🌱 Fatal Crash Kills Two Teens + Triplets Come Home From NICU

Happy Friday, people of Five Towns! Here's everything you need to know today in town.

Two teenagers were killed in a late night car crash that excessive speed may have caused. A young boy has written two books, and is donating all the proceeds. Domestic abuse rates have climbed in Nassau County since the beginning of the pandemic. Find out why.

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First, today's weather:

Clouds and sunshine. High: 71 Low: 54.

Here are the top stories today in Five Towns:

1. Mike Smollins talks to Joe Petraro, 8, from East Rockaway who has written two children's books and donates the proceeds to good causes. He is now sending funds to help build a well in Nigeria. (LI Herald)
2. Female residents of Franklin Square and Elmont are eligible to schedule appointments at a mobile mammography van outside local bowling alley Dani’s Strike Zone, at 20 Village Ave. in Elmont, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 23. (LI Herald)
3. CBS News has footage of a fatal crash in West Hempstead. Two teenagers were killed around 1 a.m. after a car struck a parked car. The 18-year-old driver is hospitalized. (CBS New York)
4. Long Island Weekly talks to the chef at the Garden City Hotel, David Burke, who has modern menus at the Red Salt Room and the King Bar. (longislandweekly.com)
5. ABC News has a story on triplets who finally left the hospital after weeks. Fraternal triplets Gerardo, Thiago and Axel went home Wednesday from Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre after a long NICU stay. (WABC-TV)
6. News 12 Long Island says domestic abuse rates are still going up in Nassau County. Emergency calls are down since the beginning of the pandemic but experts say it's still an ongoing epidemic. In Nassau the number of recorded victims increased by 130 from 2019 to 2020. (News 12)

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Today in Five Towns:

• No school for high school students, George W Hewlett High School.
• Drive-In Movie Fundraiser, Adelphi Breast Cancer Program, 6:30 p.m., Adelphi University Parking Lot 5.

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• Hewlett is out of the high school tennis semifinals. Manhasset defeated Hewlett 5-2 on Tuesday afternoon. (Long Island Tennis Magazine)

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