LIB2B.com Web News Archive

Long Island man drives through mall (UPI) - A 19-year-old man has been arrested after driving through a highly populated shopping mall in Long Island, N.Y., causing nearly $60,000 in damages.

Teen drives car through Long Island mall; $60,000 worth of damage (Asbury Park Press) - A teenager was facing felony charges today after police say he smashed a car through the entrance of a Long Island mall and drove past screaming shoppers. One woman suffered minor injuries. The teenager also tried to set a fire at a different mall earlier this week, police said. Dwight Thomas, 19, of Amityville, was arrested outside the Westfield Sunrise Mall in Massapequa at around 7 p.m. ...

Waldorf Eighth Grader Wins Gold Medal at Long Island Math Fair (Garden City News) - On April 27, over 600 students from the Long Island area made presentations at the final round of the Al Kalfus Long Island Math Fair held at Hofstra University. Olivia Paone, an eighth grader at the Waldorf School of Garden City, won a gold medal for her presentation on the history, properties and mathematics of the Fibonacci sequence.

Bridge woes: City curbs use of Long Island span (Boston Herald) - A city bridge that is used to shuttle kids to summer camps, AIDS patients to doctors and the homeless to a shelter on a Boston Harbor island has fallen into such disrepair that full buses are banned and...

Car drives into Long Island, N.Y., mall (AP via Yahoo! News) - Many teenagers spend their afternoons cruising around shopping malls, but one young man's jaunt through a corridor landed him in hot water with police.

Police: Long Island woman killed in DWI crash (WABC-TV New York) - There was a horrible accident Tuesday night on Long Island.

Teen in mall drive-through faces charges (AP via Yahoo! News) - A teenager who smashed his car through the front of a Long Island mall, careening 500 yards past screaming shoppers before blasting through an exit, was apparently angry with an ex-girlfriend who worked there, police said Friday.

In 1 door, out the other: man drives through Long Island, N.Y., shopping mall (CP via Yahoo! Canada News) - MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) - Many teens spend their afternoons cruising around shopping malls, but one young man's jaunt through a corridor landed him in hot water with police.

N.C.'s Ocracoke Island named top beach (AP via Yahoo! News) - Move over, Florida and Hawaii. Your beaches are no longer the best. The nation's best place to get a tan and enjoy the ocean's waves in 2007 is North Carolina's Ocracoke Island, a place so remote that even people in the offices of "Dr. Beach" — Florida International University professor Stephen Leatherman — didn't know where to find it on the map.

Car drives into Long Island mall (Fox 19 Cincinnati) - MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) - A 19-year-old New York man has taken cruising the mall to a new level. Police say Dwight Thomas crashed his car through the main glass door at the Westfield Sunrise Mall in Massapequa, New York, last night and kept on driving.