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State University of New York students using on-campus facilities will be required to test negative for COVID-19 within 10 days before they leave campus to head back home for Thanksgiving break, SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras said Tuesday.
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The owner is $15,000 behind on taxes and refuses to allow required access to a local civic group and a global nonprofit to work on an anti-erosion plan, an official said.
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Long Islanders lined up Monday armed with folding chairs, books and hot coffee, up to three hours before more than two dozen early voting locations opened their doors, elections officials said.
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Newsday's Faith Jessie speaks to Long Island millennials about how the student crisis is impacting their vote in the upcoming Presidential election.
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The German discount grocer's eighth store on Long Island will open tomorrow in Oakdale.
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The new shop features doughnuts made of cake and those of yeast — all with over-the-top names to boot.
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NYPD: LI man charged in death of woman found in Queens
The woman's body was found along the Horace Harding Parkway in Bayside early Friday by an MTA bus driver, the NYPD said.
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Republicans overpowered Democrats to install President Donald Trump's nominee days before the election and secure a likely conservative court majority for years to come.
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Marisa Florio knew her prognosis wasn't good. Her doctor pitched 40 straight weeks of chemotherapy and immunotherapy to fight the stage 4 breast cancer.
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Amid the pandemic, pest proofing may matter more than ever, since people are spending more time at home and are likely to generate more trash, experts say.
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Officials aggressively pushing for people to get flu vaccine, avoid 'twindemic'
"We have to remind everyone that there are 20,000 to 40,000 deaths from the flu every year" across the U.S., said Dr. Mark Jarrett, Northwell Health's deputy chief medical officer. Read more
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Sunday's hospitalization total of 1,059 was an increase of 44 over the previous day. The daily statewide positivity rate overall stands at 1.45%.
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The easing of COVID-19 restrictions, some schools and businesses reopening, and low ridership on the LIRR are some of the reasons.
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COVID-19 has reordered academic life for Samantha Mack and thousands of other Long Island students. Mack worries that her final year of high school will not have a prom or traditional graduation.
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Life after COVID-19 can lead to prolonged ordeal of symptoms
"I've been perfectly healthy for the majority of my life," says Gary Degrijze of Bellport. Months after his hospitalization for COVID-19, he still can't grasp a coffee cup handle. Read more
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Since there's no football in the fall thanks to COVID-19, locals were invited to the Elite Five NYC Football Showcase.
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Love, war and ghosts: Explore the tragic love story of the Long Islander who just might have changed the course of American history.
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Voting on Long Island shouldn't be this frustrating
It's been inspiring to see this mass affirmation of what it means to be a citizen of this country. But it shouldn't be this frustrating.
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Eliminating bias in policing on Long Island
From the fall of 2018 through the spring of 2020, Black drivers in Suffolk were 4x more likely than white motorists to be pulled over.
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Suffolk voters must turn the ballot
Three propositions are up in the county in November.
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Vote with your head, not pocketbook
Reader letters to Newsday about how people vote, pro-Trump parades and more.
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Absentee ballots and when states will count them create a big unknown for the reporting of final results.
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Long Island is again in the spotlight for State Senate races.
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Even the president weighed in, tweeting encouragement to Long Island backers just nine days before Election Day.
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"At long last, democracy in town government," said Assemb. Phil Ramos (D-Brentwood). "This is a historic milestone that empowers a community of color that has been neglected for years."
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Inside the art of extreme pumpkin carving with LI artists
Long Island's "Halloween Wars" artists show how you can carve your own.
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The menu draws from the cuisines of the Philippines and El Salvador, the birthplaces of the two owners.
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The event will be ticketed and by reservation only.
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The "Drive 'N Drag Halloween" show features "RuPaul's Drag Race" stars.
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Halloween falling on a Saturday with a full moon is a rare occurrence meant to be celebrated.
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"Boo" isn't the only sound that conjures up spooky thoughts of Halloween. There's also "Hoo."
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It's a pandemic-era way to mark the holiday, with built-in social distancing and an element of surprise.
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The aquarium is celebrating with treats and penguins dressed in costume.
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A federal judge denied President Donald Trump's request that he be replaced as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit alleging he raped a woman in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
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Police shot and killed a 27-year-old Black man on a Philadelphia street after yelling at him to drop his knife, sparking violent protests that police said injured 30 officers and led to dozens of arrests.
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California prepared for another round of dangerous fire weather even as crews fought a pair of fast-moving blazes in the south that critically injured two firefighters and left more than 100,000 under evacuation orders.
