By Rupert Deedes A murder-for-hire plot has led to the arrest an unlicensed Huntington “Dentist” and two other Huntington residents. The case, which stretches back to a murder in the summer of 2022, was a contract killing meant to silence a whistleblower, according to prosecutors and police. On August 2, 2022, around 1:18AM, the Suffolk County police responded to a 911 call reporting shots fired at a basement apartment in Huntington. Officers found 23‑year‑old Byro

By Rupert Deedes Mob boss John Gotti’s grandson, Carmine Gotti Agnello, an Oyster Bay businessman, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for defrauding a COVID-19 relief program of more than a million dollars in taxpayer funds. The case reflects both the lingering shadow of his family name and the modern forms of financial crime which emerged during the pandemic. Beginning in the early months of the pandemic, between April 2020 and November 2021, Agnello applie

By Nolan Cleary It’s been said by many that the horror movie genre has been on the up side lately. This is captured in recent films, like the body horror of the Academy Award-nominated film "The Substance," and the film "Weapons, which earned an Oscar for Amy Madigan. In some ways it could be argued that the new film "Exit 8" continues that trend. Based upon the independent video game, "Exit 8" follows a man stuck in a portion of a train station in a time loop. Along the wa

By Ishan Shah A massive fire broke out last week at the Big Valley Nursery on Glen Cove Road in Glen Head, drawing a response from more than 150 firefighters. The massive fire erupted at around 8AM, and took over two hours before it was was put-out. Firefighters from Glen Head and Glen Cove responded to the fire. The fire started in a storage building stocked with flammable landscaping and gardening supplies, with the flames bursting through the roof and torching the adjacent

By Steve Levy Shockingly, a new poll shows that 80% of Democrats view Israel unfavorably, while another shows a majority of younger Democrats could be classified as favoring Hamas over Israel in the aftermath of a Middle East war that began when Hamas terrorists murdered 1,100 Israelis on October 7, 2023. It has gotten so bad on the left that even many gay and lesbian Democrats, who would be killed in Gaza for holding hands with their partners, have been joining groups such

By Heather Crosley In 1899, Rudyard Kipling published "The White Man's Burden," in which he urged American colonization of the Philippines and its people. Kipling argued that it was the moral imperative of white man to "civilize" the non-white Filipinos. This exhortation by Kipling to "take up the white man's burden" elevates the white man to a place of moral superiority of a Biblical level, insofar as he evokes Moses leading the Israelites out of Egyptian slavery. Kipli

By Leader Staff The race for the north shore Third Congressional District (Huntington, Oyster Bay, North Hempstead and NE Queens) has just gotten a little more complica ted as attorney Gregory Hach qualified to run a Republican primary against 2024 Nominee and current GOP designee, Michael LiPetri. LiPetri, a former one-term NYS Assemblyman from Massapequa, is 35 years old, and ran as the Republican and Conservative parties nominee against incumbent Congressman, Democrat

By Leader Staff The retirement of NYS Senator Jack Martins created a cascading series of vacancies to fill in north shore legislative districts, and the Republicans have "moved-up" Assemblyman Jake Blumencranz (R-Brookville) to take over Martins' NYS Senate nomination. That created a vacancy for Blumencranz' nomination for NYS Assembly, and local home builder and former Legislature candidate Paolo Pironi was quickly nominated to run for that Assembly seat. The candidaci

When the historic West Side School caught fire on March 10th in Laurel Hollow - destroying the Library and Child Learning Center and causing massive smoke and water damage across the rest of the school building - almost no one expected anything but a massive and prolonged disruption to the school’s 350 students. But the reality shows what a dedicated and creative team by of school administrators can do: Within 12 hours of the fire, Cold Spring Harbor Superintendent Joseph Mon

By Rupert Deedes The Gilgo Mass Serial Killer - Rex Heuermann - has pled "Guilty" to killing eight (8) women victims. He will be sentenced on June 17th. In a plea this past Wednesday before Judge Timothy Mazzei of the Suffolk County Court, Heuermann appeared with his attorney, Michal Brown, to enter the multiple pleas of "Guilty." The families of the victims were in Court for the plea. Heuermann's ex-wife and daughter were also present. Appearing for the District Att