The mayor says Greenport would be open to bringing back the parklets next year, but some village business owners want the dining spaces to stay through the fall.

A flash flood watch has been issued for Nassau County for Thursday evening and overnight while there is a "marginal" risk of severe thunderstorms for western Suffolk, the National Weather Service said.

A relatively small number of school systems have posted state-required reports on how they intend to spend federal dollars. A deadline looms, and there are questions about oversight.

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"I am sick and tired of the same dealers being on the same street corners," said Linda Ventura, whose son died of a fatal overdose one day after returning from rehab.

Wyatt, a longtime resident of Sag Harbor and Manhattan, spent decades in journalism. At the New York Daily News, he started as a copy boy in 1965 and became a reporter, editor and music columnist. He also wrote a biography of jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins.

A Freeport woman who drove an estimated 100 mph on the Meadowbrook Parkway while drunk and high last year before causing the crash was sentenced Wednesday to 6 to 18 years in prison.

A shooting at a Tennessee grocery store left one person dead and 12 others injured Thursday afternoon, and the shooter was subsequently found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at the store east of Memphis, authorities said.

"Our policy approach to Haiti remains deeply flawed, and my policy recommendations have been ignored and dismissed, when not edited to project a narrative different from my own," Daniel Foote wrote.

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said boosters should be offered to people 65 and older, nursing home residents and those ages 50 to 64 who have risky underlying health problems.

His spokesman said the problem was the result of a misunderstanding and the transactions were reported on Suozzi's annual financial disclosures.