🌱 Trial For MS-13 Gang Murders + Helping Local Man With Cancer

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

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny and breezy. High: 53 Low: 38.

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

1. A young woman accused of luring five young men into the woods in Central Islip, where four were killed by MS-13 gang members, went on trial Monday. Leniz Escobar, a.k.a. "Diablita," is charged in connection with April 11, 2017, murders. (News 12)
2. Motorcycle clubs attended a fundraiser in Yaphank Sunday to help a Selden man with cancer. Mario Biganini Jr., 31, is diagnosed with spinal sarcoma. The fundraiser at the Red River Inn in was to help Biganini pay medical bills and to donate to cancer research. (News 12)
3. The Jazz Loft is hosting a "Swing Into Spring Festival," throughout the village of Stony Brook today until Sunday. There will be live jazz at locations including The Jazz Loft, local restaurants and a candy shop. (Subscription: Newsday)

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Today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

• HS Shared Dec Meeting, Rocky Point High School, 2:15 p.m.

From my notebook:

• Suffolk County Police Third Squad detectives are seeking help to locate a Central Islip girl who has been missing since Feb. 26. Allison Zavala left her home, at 62 Wheeler Road, at 1:35 a.m. (LongIsland.com)
• An effort to clear clogged Nissequogue River tributaries in Smithtown was an attempt to reduce mosquitoes and fix chronic basement flooding in the area. Workers spent 1,000 hours clearing 3.7 miles of the Northeast Branch and side streams from Blydenburgh Park south to Bow Drive in Hauppauge. (Subscription: Newsday)
• Rocky Point High School Senior Class President Quentin Palifka was honored by Sen. Anthony Palumbo with a certificate of recognition for his efforts to share how to save lives with the STOP THE BLEED program. (Facebook)

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