Fatal Shooting + Cars On Fire At Mall + Long-Lost Siblings

Good morning, people of Five Towns! I'm here with your Monday edition of the Five Towns Daily.

A LIRR renovation project is being delayed due to one Nassau County village refusing to issue needed permits. A fatal shooting in Freeport left a Long Beach man dead. Multiple cars were burned overnight at the Roosevelt Field Mall. And one adopted Nassau woman found four siblings from a DNA test...living in her town.

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First, today's weather:

Rain overnight. High: 85 Low: 70.

Here are the top stories today in Five Towns:

1. News 12 Long Island reports that several unoccupied parked cars burned overnight at Roosevelt Field Mall, in the parking lot of Dick's Sporting Goods in East Garden City. (News 12)
2. Jerry Barmash has the story on a fatal shooting in Freeport on Sunday. 28-year-old James Diamond of Long Beach was killed. Police responded to the call on South Bay Avenue near Ray Street. (Patch)
3. News 12 Long Island also looks at a dispute between the MTA and Garden City that's delaying the LIRR Third Track expansion project. The MTA filed a lawsuit in June saying the village is refusing to issue needed permits. (News 12)
4. Madeline Armstrong talks to an East Rockaway resident who is working to have his father recognized as a victim of 9/11. Dan Caracciolo's father Lawrence Caracciolo, died in 2007 at age 55 from metastatic malignant melanoma, a deadly skin cancer that may have been caused by his work at the World Trade Center site. (LI Herald)
5. Watch this feel-good story about a Massapequa Park woman who did a genealogy test and found out her siblings were her neighbors. Caryn McCabe was adopted and found four of her biological siblings through a 23andMe test, one who lived only two blocks away. (Subscription: Newsday)

Today in Five Towns:

• SHS Parent’s Club 7:15 p.m., South High School, 150 Jedwood Place, Valley Stream
• Hewlett High School Underclassman Portraits, HHS Girl's Pool Lobby
• HHS Senior Planning Night - George W Hewlett High School, 7 p.m.

Five Towns Patch Notebook

• 5th Precinct officers hosted a backpack giveaway at the Dutch Broadway School in Elmont with backpacks filled with donated school supplies. (Facebook)
• Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library will close early Wednesday and Thursday this week. (Facebook)

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