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KENNETH HERMAN (I) District 2 (Western Suffolk County--Islip; Babylon...
BORN: March 13, 1958, West Islip EDUCATION: Vassar College, B.A., 1980; American U, J.D., 1983 FAMILY: Wife, Patricia; two children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: SUFFOLK COUNTY LEGISLATURE, 1990-92; U.S. HOUSE, 1992- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 5063, Bay Shore...
...PEOPLE SENSED THERE was something wrong in the life of 10-year-old Katie Beers. No one seemed in a position to do much about it. To the neighbors in West Islip, a Long Island suburb, she was the wide-eyed little girl who roamed the streets at all hours, sometimes coatless in the winter. Child- protection authorities had built up a fat dossier on her makeshift family. They knew that sometimes Katie stayed with her unmarried mother in a filthy, roach-infested house where rusted cars and an old refrigerator decorated the lawn. But sometimes...
...Johnson had to be shipped back to America, where he was consigned to a grim state lunatic asylum at Islip, New York. He never emerged from it -- or painted again. The last of his money paid for storage of the enormous, unsorted mass of Johnson's canvases, possessions and oddments. New York museums were not interested, but finally in 1966 the Smithsonian Institution in Washington agreed to house his life's work. Johnson was too far gone to register this; in 1970, still confined in Islip, he died...
...from East Islip tried to get his friends to gang tackle me, but wound up sucking some major league snow himself," Tepedino said a few minutes later with a sinister grin...