🌱 Two Teens Die In Crash + Newborn Triplets Come Home

Morning, Merrick! Let's get you started this Friday with everything you need to know going on today in town.

A fatal crash left two teenagers dead and one 18-year-old driver hospitalized. A set of newborn baby triplets are finally going home from a nearby hospital after weeks in the NICU. And a local singing theater group is putting on their first-ever Halloween show.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny. High: 71 Low: 53.

Here are the top stories today in Merrick:

1. CBS News has footage of a fatal crash in West Hempstead. Two teenagers were killed around 1 a.m. after a car struck a parked car. The 18-year-old driver is hospitalized. (CBS New York)
2. Long Island Weekly talks to the chef at the Garden City Hotel, David Burke, who has modern menus at the Red Salt Room and the King Bar. (longislandweekly.com)
3. ABC News has a story on triplets who finally left the hospital after weeks. Fraternal triplets Gerardo, Thiago and Axel went home Wednesday from Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre after a long NICU stay. (WABC-TV)
4. News 12 Long Island said domestic abuse rates are still going up in Nassau County. Emergency calls are down since the beginning of the pandemic but experts say it's still an ongoing epidemic. In Nassau the number of recorded victims increased by 130 from 2019 to 2020. (News 12)
5. Stephanie Banat checks out local theater group Long Island Cabaret Theatre. They are putting on their first Halloween performance at Temple B’nai Torah in Wantagh at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 30 at the synagogue on Jerusalem Avenue. (LI Herald)

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• NMFA Trunk or Treat, Harold D. Fayette, North Merrick UFSD, 4 p.m.
• Drive-In Movie Fundraiser, Adelphi Breast Cancer Program, 6:30 p.m., Adelphi University Parking Lot 5.

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— Jackie

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