Valerie Cincinelli is accused of plotting to have her estranged husband and the teenage daughter of her boyfriend killed.

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A new state monitor's plan for Hempstead schools recommends dozens of improvements, ranging from expanded college-prep instruction for students to new contracts for teachers.

Nicknamed "The Long Island Express," Smith won relay gold at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles.

The contract, approved Monday by the Nassau County Legislature will run retroactively from Jan. 1, 2018 to June 30, 2026.

John Gleeson's family said in a 2015 federal lawsuit against Nassau County, its jail and ex-jail medical vendor, Armor Correctional Health Services, that he was denied competent and necessary care.

Paul Bonny, 34, was charged with second-degree murder in the Nov. 9 killing of his wife, Cathiana, 35, after which he shot and wounded himself, Suffolk police say

Etienne Allonce, 56, who had been a federal fugitive for 11 years, was sentenced for his role in a multimillion-dollar health care fraud scheme. He already has been in custody for 26 months.

A microcluster is a geographic zone with a "concerning increase" of COVID-19 spread, according to state officials, and those hot spots are coded by color to signal the degree of spread.

Food bank officials plan to provide tens of thousands of turkeys for holiday meals during a year when record numbers of Long Islanders have turned to their food distributions out of economic necessity brought on by the pandemic.