Steven Schwally, 64, who is homeless, was seated in a wheelchair and wearing a hospital gown as he pleaded not guilty to driving while intoxicated before Judge Bernard Cheng at First District Court in Central Islip. Bail was set at $1 million cash, $2 million bond or $5 million partially secured bond.

In a brief, horrific moment described by witnesses as a "violent explosion," the 37-year-old father of two young children was dead; their mother, critically injured: "We were such a happy family. Now it’s all crushed.

The suspect in Friday’s deadly crash at a Long Island nail salon allegedly drank 18 beers the night before the crash that killed four people and injured nine others, prosecutors said. Steven Schwally,