News Nearby: Wife of Missing Commack Man, 'I Just Want Him Home Safe'

Exactly two years after a Brooklyn man stole 30 pairs of jeans from Tanger Outlet Mall and proceeded to get in a high-speed chase with police – resulting in a fatal crash that took the life of a Hauppauge School District teacher – a judge sentenced him to prison on Thursday.

From Commack: Wife of Missing Local Man: 'I Just Want Him Home Safe'

It was exactly two weeks ago Friday that Ida Mayer spoke to her husband about planning a trip to Italy and their upcoming Father's Day plans.

New Orleans police arrested a couple from Kings Park on Tuesday after they say the pair was involved in a shooting at a hotel in New Orleans.

Friends of the pair circulated a flyer in Kings Park last week stating the couple was missing and that they believed the two had fled to North Carolina.

From Three Village: Stony Brook Named Among Nation’s ‘Smartest Cities’

The hamlet of Stony Brook beat out cities such as Berkeley, California, Boulder, Colorado, and East Lansing, Michigan, to come in as the No. 19 smartest city in the U.S. according to a slate of rankings released by Lumosity.com. Lumosity, a company that has developed online tools they claim can train your brain to be "smarter, sharper, and brighter," based its rankings on the geographical location of the IP addresses of more than two million people in the U.S. who took their tests.