🌱 Missing Cardiologist Found Dead + School Bus Crash On LIE

Welcome back, Miller Place-Rocky Point! Here's everything you need to know to get this Thursday started off right.

First, today's weather:

69 high. Precipitation: 60 percent, humidity: 67 percent, scattered thunderstorms.

Here are the top three stories today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

1. The cardiologist missing from Kings Park has been found dead. Trevor Verga, 45, was found off Piper Lane in Head of the Harbor over the weekend. He was reported missing on March 20, 12 hours after he spoke to a family member. (News 12)
2. On Wednesday afternoon a school bus crashed on the Long Island Expressway near Lake Ronkonkoma. The crash shut down carpool lanes in both directions, but no serious injuries were reported. (Subscription: Newsday)
3. One person was injured in a fire in Mastic on Tuesday evening, Suffolk police said.
   Police responded to a fire at a location on Mastic Boulevard at about 5:20 p.m. after a 911 call. (Patch)

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Today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

• Miller Place schools preschool registration (until April 28) Miller Place Schools.

From my notebook:

• Suffolk police released a video of one of the Gilgo Beach victims for the first time. Megan Waterman is seen in a Hauppauge hotel just before she disappeared almost 12 years ago. (Subscription: Newsday)
• Three Rocky Point Union Free School District educators have been named New York State Master Teachers: Janece Alfredson and Jenessa Eilers and Michael Friscia are now part of the Long Island cohort based at Stony Brook University. (Facebook)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Miller Place: "The condition of the LIE has become absolutely absurd. I don’t know what the best way is to get the results we need to have safe roadways. I’ve emailed and called the town. I’ve emailed Losquadro." (Nextdoor)

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