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Tri-County Bazaar's 'TikTok Queen' draws an audience — and shoppers — to Levittown

With wand and a tiara, Oceanside's Schindler gives shoppers, and her social media followers, the royal treatment.

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Why doctors worry LIers may not try the new mRNA flu shot

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With Long Island home prices at or near record levels, some LIers are turning to modular homes as an alternative. NewsdayTV's Doug Geed and Newsday business reporter Jonathan LaMantia have the details. Credit: Newsday Studios; Newsday / Howard Schnapp; File Footage

'They really have it down to a science' With Long Island home prices at or near record levels, some LIers are turning to modular homes as an alternative. NewsdayTV's Doug Geed and Newsday business reporter Jonathan LaMantia have the details.

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North Fork downtown closer to revitalization with key hotel approval

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The MTA says it's 'kinda chic' to take the LIRR. Commuters have thoughts.

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Newsday InvestigatesCould the Gilgo Beach serial killer be tied to cold cases from the 1990s?

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Man dies after boat capsizes in waters off Captree State Park

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Ex-hospital officer claimed to still be on the job to get out of traffic tickets, DA says

Peterson Jules denied the charges and said they were retaliation after he reported that one of the Suffolk officers who pulled him over was acting strangely.

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Vietnam vet collects his Purple Heart 58 years after he was shot helping a wounded comrade

Daniel Knote also earned a Bronze Star Medal for his service in Vietnam. But due to a paperwork mistake, the Purple Heart was not listed in his military files — until now.

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Only in NewsdayICE presence once again growing on LI, as arrests rise nationwide

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Three LI men bike 3,900 miles for the puppies

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New brewery opens in LI village

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Lawmakers make surprise visit to Nassau jail as law banning ICE-county agreements looms

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East Hampton residents fear exposure to toxic water

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Port Washington sets sight on Little League regionals

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Another raccoon tests positive for rabies

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Family-run seafood restaurant closing after 49 years

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LETTERSNassau County should repay red light ticket fees

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Legendary Connetquot HS three-sport athlete dies at 49

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Killing of Marcelo Lucero subject of human rights commission hearing

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Patchogue creates ride-share drop off spots on Main Street

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Man riding e-bike killed in Riverhead crash

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Apparent fish kill at Cold Spring Harbor beach, DEC says

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Walt Whitman artifacts on display at his birthplace museum

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Judge sentences LI man in 'senseless' backyard shooting death of unarmed father

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LI village weighs code change to revive decades-old development project

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Development near popular LIRR station eyes 20-year tax break

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Man killed on LIRR tracks near Syosset

Suffolk woman contracts rare disease known as rabbit fever from cat bite

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Only in NewsdayState warns library: Come into compliance or trustees could be removed

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WWII-era grenade found in Bethpage home's basement

Only in NewsdayNassau awards $730G in new legal contracts to Blakeman's campaign finance chair

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LI police fired after internal investigation

LI police were fired after videos showed them kicking a handcuffed man and lying about a crash, newly obtained records reveal. NewsdayTV's Shari Einhorn reports.

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