The reason Lisa Raspanti says she took a job at Carousel Day School last year was so she could be close to her daughter, Olivia, when she started day care there. more


03.30.09 - DMV cites bus drivers at Hicksville school (Newsday)

Police and state investigators dispatched by the Nassau District Attorney's office Friday found that seven out of ten bus drivers at the Hicksville school where a child choked last week were not licensed to drive buses, a District Attorney spokesman said. more


09.16.08 - Gal's Toxic Visine Tea - Cops to "Dropping" Roomie (NY Post)

The Long Island woman who poisoned a housemate by putting eye drops in his iced tea - a dirty trick depicted in the hit movie "Wedding Crashers" - was sentenced yesterday to three years' probation for the sickening assault. more


02.19.08 - AG Cuomo Starts Investigation into 5 LI Districts (Newsday)

State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo yesterday started an investigation, parallel to an ongoing federal probe, into possible financial misconduct at five Long Island school districts, issuing a subpoena for records at the Hauppauge law firm of Ingerman Smith, according to a spokesman for Cuomo and an attorney for the firm. more


02.20.08 - FBI, IRS get Suffolk Attorney Reich's Records (Newsday)

A housing squabble at a North Bellmore residence escalated until one tenant poisoned her roommate with eyedrop medication, causing him to vomit and bleed from his rectum, and then provoked his two dogs into a fatal fight, Nassau police said yesterday. more


12.06.07 - Cops: Housemate Saw Red in Visine Poisoning (Newsday)

A housing squabble at a North Bellmore residence escalated until one tenant poisoned her roommate with eyedrop medication, causing him to vomit and bleed from his rectum, and then provoked his two dogs into a fatal fight, Nassau police said yesterday. more


11.09.07 - Yale Alum, Enron Foe Campbell is New U.S. Attorney (Newsday)

Benton Campbell, a boyish looking 41-year-old Yale grad, returned to his old stamping grounds on Long Island and in Brooklyn recently when he was named the new U.S. attorney for the Eastern District. more


10.17.07 - Second Arrest in Farmingdale Supplement Scheme (Newsday)

A second person has been arrested on charges involving a dietary supplement that, though it helped boost male sexual performance in many cases, was not exactly what was advertised, according to officials. more


9.20.07 - Feds Crack Down On Stock Lenders (Forbes)

The Feds are moving on their long-promised crackdown on abuses in the murky world of stock lending. more