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Spencer, a physician, was arrested Tuesday after he attempted to trade oxycodone pills for sexual favors with a woman he thought was a sex worker, Suffolk County prosecutors said.
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Gary Melius said that he has taken back his application to Huntington Town to construct 90 condominiums on the castle's front lawn.
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Cops: Man faces rape charges connected to girls, 13
The Bohemia man, 20, "had sexual contact" on separate occasions with two girls he met on Snapchat, Suffolk police say.
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Macy's said Santa Claus won't be greeting kids at its flagship Manhattan store this year due to the coronavirus, interrupting a holiday tradition started nearly 160 years ago.
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The public hearing, in the aftermath of Newsday's investigative series, "Long Island Divided," addresses discrimination against Black and Hispanic homebuyers with a task force set to offer recommendations by year's end to reduce the problem.
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Sara Lombardi, 16, began a grassroots campaign that raised more than $1,000 to fund the garden at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, where her mother is a physician assistant.
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The Hempstead Police Reform and Reinvention Committee will hold its first meeting next week in response to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's June executive order mandating reform among 500 police departments statewide.
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Newsday analysis: Suffolk police stopped, searched minority drivers at higher rates
A Newsday analysis found officers pulled over Black drivers almost four times more often than white drivers, and Hispanic drivers twice as often. Read more
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NuHealth, which runs Nassau University Medical Center, "cannot continue operating as it currently does," a report commissioned by the financial control board says.
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A Stony Brook resident was expecting a record low bill after his power was off for 14 days in August; he got the opposite.
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Far from a solution to its massive deficit, Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Patrick Foye suggested borrowing the federal funds would only buy the agency more time.
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A quirk in federal law allowed Hempstead Town $133 million in CARES Act money, while Nassau County got only $103 million. The county argues it should get some of the town's funding.
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The state has taken more actions to enforce COVID-19 rules than the two Long Island counties, with a small percentage of local cases involving violation of social distancing and mask-wearing rules leading to court summonses and potential fines for businesses.
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Some of the options include the highest fare increases in seven years, cutting Long Island Rail Road service by 50%, and shuttering more of the railroad's ticket offices.
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Patients isolated inside. Loved ones kept in the dark. See how COVID-19 ravaged LI’s second-largest nursing home.
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Only beer is excluded from the sale, which started today at the Fresh Food Supermarket in Oakdale.
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Cops: Man faces rape charges connected to girls, 13
The Bohemia man, 20, "had sexual contact" on separate occasions with two girls he met on Snapchat, Suffolk police say.
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Gary Melius said that he has taken back his application to Huntington Town to construct 90 condominiums on the castle's front lawn.
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The hearing scheduled for December 21st at the federal court in Central Islip would see both federal prosecutors and defense attorneys question Singh before U.S. District Judge Joan Azrack.
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At least 19 workers at an Islandia factory have tested positive for the coronavirus in the past two months, and one man died, union officials said.
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In an August Facebook post, Martha Gillette wrote that the Confederate flag is a "Southern thing made to be a race thing but it's not," which prompted the town's NAACP president to demand her resignation.
