Long Island public health experts said they expect young children to eventually become eligible for vaccines, and that herd immunity cannot be achieved without inoculating some of them.

A local official says the COVID recovery plan submitted in September has been sitting, but he's still optimistic the recommendations can be implemented.

Police say the 17-year-old hit the woman's car, pushing it into oncoming traffic, where it was hit a second time by a pickup truck.

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Women, especially women of color, are being hit harder than men on the job front, savings front and home front during the COVID pandemic.

The student, Andrew Desiderio, a 21-year-old senior mechanical engineering major, died on Monday, according to a notification posted on the university website.

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The Stony Brook program strives to increase the number of health care providers from underserved and underrepresented minority backgrounds.

Police on Long Island will have access next week to an emerging forensic technique used to help identify unknown murder victims like those in the Gilgo Beach case.

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Nassau County and state officials called on Long Island's 125 school districts to limit property tax increases after receiving $417 million in additional state aid.