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What a historic El Niño year means for LI
The climate pattern, expected to peak by December and last through the summer, could become one of the most intense in decades.
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Hofstra, faculty union agree to contract extension to keep classes in session
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Public housing wait times ... High school cancels football season ... Nepal flood survivor speaks ... Tracking scattered storms ... Hollywood hits the Hamptons
Nassau wants state to foot near $2M bill for county's financial watchdog
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Kalshi bans ex-Congressman George Santos for life
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Ex-clown sues LI entertainment company over lost wages
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LI utility service company to lay off 43 workers
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Port Jefferson drops varsity football team days before the season
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Man from Queens describes surviving Nepal flash flood; Long Islanders still missing
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Massapequa's Brian Baldinger analyzes the NFL with signature style
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Longtime Stony Brook U. professor dies at 91
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37-year-old pedestrian killed crossing Suffolk street
Road to recovery continues at Atlantic Beach club after tornado
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Halpin is out campaigning for Congress, at an age when most are retired
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Car crashes into Deer Park home, driver charged
Medford man faces charges after fatal crash that killed Holtsville man
James Baldassarri was in a parked car in Middle Island when it was struck by a 2017 Ford Taurus driven by Noah Slusser, police said.
Guilty plea in wrong-way, multivehicle crash that injured five
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Mastic man pleads guilty to sexually abusing 3 children inside LI store
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LI man charged with DWI after crashing into Suffolk police vehicle
Public housing wait times ... High school cancels football season ... Nepal flood survivor speaks ... Tracking scattered storms ... Hollywood hits the Hamptons
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NY to track 'red-meat allergy' alpha-gal cases caused by tick bites
Advocates, who noted more than a dozen states track alpha-gal cases, applauded the change.
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Single-family homes or apartments? Suffolk GOP leaders disagree on affordable housing
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No longer 'at the mercy of insurance': LI nonprofit empowers special needs kids with adaptive gear
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The Honey Deuce has some competition from the new Moet Serve as the U.S. Open drink of choice
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Town staff member who coordinated food pantry services dies at 71
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Oyster Bay in talks to buy site touted as key to waterfront 'transformation'
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1 hospitalized, 7 displaced after fire in LI home
Woman killed crossing street in East Farmingdale
New WTC memorial honors Port Authority workers killed in attacks
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Tow captain pulls blazing boat away from fuel, other vessels
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Sag Harbor, itself a Hamptons destination, wrestles with its retail identity
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LI fishermen feeling impact of decline in bunker fish harvest
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'This is the best': salsa festival brings Caribbean flavor, rhythmic sounds to LI
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LI's drought eases in most places with heavy summer rains
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Family of missing LI man desperate for word from Nepal
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LI man charged with DWI after crashing into construction zone, causing fuel spill
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Babylon program offers a lesson in the importance of growing native plants
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Village forgives church it had cited for Christmas tree fundraiser
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1 person hospitalized after fire at LI nursing home
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Video shows people going into LI manhole amid 'underground scavenging' trend
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Town approves plan to have police keep tabs on ICE
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2 from LI on religious pilgrimage missing after catastrophic Nepal floods
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LI homeowner sets up Dolly Parton light show
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Late-night fire closes LI liquor store
1 girl, 23 arrested in 2 states: Inside LI's hidden world of drugs, sex trafficking
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32 killed in crashes in one of LI's deadliest months. Here's the devastating impact.
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Nearly 6,000 LI households could face homelessness if Trump cuts Section 8 funding
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Out East: All the buzz at the Hallockville Museum Farm
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That time a 'monster' washed ashore in Montauk
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The Sandbox brings food trucks to Oyster Bay
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LI hockey dad beats cancer
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Turtle-sniffing dogs searching LI woods to help protect a species
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Out East: Home on the free range at Browder's Birds
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Picture This! That time the stars came out in Westbury
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LI Works: Where's the beef? Ken visits a butcher shop
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LI Works: Ken goes against the grain at Bullfrogs Woodworks
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Making ice cream at Coyle's in Islip
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