Empire Challenge to Benefit Boomer Esiason Foundation -- Well after the last day of school and after graduation commencement ceremonies have taken place, the all-star high school football players from Long Island will face off again. This time it will be against their counterparts from New York City schools in a game played to fight a deadly disease. FULL STORY

The New Hyde Park firefighters were jolted out of their quiet Sunday summer afternoon, at about 4:30 p.m., when the call came in that a car had been hit on the Long Island Rail Road tracks in the vicinity of Covert Avenue in New Hyde Park killing its only occupant Evelyn Haneman, 45, of Elmont, who was driving a 1987 red Nissan. FULL STORY

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System's New Leadership Division's 11th Annual Celebrity Golf Classic, one of Long Island's premier fund-raising events, will be in full swing July 24 at Old Westbury Golf and Country Club in Old Westbury where over 300 celebrities and sponsors are expected. FULL STORY