🌱 Man Threatens Police With Knife, Shot + Elder Scam In VS

Welcome back, Five Towns! Let's get this day started. Here's everything you need to know today in Five Towns.

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny and breezy. High: 60 Low: 43.

Here are the top three stories in Five Towns today:

1. A man was non-fatally shot after allegedly threatening Nassau police detectives with a knife Saturday afternoon in Copiague. Police were interviewing the 39-year-old man outside his residence on Buchanan Drive for another incident. (News 12)
2. A Queens woman was arrested in Valley Stream after trying to trick an 84-year woman into sending her money. The victim was first contacted by a male who claimed to be a Best Buy Geek Squad worker. (News 12)
3. A Hofstra report shows almost 52.8 percent of Long Island's public school student body is minority, but full-time minority teachers are only 9.5 percent of the workforce. An upcoming increase in retirements may change these numbers, experts say. (Subscription: Newsday)

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Today in Five Towns:

• FECC "One" PARP Kickoff, Hewlett Woodmere School District
• "The Keeper," Film Screening, Jewish Sports Heritage Association and Temple Israel, Lawrence, 9 a.m.
• SEPTA PTA Meeting,WEC, Hewlett Woodmere School District, 9:30 a.m.
• Hewlett Elementary School Grade 5 Talent Show, Hewlett Woodmere School District, 7 p.m.
• Hewlett High School Graduation/Senior Prom Parent Meeting, Hewlett Woodmere School District, 7 p.m.

From my notebook:

• Police are asking the public's help to find a shooter who shot a man in Long Beach on the 400 block of East Broadway. The victim was found in vestibule of 425 E. Broadway around 2:30 a.m. and the shooter is described as a Black male wearing a black hoodie. (News 12)
• The Woodmere Vol. Fire Department was dispatched to a reported car fire on Wood Street on Friday and managed to extinguish the fire. (Facebook)
• A 7,800-square-foot historic mansion in Long Beach is on the market for $6.9 million — a record for a listing in the city. (Subscription: Newsday)

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— Jackie