🌱 Shooting At Green Acres Mall + Cab Driver Shot By Cop Gets $2M

Welcome back, Five Towns! Here's everything you need to know to get this Wednesday started off right.

First, today's weather:

Intermittent snow and rain. High: 36 Low: 35.

Here are the top three stories today in Five Towns:

1. A shooting happened at the Green Acres Mall just after 4:30 p.m. on Monday. One person was found with a gunshot wound and was transported to the hospital and police are investigating. (Patch)
2. Nassau County will pay a cab driver $2 million to settle a lawsuit from a road rage incident in 2011. Thomas Moroughan, the driver, was shot by off-duty Nassau police officer Anthony DiLeonardo, who was drinking. (Subscription: Newsday)
3. Gas prices are almost at $5 per gallon on Long Island, due to the war in Ukraine. A gallon of regular gas on LI averaged $4.34 on Tuesday. (News 12)

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Today in Five Towns:

• Board of Education Budget Session and Work Meeting, WEC, Hewlett Woodmere schools, 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.

From my notebook:

• Nassau County Police Department shares pictures of subjects wanted for felony and misdemeanor criminal offenses in Nassau County. (Facebook)
• Hewlett-Woodmere Public Schools is now on Instagram. (Facebook)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Broadway: "I'm looking for a tutor for my son who is in the ninth grade at Lawrence High School. He is having trouble with geometry— recommend a tutor for geometry?" (Nextdoor)

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• Beating the Odds, The Al Rosen Story Film Screening (March 14)
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— Jackie