Sang Lan, the Chinese gymnast who was critically injured during a practice session at the Goodwill Games last week, continues to make slow but steady progress in recuperating from a partially separated spine at the Nassau County Medical Center in East Meadow, though her doctors are still unsure whether she will ever walk again. FULL STORY

In our area, there are fewer elected officials better known than Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy. National and international media coverage, a television movie based on her life and countless articles in newspapers and magazines have chronicled her story as a mother and nurse who after personal tragedy ran for office and won a seat in the United States Congress. FULL STORY

"You picked a busy morning for a visit," Hall of Fame trainer Phil Johnson said the other morning as he surveyed the scene transpiring outside his barn. FULL STORY