Long Island

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"I kept asking can we get there faster," recalled Chelsea Anderson of the birth of her son in an ambulance. "He was not waiting. In the blink of an eye, he was coming. He was ready and I was ready."

The scheme attempts to bilk consumers by offering COVID-19 tests provided by the federal government in exchange for personal and financial information, according to state consumer and health department officials.

Rivera, who died Friday night at age 22, is being memorialized at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Midtown Manhattan — with a wake on Thursday from 1 to 8 p.m.

Patricia O'Hara taught for 37 years, including 23 at the Birch School in Merrick. She incorporated her passion for music and Japanese culture to broaden her students' experience.

Thousands of students went back to class with their faces covered amid a bruising court battle over whether they must continue to do so during the COVID-19 pandemic. The next step in the court fight looms on Friday.

Forecasts call for heavy snow and strong winds from the powerful winter storm, which will begin hitting Friday night, according to the National Weather Service. But the storm track is still uncertain.

The victim, Gerson E. Pineda, 19, of Hempstead, had been missing since 2015. His remains were recovered in July from a wooded area along the Meadowbrook Parkway in Uniondale.

Melville-based H2M architects + engineers was retained to identify restrictions that may cause flooding in the vicinity of Warwick, Plymouth and Chadwick roads.

Bucaria, a state Supreme Court justice since 1995, will head the Nassau Assessment Review Commission. Chiang, a former investment banker, has been appointed county Treasurer.

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When it opens Feb. 5, the library's history room will offer programs, audio recordings, photographic collections and video clips on Long Beach history. The idea for the exhibit comes from an exhibit last summer that showcased the life of Long Beach resident and former Assemb. Harvey Weisenberg.

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Over two days and 700 miles, the convoy will travel from a place where property taxes fund multimillion-dollar fire district budgets to one where some volunteer departments scrape by.

The White House said the president will join the new mayor to discuss the Biden administration's "comprehensive strategy to combat gun crime."

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After more than a year of disruptions, there was a cautious optimism when students and teachers returned to classrooms last fall. Most recently, districts were caught in the middle of the on-again, off-again state mask mandate court battle.

Lawmakers now will redraw election district lines for congressional and state legislative seats that will be used for the next decade.

There are growing concerns among commuters about aggressive and potentially violent homeless people in the transit system, including at Long Island Rail Road stations.