Roosevelt, NY

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• Hempstead Town officials to rally for annual Lindbergh flight day

  Edward Ra (R-Franklin Square) intends to submit a resolution calling for the designation. Lindbergh flew to Paris from Roosevelt Field on May 20, 1927, the first solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight.Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray, town tax receiver Don Clavin   Read more »

• Free prostate cancer tests in Roosevelt

  sponsor a free prostate cancer screening event Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Roosevelt Library, 27 W. Fulton Ave., Roosevelt.The program is open to all Nassau County men with or without health insurance. Screenings will include a prostate-specific   Read more »

• Roosevelt school board member faces misconduct charges

  Education Department spokesman had no comment Wednesday on the district's investigation. The state's 11-year oversight of Roosevelt, the only district ever taken over by New York State, is to end next month, and control gradually has been returned to a locally   Read more »

• Cops: Driver's license suspended 201 times

  to a traffic stop that resulted in a driver with 201 suspensions on his license being placed under arrest Monday evening in Roosevelt , police said.Marion Williams, 59, of 130 Stevens St., Roosevelt , was arrested after the stop on southbound Park Avenue at   Read more »

• Police: Roosevelt man shot man in buttock, forearm in Hempstead

  Roosevelt man was arrested on Saturday after Nassau County police said he shot another man in the buttock and forearm as the victim walked along a Hempstead street on Friday morning.Police said the 49-year-old victim was walking on Margaret Court in Hempstead   Read more »