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Nassau DWI Driver Who Permanently Injured Teenager Gets Prison Time: Authorities
A drunk Long Island driver who permanently impaired a teenager in a wreck was sentenced Tuesday, Sept. 29 to prison time, authorities said.
Kelyse Land, 26, of Valley Stream, got two to six years behind bars for the crash, the Nassau County District Attorney’s office said.
Land was traveling on Hempstead Avenue around 11:45 p.m. July 25, 2025, when she crossed over the double yellow line and slammed head-on into a BMW stopped at a red light, authorities said.
Two teenagers inside the BMW were seriously injured, according to investigators. The driver suffered multiple hand and wrist fractur…
Dentist’s Patients Left Scrambling As $300K Medicaid Fraudster From LI Jetted Across Europe: AG
A Long Island man working as a dentist in Queens stole more than $300,000 from taxpayers through Medicaid fraud, authorities said.
Suleman Nasimi, 46, of Hicksville, was arraigned Monday, Sept. 28 on 40 charges for the four-year fraud operation, the New York Attorney General’s office said.
Nasimi operated a dental practice called Tooth Fresh Meadows and pulled the fraud between January 2020 and August 2024, investigators said.
The alleged scheme was pretty straightforward: Nasimi billed Medicaid for dental procedures he never performed, then pocketed the cash and left patients in the cold,…
NY Father Of Five’s Shock Killing Leads To Outpouring Of Support For His Kids
After a New York father of five was found dead in his home last week, the community has launched a fundraiser to support his children.
James M. Clark, 43, was killed by his wife, Christine S. Clark, at their home in Hartford on Wednesday, Sept. 23, according to New York State Police.
“His life was brutally ended at the hands of his wife after years of domestic violence,” organizer Alicia Randazzo, Clark’s sister, wrote in a GoFundMe.
Clark worked at NAPA Saratoga Auto Supply in Saratoga Springs and “will be remembered for his kindness, strength, and the love he brought into the lives of ot…
Nearly 13,000 Lead-Contaminated Water Lines Need Replacement Across Nassau County: Report
More than 12,000 water service lines need to be replaced due to lead contamination across Nassau County, according to a report released Tuesday, Sept. 29.
The 12,904 lead water pipes found in Nassau County were some of the more than 245,000 lead-contaminated service lines that have been identified across New York State, the Rockefeller Institute of Government said in its report.
Meanwhile, Suffolk County only has 16 lead service lines, according to the report. While some 800,000 service lines out of 3.8 million across the state have not yet been analyzed, fewer than 2,000 of those missing l…
LI Dad Killed By Bicyclist In Central Park While Walking To Work: Cops, Campaign
A New York father of two has died following a devastating crash while walking through Central Park on his way to work, according to police and the man's loved ones.
Richard "Richie" O’Brien, of Port Jefferson Station, suffered a traumatic brain injury in the collision Wednesday, Sept. 23 and died Sunday, Sept. 27, according to a GoFundMe campaign launched for his family.
Police were alerted to a collision at approximately 6:35 a.m. Wednesday, involving a bicycle and a pedestrian on West Drive near West 84th Street, an NYPD spokesperson told Daily Voice.
There, police found that O'Brien was…
