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• Nassau cops reopen 1986 slaying case of Chaim Weiss

  leads.Chaim Weiss was found by an adult dormitory supervisor sprawled across the bed of his single room at Mesivta of Long Island , an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva on East Beech Street, just before 8 a.m. Nov. 1, 1986."It's definitely murder," a police department   Read more »

• U.S. attorney urges faith in face of political corruption

  who is the chief federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn, which also includes, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island ."Stay involved. . . . Don't give up."The crowd of 65 people at the meeting, which was sponsored by the Madison   Read more »

• Officials: Central LI soon free of beetle

  thousands of New York trees, has been eradicated in Manhattan and Staten Island, and officials believe central Long Island will be free of the invasive bug in the next several years."The stakes are high, but make no mistake - we are winning the fight against   Read more »

• Amy Maniscalco, supporter of National Guard families, dies at 37

  suffered a massive stroke last week, according to her husband, Lou Maniscalco. She died late Tuesday at her parents' Staten Island home.Family Readiness Groups help families of troops in combat cope with the worries of those left behind. They are particularly   Read more »

• MTA reopens old South Ferry subway station

  in lower Manhattan on an old platform.The MTA said Wednesday that the No. 1 train will pull into a station near the Staten Island Ferry at 5 a.m. The station was decommissioned in 2009 when the new terminal was opened. The old station was rehabilitated for   Read more »

Around the web

• All NYC Beaches To Be Open Memorial Day Weekend

  in Brooklyn; Rockaway Beach in Queens; Orchard Beach in the Bronx; and Midland, Wolfe’s Pond, Cedar Grove and South Beaches in Staten Island. Officials said more than 40,000 cubic yards of debris were removed from city beaches during the recovery effort. 5:50 PM from The Epoch Times Read more »

• Police Reopening Investigation Into 1986 Murder Of Long Beach Student

  N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) –Police on Long Island are reopening the investigation into a cold case murder of a Staten Island rabbinical student. The Nassau County Police Department will hold a press conference Tuesday on the death of 15-year-old Chaim Weiss. His 11:36 AM from CBS New York Read more »

• Les météorologues américains prévoient une saison des ouragans très intense

  were swept away from the arms of their mother Glenda Moore as she fled Superstorm Sandy floodwaters in New York's Staten Island borough to seek safety with family in Brooklyn. She is married to New York Sanitation worker Damian Moore, and dozens of workers   from The Huffington Post Read more »

• $3.7B in federal Hurricane Sandy funds allocated to city transportation agencies

  ISLAND, N.Y. -- The city's transportation system will be receiving $3.7 billion in relief funds from the federal government related to Hurricane Sandy recovery. The Federal Transit Authority is allocating the funds to repair the system, reimburse agencies   from SILive.com Read more »

• Staten Island filmmaker Geoffrey Celis needs your help to prove 'Some Guys Are Bigger'

  ISLAND, NY -- Concord resident Geoffrey Celis is on a mission to prove "Some Guys Are Bigger Than Others." The self-deprecating filmmaker calls his upcoming short film — about a Morrisey fan named Jim who enters an amateur Luchador competition to prove to   from SILive.com Read more »