News Nearby: Kings Park Couple Arrested After New Orleans Shooting

From Commack: Wife of Missing Local Man: 'I Just Want Him Home Safe'

It was exactly two weeks ago Friday that Ida Mayer spoke to her husband about planning a trip to Italy and their upcoming Father's Day plans.

That was the last time they spoke before he went missing from their Dix Hills home June 14. The married couple of 18 years have two children in the Commack School District.

From Kings Park: Kings Park Couple Arrested After New Orleans Shooting

New Orleans police arrested a couple from Kings Park on Tuesday after they say the pair was involved in a shooting at a hotel in New Orleans.

Friends of the pair circulated a flyer in Kings Park last week stating the couple was missing and that they believed the two had fled to North Carolina.

According to the Times-Picayune, Kevin Cahill, 29 of Kings Park, tried to kill a 49-year-old Florida man in a hotel room in the Wyndham Garden Plaza Hotel in the Central Business District and also accidentally shot his girlfriend, Sara Mott, 27, of Kings Park, in the foot at about 9 a.m. on Tuesday.

From Three Village: Stony Brook Named Among Nation’s ‘Smartest Cities’

The hamlet of Stony Brook beat out cities such as Berkeley, California, Boulder, Colorado, and East Lansing, Michigan, to come in as the No. 19 smartest city in the U.S. according to a slate of rankings released by Lumosity.com. Lumosity, a company that has developed online tools they claim can train your brain to be "smarter, sharper, and brighter," based its rankings on the geographical location of the IP addresses of more than two million people in the U.S. who took their tests.