🌱 Nurse Steals Fentanyl + Rapper Assaults Woman + HS Sports

Up and at 'em, Five Towns! It's Wednesday, so let's get you started with everything you need to know going on in town today.

A Nassau woman pleaded guilty to stealing fentanyl from North Shore University Hospital. Rapper Flavor Flav is accused of domestic battery. Valley Stream Central won a football game. And a new kitchen superstore opened in Nassau County.

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First, today's weather:

Warm with plenty of sunshine. High: 75 Low: 59.

Here are the top stories today in Five Towns:

1. Jerry Barmash reports that rapper and LI native Flavor Flav was arrested for domestic battery in Nevada earlier this month. The former Public Enemy member was born in Roosevelt. He's accused of pushing a woman. (Patch)
2. The Daily Voice writes that kitchen megastore Wren Kitchens opened a location in Hicksville at 2993 Hempstead Turnpike.(Daily Voice)
3. A former nurse from Merrick pleaded guilty to illegally possessing fentanyl. North Shore University Hospital nurse Melissa Frame, 37, allegedly stole more than 1,400 vials of fentanyl from the Manhasset hospital. (Subscription: Newsday)
4. The LI Herald has an update on Valley Stream Central football's win last Saturday with six touchdown drives in a 41-21 victory. (LI Herald)
5. Garrett D. Uribe writes that two-time defending conference champion Mepham's girls volleyball team is currently in second place just behind Conference A/C3 nemesis Valley Stream North. (LI Herald)

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Today in Five Towns:

• Temple Israel Lawrence, virtual "How to Research and Document your Family History," with Nolan Altman, Jewish Genealogy expert, 7:30 p.m.
• CC PTA Meeting, WEC, Hewlett Woodmere School District, 9:30 a.m.
• Senior Portrait Retakes, Hewlett High School Girl's Pool Lobby, 3 p.m.
• Hewlett-Woodmere Board of Education Regular Meeting, Woodmere Middle School, 8 p.m.

Five Towns Patch Notebook

• Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library is hosting a teen escape room. Registration is open now. (Facebook)
• Nassau County Police Department is hoping for tips concerning an August homicide of a woman in Hempstead. Call 1-800-244-TIPS. (Facebook)

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— Jackie

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