohail was closing his Shirley Express...

Food Network Magazine -- magazine, who knew? -- names the tastiest breakfast in every state in the July/August issue that hits newsstands next week. "Food Network Magazine traveled to every state in the country, looking for the one breakfast you......

A key figure of mayoral control over New York's schools offered to support Mayor Michael Bloomberg's bill to extend his authority over the city's public schools--on the term that City Hall fires the principal of a Queens school where her daughter is...

A Long Island man is under arrest for making 31 false 911 calls over the past three weeks, and Suffolk County police believe he is responsible for up to 300 more phone calls. The stream of calls to 911 began on August 31, when the system became...

When Federated Department Stores Inc. announced Tuesday that it would change the name of Marshall Field's stores to Macy's, more than 1,500 people e-mailed the chicagotribune.com message board. Here are some of their comments: It's hard to fathom why...

George Perle, the American music theorist and scholar who was widely regarded as the composer who put a human face on atonal music, has died. He was 93. Perle died Jan. 23 at his home in New York City after a long illness, according to his wife, Shirley....

"Boston Legal" is bulking up its cast for the 2007-08 season, adding multiple Emmy winner John Larroquette to the oddball group of attorneys at the firm of Crane Poole & Schmidt. The show has also made Christian Clemenson -- who won an Emmy last year for...

TELEVISION COVERAGE: The network news channels (ABC, CBS, NBC) will offer nightly prime-time coverage of the convention from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. The cable news channels (MSNBC, CNN, Fox) will broadcast live from Denver and offer round-the-clock coverage....

MASTIC, N.Y - Police in Suffolk County have arrested three people in connection with spray painting at least 40 cars with racist graffiti, including messages targeting President-elect Barack Obama. The suspects, all of whom reside in Shirley, were...

SHIRLEY, N.Y. -- Two police officers and a woman were injured in a car crash on Long Island.      The cruiser collided with a box truck in Shirley at the intersection of William Floyd Parkway and Flintlock Drive Saturday afternoon.  Police say they...

An overlooked stay in the city NAACP founder Du Bois was Morgan Park resident -------------------- The life of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, the civil rights leader, scholar and one of the five founders of the National Association for the...