Officer Christopher Racioppo has been upgraded to fair condition, according to Dr. James Vosswinkel, the head of trauma at the hospital and the Suffolk County Police Department's chief consulting surgeon and medical director.

"Long Island is such an important feeder for New York City," said Chris Heywood, a spokesman for NYC & Company, the city's visitors bureau. "It's still such a natural fit for us."

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"When Sister Francis entered the order in 1931, Herbert Hoover was president and the George Washington Bridge ... had just opened," said spokeswoman for the Dominican sisters of Amityville.

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Nafiah Ikram, 21, said she is recovering but has had difficulty with everyday activities since the attack. Nassau police are investigating, and the reward for information leading to an arrest is up to $20,000.  

The diocese said it will form the nursery-through-eighth-grade school combining two facilities that had served as schools in Deer Park and Central Islip — to be overseen by the Marianist Brothers, who run respected schools such as Chaminade High School.

The Suffolk County IDA, in a 6-1 vote, granted preliminary approval for $760,400 in tax breaks over 15 years to developer Blue & Gold Holdings for an apartment building in Huntington Station.

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The multimedia team's entry, "A Season of Protests," named the winner of the Excellence in Visual Journalism category in the prestigious Scripps Howard Foundation Excellence in Journalism competition for 2020.

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The $439 million project will redirect treated sewage from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant in East Rockaway and help to restore the Western Bays and Reynolds Channel.