Nearby: Wife of 'Missing' Man Says He Made Plans Before Vanishing

Some of the news from around Long Island this week.

The wife of the man who was on Saturday but turned up alive in Florida, says she discovered emails which indicate he was planning his disappearance.

Evana Roth told a packed news conference at her lawyer's office in Carle Place that she thought her husband was dead after authorities searched the beach for hours and found no sign of Massapequa resident Raymond Roth.

Two Halesite Fire Department members helped rescue an Osprey caught on an antenna in Huntington Bay on Wednesday.

Firemen Mike Conforti and Alex Niedziela responded to a call at around 5 p.m. that the bird's foot had become snared in cable wires after it perched on an antenna on a house along Shore Road. Two other Osprey were circling the bird, ready to thwart any perceived threat to their companion. It took about 15 minutes for the firemen and an officer from the Town of Huntington's animal control department to free the bird.

Long Island Rail Road commuters will be able to hang on to their unused tickets a little longer.

The commuter rail line will extend the period for one-way and round-trip tickets to be used as well as their refund periods from one to two months.

Glen Cove has received an allocation of $875,951 in federal funds to build its ferry terminal, the city announced today. 

The funds come from the Federal Highway Administration.

The money will be put toward constructing the LEED-standard terminal building's areas for ticket sales, passenger waiting areas and customer service offices.

Hundreds of men in uniform stood at the mouth of the Long Island Sound to salute their new superior in Kings Point on Monday.

Rear Admiral James A. Helis, USMS, was installed as the 12th superintendent of the .