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

A blizzard warning for Suffolk County has been issued by the National Weather Service

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

Thousands of students went back to class with their faces covered amid a bruising court battle over whether they must continue to do so during the COVID-19 pandemic. The next step in the court fight looms on Friday.

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The $409 million Suffolk County Coastal Resiliency Initiative project includes three different sewer lines to connect nearly 6,000 homes in Babylon and Mastic and replace polluting septic tanks and cesspools.

The LIRR's annual on-time performance of 96.3% was the highest since the railroad adopted its record-keeping system nearly 50 years ago.

A two-lane bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh early Friday, prompting rescuers to rappel nearly 150 feet while others formed a human chain to help rescue multiple people from a dangling bus.

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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.

 A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to "inappropriate language" and an illustration of a nude woman, according to minutes from a board meeting.

The White House says President Joe Biden warned Ukraine's president Thursday that there is a "distinct possibility" Russia could take military action against Ukraine in February. The Kremlin likewise sounded a grim note, saying it saw "little ground for optimism" in resolving the crisis after the U.S. this week again rejected Russia's main demands.