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Police Hunt For Hit-And-Run Driver Who Killed Long Island Mother
Erika Strebel, 27, was standing next to her Jeep, which had run out of gas, on the shoulder of Montauk Highway around 9 p.m. Saturday when she was struck.
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Erika Strebel, 27, was standing next to her Jeep, which had run out of gas, on the shoulder of Montauk Highway around 9 p.m. Saturday when she was struck.
A woman was killed, and a man was injured, in a hit-and-run crash on Long Island this weekend.
Investigators said Thomas Herman, 46, slammed into five cars on Montauk Highway on Jan. 13 before crashing head-on with a car, killing the driver and critically injuring the passenger.
Officers located Taylor in Blue Point as she ran from her car with her 8-year-old child and two grandchildren, ages 4 and 6, police said.
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Michael Grasing, 31, of Babylon, had a blood-alcohol reading nearly four times the legal limit of 0.08 in the June 24 crash on Montauk Highway in Lindenhurst, prosecutors said.
The incident began when an officer tried to pull over the alleged stolen Maxima for a traffic violation around 3:40 a.m. Tuesday on Montauk Highway in Bay Shore, police said.
Michael Grasing's blood alcohol level was .30 about 90 minutes after slammed into a car driven by 18-year-old Brittney Walsh on Montauk Highway around 10:25 p.m. Sunday, investigators said.
Michael Grasing was driving westbound on Montauk Highway when he rear-ended Brittney Walsh's car causing it to overturn and strike a utility pole, Suffolk County police said.
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NYC's unsettled weather continues today, with rain showers in the forecast through Thursday.
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New York's weather calls for a cloudy day Monday, with rising humidity and increasing shower chances.
Humidity levels will climb and temperatures will reach the mid to upper 80s in the Tri-State Area on Sunday.
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Humidity levels will climb and temperatures will reach the mid to upper 80s in the Tri-State Area on Sunday.
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The situation for a NYCHA tenant has gone from bad to worse after ankle-deep water inundated her Brooklyn apartment during a storm.
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