Nassau County Comptroller Howard Weitzman released a 16-page report to provide taxpayers with a simplified, easy to follow look at the county's finances. FULL STORY

Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy is confident the U.S. economy will recover from its recession, but things might get worse before they get better as she predicted oil consumers, this winter, may be paying double what they paid last winter. FULL STORY

It was 8:30 a.m. when the first basketball bounced at the courts of Dutch Broadway School on a recent Friday. The occasion was the second annual three-on-three basketball tournament, sponsored by Assemblyman Tom Alfano. FULL STORY