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Remembering Ellen Jane Hover: Rodney Alcala victim who was Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr’s goddaughter
ELLEN Jane Hover was murdered by Rodney Alcala in July 1977, just two years before his crime spree was brought to an end. Rodney’s crime spree was dramatized in Netflix’s Woman of the Hour, which is set a year after Ellen’s murder when he earned the name: The Dating Game Killer. A tragic murder Ellen […]
Person Hospitalized After 2-Vehicle Coram Crash
It happened around 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, in Coram. A 47-year-old Coram man was riding a bicycle northbound on West Yaphank Road, south of Beach Lane, when he was struck by a northbound 2015 Hyundai Sonata driven by a 48-year-old woman. The bicyclist was transported to Stony Brook University...
Truck driver arrested in fatal Brooklyn hit-and-run: NYPD
Police have arrested the driver of a white box truck accused of a fatal hit-and-run in Brooklyn Friday morning. Victim Marco Gallardo Tirado, 59, was crossing DeKalb Ave. midblock near Wyckoff Ave. in Bushwick when the truck driver struck him around 9:38 a.m., cops said. Medics rushed him to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center located just two blocks away from where he was struck. Gallardo died at ...