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Week in Review: Killer Gets 24 Years, Boyle Calls for Relief Changes
All of the top stories from Lindenhurst over the past week.
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Catch up on the big headlines from the past week below with the top five headlines that got your neighbors' attention this week.
School Board Revises Underclassman Sporting Criteria
The Lindenhurst School Board passed changes to the district's policy on using non-high school aged players on their teams during the Community Forum held last week at Lindenhurst Middle School.
The policy, Number 4870 or "Underclassman Selection Classification," was revised to allow students in the eighth grade to participate on freshman, junior varsity or varsity level teams at Lindenhurst High School.
Drug Arrest on Sunrise Highway
A Lindenhurst man who was riding in a car stopped for a traffic violation was busted after officers found drugs on him, Nassau County police said.
Cops said they stopped a 2001 Toyota after the driver failed to signal a lane change at 1:20 a.m. Wednesday.
Lindenhurst Man Sentenced to 24 Years For Killing Ex-Wife
A Lindenhurst man will be spending the next 24 years in prison after he was sentenced on Wednesday for choking and stabbing his ex-wife to death in 2010.
Muhammet Karadag, a 53 of North Erie Avenue, was found guilty of stabbing and choking his wife on August 29, 2010, as well as setting his Lindenhurst home on fire earlier that evening.
Police: Pedestrian Stuck and Killed in North Lindenhurst
An Amityville man was pronounced dead after he was struck by a vehicle in North Lindenhurst on Thursday night.
Suffolk County Police said Shameek Brown, 21, of Amityville, was crossing New Highway, just north of New Horizon Boulveard, at around 9:50 p.m. when he was struck by a 2007 Nissan traveling northbound on New Highway.
Sen. Boyle Calls for Regulation Changes for Sandy Victims Relief
During a Friday morning press conference in Babylon Village, Senator Phil Boyle (R–Bay Shore) called for politicians at the state and federal level to change regulations imposed on disaster victims preventing those who took out loans in the wake of the storm from receiving grant moneys intended for victims.
While some families are beginning to see checks in the mail from the government through the NY Rising program, many families who took out loans from the Small Business Administration will not be fully covered by the program.
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