Long Island

Clergymen arriving at St. Louis de Montfort Church in Sound Beach yesterday morning found several swastikas painted in a reddish-orange hue over their front glass doors.

A 281-foot tanker carrying more than 672,000 gallons of home heating oil that ran aground just off Long Island has been successfully freed, U.S. Coast Guard officials said yesterday.

Hundreds of mourners gathered yesterday evening in Amityville to remember Markus Smith, 6, who was crushed under his school bus last week.

A surveillance video that caught a Ronkonkoma teen firing a gun into a crowded North Amityville party, killing a 14-year-old student, is expected to be the focus of a murder trial scheduled to begin today, attorneys said.

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