Jackson Heights

Grilled-pork pho: It's what's for breakfast

2012-07-19 16:39:19

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George Vujnovich dies at 96; leader of daring World War II rescue

2012-05-01 00:00:00

In 1944, as head of the Office of Strategic Services in Bari, Italy, George Vujnovich guided a team of agents who worked with Yugoslav guerrilla leader Draza Mihailovich to airlift more than 500 airmen from a makeshift runway carved on a mountaintop in...

Department of Defense List of Unaccounted Navy Personnel

2001-09-13 00:00:00

PENTAGON UNACCOUNTED NAVY - Yeoman Second Class Melissa Rose Barnes, 27, Redlands, Calif. - Information Systems Technician Second Class Kris Romeo Bishundat, 23, Waldorf, Md. - Electronics Technician Third Class Christopher Lee Burford, 23, Hubert, N....

Latest Confirmed Casualties and Missing Persons in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

2001-09-15 19:57:00

The following is a list of confirmed dead as of Monday. List compiled from sources including Pentagon websites, New York Coroner's Office, and Times wire services, by Times researchers Cary Schneider and Kent Coloma and Times staff writer Myrna Oliver....

Seminole school-stadium repairs become top priority

2013-04-29 17:50:09

SANFORD — Repairs to high-school-football stadiums have leapfrogged atop the Seminole school system's priority list, outranking several leaky roofs and failing air-conditioning systems that the School Board has complained it cannot afford to fix....

Officers from LI arrest suspect in Queens elevator robberies

2013-04-27 00:24:03

Two NYPD anti-crime officers from Long Island are being credited with quickly nabbing the suspect in a series of elevator robberies in Queens. The plainclothes officers -- Jonathan Torres of Brookhaven and Nam Jou Kim of Smithtown -- were responding...

Seminole names top school employee

2013-03-26 12:45:00

Ivette Garcia has been named the Seminole school district's School-Related Employee of the Year for 2013. Garcia, who has worked for the district for the past 17 years, serves as a secretary in the Department of Exceptional Student Support Services....

Graham Tire gets approval for 2nd location

2013-02-04 21:55:00

�The Aberdeen City Council gave the go-ahead Monday for Graham Tire to open an agriculture and truck tire operations facility at 1805 S. Roosevelt St. �That location, which is east of Aberdeen Central, is the same one that came before Aberdeen voters on...

City Council agenda

2013-02-02 22:27:00

�The Aberdeen City Council will meet for a work session open to the public at 4 p.m. Monday in City Council chambers with the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce Leadership Class. �The council's regular session will follow at 5:30 p.m. in the courtroom on...

Superstorm Sandy scares away Halloween

2012-10-31 17:17:00

Children in New Jersey will have to wait for Halloween this year after Gov. Chris Christie signed an executive order postponing trick-or-treating and other holiday celebrations across the state. Executive Order 105 will postpone Halloween activities...

Area kids’ bus safety posters are winners

2012-10-17 21:33:28

Pride & Culture On Display For Queens' Ecuadorian Parade

2012-08-05 18:39:00

Every year, pride takes center stage at the Ecuadorian Parade on Northern Boulevard in Jackson Heights. And this year, was no different. "We're out here showing our Ecuadorian pride. Pride from where we come from," said Stephanie Marquez, 22, of Queens....

Homicide suspect Luis Montero of Jackson Heights , N.Y.

2012-06-22 07:40:59

Luis A. Montero, 41, of Jackson Heights, N.Y., has been charged in the homicide death of his girlfriend, Marjorie "Margie" Reyes, 38, of Bethlehem.

2011-05-16 07:41:00

Stephen Slogar, (left) of Jackson Heights Middle School in Seminole County , gives Benjamin Rice, from Creekside Middle School in Volusia County , a high-five Thursday, March 25, 2010 after Rice won the 51st Spelling Bee, sponsored by the Orlando Sentinel in Orlando, Fla.

2010-03-25 00:00:00