Long Island
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The project is part of a Suffolk County project to reduce nitrogen in flood-prone areas.
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Michael Dicpinigaitis was inspired after watching a video of a child with cerebral palsy play with a toy using an adaptive switch.
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N.S. Ramamurthy also helped create a national resource on Indian literature, politics, language and the arts. “He was selfless, completely selfless. No boasting, no ego. Those kinds of people are very rare.”
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Police are seeking help in locating the vehicle and driver that hit the boy, who they say "wandered out of his residence" unattended and made his way to Sunrise Highway.
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The 23-year-old man lost control of his car on westbound Southern State Parkway, struck another car, then crashed into a stand of trees along the shoulder of the road, State Police said.
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June, a month celebrated by poets, students and those self-quarantined indoors.
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An alarming spike in fatal drug overdoses on Long Island is linked to the pandemic, law enforcement and health officials said.
Cost of Living
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First-time home buyers on Long Island are finding creative ways to afford the biggest purchase of their lives.
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A new federal mandate calls for hospitals to post their prices online. But lists of costs show that the medical world speaks a language all its own.
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A record 20 percent of the U.S. population lived in multigenerational households in 2016, according to the latest census data, up 5.6 percent from 2014.
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Suffolk residents said not knowing how to find available doctors was one of the biggest obstacles to obtaining health care.
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LI protests peaceful in condemning police brutality, racism
In one protest, more than 2,000 people of all races and ages gathered in Mineola in front the county's headquarters, calling for an end to institutionalized racism. Read more
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President Donald Trump may lack the credibility he needs to convince Americans he's really steering the U.S. through the latest mega-crisis on his watch.
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Jane Elliott, a former teacher who gained fame after a 1968 anti-racism exercise dividing her third-grade Iowa classroom by eye color, urged Long Islanders to fight racist ideology.
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In one protest, more than 2,000 people of all races and ages gathered in Mineola in front the county's headquarters, calling for an end to institutionalized racism.
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Hospitalizations reached "the lowest level" since the crisis started 93 days ago, the latest figures show. Deaths were also on the decline.
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A county COVID-19 task force projected revenue losses of between $469 million and $590 million just this year.