Long Island

PASSINGS: Bernard Waber

2013-05-21 22:04:00

Bernard Waber, 91, the author of such children's favorites as "The House on East 88th Street" and "Lyle, Lyle Crocodile," died Thursday at his Long Island, N.Y., home after a long illness, according to a statement from his publisher, Houghton Mifflin...

Jodi Arias asks jury for life term; deliberations begin

2013-05-21 16:28:00

PHOENIX — Jodi Arias begged jurors Tuesday to give her life in prison, saying she “lacked perspective” when she told a local reporter in an interview that she preferred execution to spending the rest of her days in jail. Standing...

Hundreds attend funeral for Hofstra student shot by police

2013-05-22 14:07:00

NEW YORK -- Hundreds of mourners packed a church Wednesday for the funeral of a 21-year-old university student accidentally shot by police responding to a break-in at her home, which her uncle says could have been avoided if the officer had tried to...

Botched robbery leads to N.Y. student's death -- by police

2013-05-20 15:30:00

It wasn't like the movies. Seven of the police officer's bullets hit the robber. An eighth hit a hostage, Andrea Rebello. Both were killed, and a standoff was over. The repercussions, however, had just begun. The death of the 21-year-old Hofstra...

Oklahoma tornado: Hospital 'code black' before flood of patients

2013-05-21 13:02:00

The injured children came into the Children's Hospital at the Oklahoma University Medical Center in Oklahoma City fast. So fast that the hospital set up a triage center in its own facility. "Every once in a while, a trauma trickles into the emergency...

Dr. Joyce Brothers, famed TV psychologist, dies at 85

2013-05-13 15:56:00

Dr. Joyce Brothers, a psychologist who became a pop-culture fixture after she turned to radio and television in the late 1950s to tend to the nation’s psyche, has died. She was 85. Brothers died Monday in New York City, publicist Sanford Brokaw...

Dr. Joyce Brothers dies at 85; popular TV psychologist

2013-05-13 20:12:00

Fame was never her intent, Dr. Joyce Brothers often said. She was not yet 30, new to stay-at-home motherhood and struggling to help her husband stretch his pay as a medical resident when she came up with an ambitious plan: Transform herself into a...

Early terrorist in U.S. condemns today's jihad

2013-05-16 07:00:00

WASHINGTON — Long before Sept. 11, the war on terrorism and two pressure-cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon, a young Muslim from Egypt walked into the ballroom of a New York City hotel and shot to death an outspoken Jewish rabbi. El Sayyid A....

Baz Luhrmann's 'Gatsby' hears hip-hop where Fitzgerald heard jazz

2013-05-04 06:00:00

Baz Luhrmann didn't want to answer the question. "I can't really say it about myself," he said. "But yes, I do." The Australian director behind this month's hip-hop-inspired adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" had been asked if he thinks his movies...

Web campaign to build a Tesla museum succeeds in purchasing lab

2013-05-09 14:51:00

The campaign led by Web cartoonist The Oatmeal to buy Nikola Tesla's last laboratory and turn it into a museum honoring the scientist has succeeded in purchasing the property. Matthew Inman, the artist behind The Oatmeal, put up a comic strip announcing...

Radioactive tuna from Fukushima? Scientists eat it up

2013-05-08 16:24:00

Marine biologist Dan Madigan stood on a dock in San Diego and considered some freshly caught Pacific bluefin tuna. The fish had managed to swim 5,000 miles from their spawning grounds near Japan to California's shores, only to end up the catch of local...

'The Great Gatsby' is so right, and Leonardo DiCaprio is so wrong

2013-05-11 00:00:00

What's to live for? The price of wine continues to skyrocket, and Warren Buffett is now tweeting. What's next for us culturally? Bingo night at the Louvre? Meanwhile, the criminal justice system insists on hammering on poor Lindsay Lohan. It's only a...

With hearts of palm and roasted mushrooms, served in foam with crisp corn kernels.

2013-05-23 10:01:55

Lufthansa flight attendants Jutta Kaemmerer, seated left, and Mascha Junge being served by Pan Am's Jerry Rand and Gertrude Vasel at the Pan American World Airways stewardess school in Long Island circa 1960.

2013-05-16 10:40:00

Premieres: Sunday, June 2 on Bravo Why we're watching: Bravo, recognizing that it can't count on its Housewives forever, looks to a new group of women to bring the drama: the pampered princesses of Long Island.

2013-05-13 22:17:00