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Economy squeezes Long Island's middle class
olivia.winslow@newsday.comToni Scarcella, 27, of Kings Park is a Long Islander to her core. Born in Brookhaven, she spent her early years in Medford before the family moved to East Meadow, where her parents still live. She and her husband pay $1,700 for a two-bedroom basement...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Wages and Pensions, Dowling College, Long Island, Health Treatments
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State lawmakers split on no-fault divorce bill
kathleen.kerr@newsday.com;New York State's divorce laws starred in a summer soap opera for three weeks in a Central Islip courtroom, as Christie Brinkley battled her husband, Peter Cook. In excruciating and embarrassing testimony, she showed why they should be divorced,...Tags: Family, Garden City, Upper House, Kemp Hannon, Parliament
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Medford man arrested on drug, weapons charges
joseph.mallia@newsday.comA Medford man was ordered held without bail on drug and weapons charges following a four-month investigation by the Suffolk County Sheriff's office, law enforcement officials said. Kenneth Simmons, 35, of 22 Audubon St., was arraigned Monday on a weapons...Tags: Police Arrests, Drug Trafficking, Crimes, Police, Weaponry
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Fire districts put private lawyers on public payrolls
sandra.peddie@newsday.com eden.laikin@newsday.comWhen Gordon Heights residents mobilized to fight the high taxes they pay for fire service, they were stunned to discover that the fire district's attorney, William Glass, was on the payroll. They complained that taxpayers in Long Island's most...Tags: Public Employees, Accounting and Auditing, Contracts, Labor Legislation, Employees
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Classrooms without walls
christina.hernandez@newsday.comOn a Friday last month so blustery that umbrellas provided little shelter from the chilling rains, several William Floyd High School students elected to spend the morning outdoors. They sloshed through the mud of the Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge...Tags: Animals, Nature, Yaphank, Clubs and Associations, High Schools
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Suffolk cops arrest 2 in Medford over illegal fireworks
erik.german@newsday.com andrew.scharff@newsday.comPatriotic pyrotechnics of July 4 are still more than a month off, but it seems the season for fireworks busts is already here. When Brookhaven Town code enforcement officers saw two men unloading what looked like fireworks into a Medford home yesterday,...Tags: Town of Brookhaven, Central Islip, Pennsylvania, Police
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'American Idol' star Kevin Covais sings in Medford
pat.burson@newsday.com"American Idol" alum Kevin Covais, the teen balladeer from Levittown, performed for about 700 students at Tremont Elementary School in Medford Tuesday, in a concert that rewarded the children for helping to raise the most money for a new diabetes center...Tags: Patchogue, American Idol, Television, Elementary Schools, Michael Buble
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Medford man files complaint over religious statue ban
jonathan.starkey@newsday.comA Medford man said he filed an official complaint Thursday with the state Division of Human Rights regarding his condominium complex's policy against residents displaying religious statuary in common areas. Peter Kelly, who lives at Country Pointe at...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Sculpture, Minority Groups, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Human Rights
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Catholic League urges condo residents to file complaints
jonathan.starkey@newsday.comThe Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights Tuesday urged residents of a Medford community affected by a potentially unlawful ban on religious statues to file a complaint with the New York State Division of Human Rights. William Donohue, president...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Coram, Minority Groups, Freedom of Religion, Justice and Rights
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Condo resident to file complaint over religious statue ban
Newsday Staff WriterA Medford man said he plans to file an official complaint today with the state Division of Human Rights regarding his condominium complex's policy against residents displaying religious statuary in common areas. Peter Kelly, who lives at Country Pointe...Tags: Laws, Tourism and Leisure, Coram, Freedom of Religion, Justice and Rights
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'Grey's Anatomy' Star Gets Hitched
Zap2It.comEllen Pompeo has finally committed to her own real-life McDreamy. The "Grey's Anatomy" star and her fiance, record producer Chris Ivery, quietly tied the knot at City Hall in Manhattan on Friday, Nov. 9, reports People. The news was broken by Pompeo's...Tags: Television, Patrick Dempsey, Achievement Records, Human Accomplishments, Manhattan (New York City)
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