Police are investigating a possible hate crime after a trustee running for reelection in the South Country school district said someone defaced one of his campaign flyers with a racist slur and stuck it in his mailbox. 

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Eli Reich has a rare genetic disorder characterized by impaired development and structural brain abnormalities. His parents formed a foundation that is part way toward a $7 million fundraising goal to find a cure.

After the Freeport Fire Department extinguished the fire in the car behind a house on Seaman Avenue, a body was discovered in the vehicle, Nassau County police said.

An independent investigator found Vincent Butera violated district sexual harassment policy with unsolicited hugs and too-frequent visits to a subordinate's classroom, leading to student walkouts and teacher protests demanding his ouster.

Prosecutors said Jamik Cannon, 28, and a co-conspirator opened fire on Demetrius Winfield, 30, and a friend while the victims were talking to each other in front of a home on Wellesley Street in Hempstead. 

Ledecky, mascot Sparky and other team officials went out of their way to visit half a dozen families facing severe health challenges.

"Too many people ... are dying on this roadway and we cannot stay silent," Assemb. Michelle Solages (D-Elmont) said at a news conference.

Meyer spent much of his life involved in fighting for civil rights and social justice. He was one of the founders of an experimental 1960s secondary education program called Friends World College — a school now known as LIU Global.