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• Officer's split-second choice ended with Hofstra student, suspect dead after home-invasion

  CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME -- In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rebello is shown. Police said Rebello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May ...

• Split-second choice ended with NY student dead

  CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME -- In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rebello is shown. Police said Rebello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May ...

• Officer who fatally shot NY college student along with armed intruder faced harrowing choice

  In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rubello is shown. Police said Rubello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May 17, 2013, during a break-in near t...

• hostage shot by cop in botched rescue

  Tragic Andrea Rebello, 21, was trapped in a headlock by violent Dalton Smith when officers responding to reports of an intruder swooped on her home. As one policeman fired eight shots at Smith, who was wearing a ski mask, Andrea sustained one bullet to t...

• Lacrosse, the Sport of Scholarships

  By Ralph Gardner Jr. Is one ever too old to learn a new sport, to exalt in the art of athletic movement, to play with the ecstatic joy and abandon of a child? Well, actually, yes. That revelation came to me recently when I tried to pick up lacrosse. It h...

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• Andrea Rebello Update: Dalton Smith, home invasion suspect, was praised by parole panel before early prison release

  (CBS/AP) UNIONDALE, N.Y. - Dalton Smith, the parolee shot and killed by police along with a Hofstra University student, won praise from a state parole panel in 2011 before his conditional release from prison. The newspaper Newsday, citing a transcript of...

• Iran candidate list for presidential race

  The president of a New York police union defended an officer who accidentally killed a Hofstra University student during a standoff with an armed intruder, saying Tuesday the only person responsible for the...More >> The president of a New York police un...

• Godfather of sorority girl shot dead by police lashes out at their failure to negotiate with gunman in house

  The family and friends of a Hofstra University student gunned down by police fire following a home invasion on Friday are speaking out. Henrique Santos, the godfather of Andrea Rebello, 21, spoke with the media earlier today and was highly critical of th...

• Questions linger in shooting of Hofstra University student Andrea Rebello

  Hofstra University students gather near the house where another student and an armed intruder were killed during an overnight house break-in next to the campus on Friday in Uniondale, L.I.Associated Press MINEOLA, N.Y. -- As a grieving family prepared fo...

• Hofstra Student Killed by Police Bullet During Home Invasion

  Hofstra student killed: A college student at New York’s Hofstra University was killed by a police bullet during a home invasion. NEW YORK–The college student was being held in a headlock by a masked intruder with a loaded gun to her head, police said. Th...

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