5 Patch Headlines Nearby: Feb. 25

East Northport native Virginia Huie is up for over nine NY Emmy Award nominations for her work as a News 12 Long Island reporter and fill-in anchor.

The Westies gang, famous for running loan-sharking and extortion in the tenements of Hell’s Kitchen through the early 1990s, has resurfaced with a scheme that allegedly uses a fleet of private jets to smuggle high-grade marijuana from California to cities across the country, authorities told The Post.

County Executive reported a total of 77 burglary-related arrests in the past eight weeks in Nassau County, including eight arrests that resulted in the closure of 34 burglary cases this year.

Despite that picture, the vast majority of recent Plainview area burglaries remain unsolved, a review of police records indicate.

An unidentified woman was struck Thursday by a man driving a Pontiac Grand Am sedan northbound on Glen Cove Avenue in front of Juicy Burger. The accident occurred at approximately 6:35 p.m.

Suffolk County police have arrested more than 20 people in an undercover investigation called "Operation Massage Parlor" conducted at a number of businesses in the Sixth Precinct.