The heads of the Association for a Better Long Island, Long Island Association and Long Island Builders Institute said further delays will only "increase the cost to all parties."

"We're always evolving ... and so we wanted to have a seal that is more representative of what actually took place in terms of the origins of the Town of North Hempstead," Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth said.

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Sofia LaSpina became the first female player in LI history to score a touchdown, and the football world took notice.

An 18-year-old driver struck and killed a 40-year-old pedestrian in Freeport early today, according to the Nassau County Police Department.

Through collaborative efforts, this year's piping plover season, which ran from late March until early September, produced a record number of 50 nesting pairs and 70 fledglings, officials say.

Officers first responded at 11:30 a.m. Sunday to a beach in Bayville for a woman who was found unresponsive in the water, and at 1:50 p.m. Sunday to Lido Beach where to a man was found unresponsive in the water, Nassau police said.

A doctor who said he performed an abortion in defiance of a new Texas law all but dared supporters of the state's near-total ban on the procedure to try making an early example of him by filing a lawsuit — and by Monday two people obliged.

The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning the flu cut a much bigger, more lethal swath through the country. But the COVID-19 crisis is by any measure a colossal tragedy in its own right.

President Joe Biden will ease foreign travel restrictions into the U.S. beginning in November, when his administration will require all foreign nationals flying into the country to be fully vaccinated.

A timeline of events leading up to and following the disappearance of Gabrielle Petito, the Blue Point native reported missing while on a cross-country road trip with her fiance, Brian Laundrie.