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"I left prison 12 years ago but today, for the first time in 40 years, I feel free," Rodolfo Taylor said in Criminal Court in Riverhead.

The number of sales in the Hamptons in the fourth quarter fell by one-third from a year before, with far fewer houses on the market.

1:45

"There's no excuse for shooting at the police," Acting State Supreme Court Justice Patricia Harrington told Duane Costa.

Several dozen attendees gathered at Memorial Park in East Rockaway Village as dozens of lit candles illuminated the scene in honor of NYPD Officer Jason Rivera, 22, who died on the job Friday night in a Harlem shooting, and Officer Wilbert Mora, 27, shot by the same gunman, who succumbed to his wounds Tuesday.

Advocates said a Democratic redistricting plan that the Suffolk County executive vetoed would have created equitable boundaries for the county legislature's 18 districts.

Richard Rosenberg "had a wonderful dry wit, and he was a terrifically nuanced headline writer," said a co-worker at the newspaper.

Nineteen states passed 34 laws limiting access to voting in 2021 and 18 have more restrictive voting bills awaiting the 2022 legislative session, according to the Brennan Center.

A federal judge resentenced "Tiger King" Joe Exotic to 21 years in prison on Friday, reducing his punishment by just a year despite pleas from the former zookeeper for leniency as he begins treatment for early-stage cancer.

Russia said it will not start a war in Ukraine but warned that the U.S. and NATO have ignored its demands and left little room for compromise in the crisis.

1:47

The portrait, which hung in his family home in Mineola before being put in storage years ago, depicts William Piechota in his uniform from decades as a commercial pilot. It's now in the hands of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.