By Rupert Deedes Director of the US Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Lee Zeldin came back to Long Island last week to cheer one of the great successes in local environmental rebirth – the Oyster Hatchery program being run by the Town of Oyster Bay. Decades of commercial over-harvesting had left Oyster Bay harbor ecologically diminished. But the steady reversal of that story is now underway. Zeldin, the former Long Island congressman who now leads the EPA, was joi

By Nolan Cleary In the 1992 animated film Aladdin, there is a now-famous scene where the genie, voiced by Robin Williams, while granting three wishes, sets restrictions. He prohibits wishing for more than three wishes, he prohibits wishing to bring others back from the dead, and finally, he prohibits the wisher from wishing for another person to fall in love with. The potential consequences of this last wish are perhaps best explored in the movie "Obsession" - now in theatr

By Mark Demetropoulos A Honduran man who stalked, shot and murdered a Huntington man behind the One Stop Deli in Huntington last month was arrested by US Marshals in Alabama, after he tried to flee to Mexico. The shooter – 27 year old Carlos Castro – shot 43 year old Steven Rocco behind the One Stop Deli in Huntington located at 150 West Pulaski Road. According to police, a surveillance camera behind the One Stop Deli captured the event involving Castro and Rocco. The two m

By Leader Staff A n Iranian national residing in Roslyn has pled "Guilty" to running a human trafficking ring that smuggled dozens of aliens into the United States - including a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard - a terrorist organization. He also pled guilty to receiving and having pornography on his mobile phone. Sharon Gohari received tens of thousands of dollars in payments from Iranian nationals seeking to enter the United States illegally. Gohari would arrange and fa

By Leader Staff Two teens - aged 16 and 17 - were arrested Friday afternoon, after they assaulted two drivers in Bayville. The incidents started in Stehli Beach in Bayville, when the two assailants were tossing garbage and trash onto the ground. A 38 year old man asked the teens to "Stop Littering" and the teens responded with a rush of profanity, according to police. The teens then assaulted the man with a lacrosse stick and a baseball bat. The man then tried to driv

By Steve Levy In one of the most alarming developments in the history of the American educational system, a Marxist movement spearheaded by the radical leftists controlling the Chicago Teachers’ Association funded school buses to transport students to participate in protests and rallies supporting a communist agenda and attacking the sitting president. This is not an exaggeration. This is a blatantly illegal act by the mayor of Chicago and his supporters in the teachers’ un