By Mike White 🇺🇸 Aug. 18, 2026

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Weather: It will be mostly cloudy today before gradually becoming sunny with a high near 86 in Hicksville.

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Greater Mineola coverage is funded in part by The Farm Italy — a striking neighborhood restaurant and cocktail bar that brings the simplicity, beauty and seasonal freshness of local Italian dining to Westbury.

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1. Burglars hit iconic Massapequa burger joint All American

🍔 The landmark was temporarily cordoned off with yellow police tape as investigators processed the scene, with a Crime Scene Search Unit van and marked patrol cars stationed in the parking lot.

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2. Community rallies around Long Island man airlifted home from Ithaca

🫶🏻 John Sapienza, known to friends and family simply as “Sap,” suffered a grand mal seizure while visiting a waterfall and swimming hole near Ithaca.

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3. Avino restaurant family takes over longtime Center Moriches favorite

🇮🇹 The Avino family has taken over La Volpe Ristorante & Anton Pizza at 611 Montauk Highway, continuing the restaurant’s longstanding Italian tradition while introducing some new offerings of their own.

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More headlines to highlight

🍕 The Pizzeria in Babylon reopened Tuesday, about a month after a crawl space collapse damaged its pizza ovens, forcing an unexpected shutdown.

🚨 A 73-year-old Hauppauge man collecting bottles for recycling was beaten by three teens in a supermarket parking lot on Tuesday, cops said.

🥖 After years of preparing meals from her home kitchen, Danielle Strafford-Mobarak has opened a new market in the heart of Brightwaters.

👮🏻‍♂️ Suffolk Police made 15 arrests and impounded seven cars early Saturday after a street takeover shut down an intersection in Medford.

💼 The long-vacant — and never ever used — Amazon Fresh building on North Ocean Avenue in Farmingville is in line to finally get a tenant.

🥅 Carolina Hurricanes goaltender and Sound Beach native Brandon Bussi will bring the Stanley Cup to The Rinx in Hauppauge tomorrow, Wednesday. It's the same rink where he played on as a kid.

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In the age of AI, Hunter Business School doubles down on hands-on

Increasingly, inquiries are coming from adults in their 30s and 40s who are considering a career change after working in industries that have seen significant disruption from automation or digital transformation.

Greater Babylon coverage is funded in part by The Argyle Theatre, where Broadway comes to Babylon Village. Click here for tickets to Beautiful running now through Aug. 30.