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A Long Island woman has been charged with hitting her daughter’s soccer coach with a folding chair because he gave her bad directions to a game, the police said yesterday. The woman, Alicia Vigil, 33, of East Rockaway, was arrested at her home on Monday and charged with reckless endangerment, the Nassau County police said. Ms. Vigil’s daughter plays for the Lynbrook/East Rockaway Soccer Club, Detective Frederick Goldman said. He said Ms. Vigil was upset about directions to Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park that the coach had e-mailed to her before Sunday’s game. She is charged with swinging a...

PORT ST. LUCIE — Police are investigating a woman who strangled a neighbor's Rottweiler after it attacked her Yorkshire terrier. Shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday, the 130-pound Rottweiler, named Rox, bolted past owner Rebecca Hartley and grabbed Candy, a Yorkie owned by Robin Bush, in her mouth in the 2900 block of Southwest Ventura Street. Bush said she was in the kitchen talking on the phone while her son, Jacob, 10, took Candy, who weighs about eight pounds, and her Chihuahua outside. "I heard my son screaming and heard a cry from my Yorkie," she said. "It was a God-awful...