SPOT/BREAKING NEWS

• Smacked: Tropical Storm Irene swamps Long Island shores, upends trees and turns out lights across the region.
• Rare 5.8 Earthquake Rattles the East Coast
  

• From Manicured West Sayville to Medford Pharmacy Massacre: the curious journey of alleged getaway driver Melinda Brady
  
• Riders on the Storm: flying through the eye of Hurricane Earl

• A Smash Opening: up and atom in Europe - and in Brookhaven - as large Hadron Collider fires up
  

• Leah Walsh Murder: husband confesses to killing with painful similarities to 1987 case

• Pope Benedict XVI Visits New York

• Hurricane Katrina

• New York City Transit Workers Strike