While weekly Long Island claims remain well below its nearly 60,000 peak in claims last April, the number of Nassau and Suffolk residents seeking aid remain high.

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The new details of the alleged police assault of Christopher Cruz, which was captured on the police body camera of an officer and resulted in the suspension of two officers, were revealed Thursday during a news conference at the Hempstead office of attorney Frederick Brewington, who is representing Cruz.

The NYPD says disciplinary files for officers going back to at least 2018 will be released next week after an appeals court rejected efforts by cop union leaders to keep the information from the public following the repeal last year of Section 50-a of the state Civil Rights Law.

A report by the state inspector general's office says the DMV wrongly issues unmarked license plates to government officials.

The panel is investigating the death of 8-year-old Thomas Valva in January 2020 after he was forced to sleep in an unheated garage overnight, according to authorities.

Some of the affected veterans had been released from the hospital when diagnosed. VA staffers are continuing to vaccinate eligible veterans by appointment and in walk-in clinics.

Officials said building a landfill to hold incinerated garbage from around Long Island after the town landfill closes was too expensive.

It was the first time since last summer that pending single-family home sales held fairly steady compared with a year earlier, a new report said.