Kids & Family

April 30: Kids Hurt in Bus Crash, Robbie's Run, Kids Fest Video

The top news from Bellmore-Merrick on this Tuesday.

  1. Two children were injured after a bus crashed at the intersection of Jerusalem Avenue and Bellmore Road at 11:22 a.m. Monday morning, police said. Click here for more.
  2. The eighth annual Robbie's Run raised almost $47,000 for the Robbie Levine Foundation, which was started in memory of 9-year-old Robbie who died in 2005 of sudden cardiac arrest. For more on this, click this link.
  3. A Merrick woman was arrested Saturday after she was allegedly driving drunk on the Meadowbrook Parkway with her kids in the vehicle, cops said. Click here for the full story.
  4. On April 25, Hofstra University awarded computer science major Michael Moskie, a Hofstra sophomore from Bellmore, and his teammate $50,000 as first place prize for their invention of a low cost 3D printer. Click here for more on this.
  5. Many families from Merrick and all around Nassau County enjoyed Kids Fast last weekend, and we have a video of what happened. For more, click this link.

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