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Alone, isolated, LIers find 'long COVID' support group
They survived COVID-19, but are still experiencing fatigue and other lingering effects from the virus. Support has come from an online group started by Stony Brook Medicine.
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Cops: Pedestrian struck and killed in Old Brookville
The victim, 58, was hit around 6:54 p.m. by a 2014 Jeep travelling southbound on Glen Cove Road.
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LI 'Fandalorian' podcasters offer their takes on sci-fi, fantasy action movies
The three friends, "Teachers by Day, Nerds by Night," provide unconventional — and at times, teasing and comical — analyses of movies and trailers.
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Former director for Roosevelt, Lakeview libraries dies at 66
Ruby Lee Boykin ran for library trustee because she believed the board wasn't listening to her fellow staffers. Later, she became director of two libraries in Nassau County.
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Gasoline prices rise on Long Island, AAA says
Prices at the pump in Suffolk and Nassau hit an average $3.39 a gallon for regular gas on Sunday, compared to last year's $2.18 average price, according to AAA.
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Solar farm company sees savings for Southampton ratepayers
A Boston company has been contracted by the town to lease the land atop a capped landfill in North Sea and build a 4.5-megawatt facility that could save ratepayers in the state's Community Choice Aggregation program $2.4 million over 20 years.
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More Blacks leaving Long Island for the South
Long Island leaders said the region's high cost of housing, economics and social inequities are slowly pushing some Blacks to move to other parts of the country, the South in particular.
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No traffic, no problem: Find fall fun without heading to the East End
Fall fun doesn't have to mean a trip out east. Here are some spots west of Riverhead to try this fall.
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Our top high school sports photos: October 2021
Take a look at some of our favorite shots from high school sports fields and courts across Long Island as ...
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Workforce, middle-class homebuyers shut out on Shelter Island
The only one of the five East End towns where no high-density affordable housing developments have been built is working on two new projects to address the need, but there is opposition from those who say "people aren't entitled to live where they want to live."
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Whole Foods opens in Massapequa
Peek inside the grocery chain's first South Shore location.
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Most organ transplants stopped due to COVID-19 last year, often with dire results
At the height of the pandemic, New York's organ transplant system shut down for two months, causing life-and-death dilemmas for hundreds of patients, many from Long Island. Thomas Maier reports.
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'Rampant' fraud cost small firms as much as $79 billion in COVID aid
LI's top federal prosecutor called EIDL grants "catnip for criminals" because they required little documentation from the applicant and were deposited into their bank account within three days.
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An LI cop said a stolen SUV intentionally rammed his car. This video shows otherwise, experts said.
The surveillance video captured the start of a stolen car chase that ended with officers kicking the suspect on a body camera recording.
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6,539 Black people tried to become police officers on LI. Only 67 were hired.
Minority applicants weren’t hired nearly as often as white ones in the past decade, and experts see “clear evidence that it is not the people, it is the process” causing the disparity.
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Nassau, Suffolk concealed court records of alleged police misconduct over last 7 years
Over the last seven years, attorneys representing the two counties have secured so-called confidentiality orders in at least 60 federal civil rights lawsuits that allege wrongdoing by members of the Nassau or Suffolk County police departments, according to the dockets of the U.S. District Court with jurisdiction over Long Island.
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LIPA: Customers face 'considerable risk' as storm season approaches
LIPA wants PSEG, which operates the Long Island grid under an $80 million-a-year contract, to conduct another test of all the systems at once, during regular business hours.
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Gabby Petito's parents speak out on Australian TV
"He went home, he's hiding. He used her credit card," said Petito's mother, Nichole Schmidt, said on "60 Minutes Australia." "Either way you look at it, he's a coward," said her father Joe Petito.
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Man killed in hit-and-run crash on LIE, Suffolk police say
A North Babylon man was killed in an early morning Sunday hit-and run crash on the Long Island Expressway near Brentwood, Suffolk police said Sunday.
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More Blacks leaving Long Island for the South
Long Island leaders said the region's high cost of housing, economics and social inequities are slowly pushing some Blacks to move to other parts of the country, the South in particular.
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Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, Bruce Blakeman answer LIers' questions ahead of election
Posted October 15, 2021
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Susan Orlean talks about her new book, ‘On Animals’
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Sayville residents renew efforts to block proposed Greybarn apartments
They held a recent rally and plan another in late October to oppose the proposed four-story buildings for the luxury housing complex, which they say are too tall for the surrounding residential community and would generate more traffic.
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2 more Long Island deaths from COVID-19 as total tops 9,700
State data submitted to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows there have been at least 9,764 Long Island deaths from the virus — 5,055 in Nassau and 4,709 in Suffolk.
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More Blacks leaving Long Island for the South
Long Island leaders said the region's high cost of housing, economics and social inequities are slowly pushing some Blacks to move to other parts of the country, the South in particular.
