Long Island
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War dead honored but in different ways
Memorial Day weekend during the pandemic is being commemorated without the parades and large gatherings that have marked the holiday since just after the Civil War. Read more
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Mount Sinai Health System has established a research institute to investigate COVID-19's disproportionate impact on "at-risk" communities in the metropolitan area.
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Lee Genser works as a Nassau prosecutor and is also a volunteer ambulance unit captain for the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department.
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More than 100 acres have burned in Brookhaven and Riverhead towns since mid-April, with officials saying the number of fires is higher than usual.
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A Far Rockaway man sued the village and its police department, saying a 2015 arrest resulted in permanent physical damage.
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Testing at clinics in Nassau and Suffolk that primarily serve low-income minority residents has shown consistently higher infection rates than in the counties overall.
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The Rhode Island Red pullets, which are chickens less than a year old, were taken, farm owner Abra Morawiec said on Facebook.
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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Trump resumed the golf outings he longed for on Memorial Day weekend, but he didn't take a holiday from a marathon of tweet attacks on some favorite targets.
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The Rhode Island Red pullets, which are chickens less than a year old, were taken, farm owner Abra Morawiec said on Facebook.
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New York City residents have taken to the East End since lockdown began in March and are telling city school administrators they may not return.
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Nassau officials hope that by contributing $500,000, the county can qualify for up to $10 million from the New York Forward Loan Fund.
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Final construction of a thermal well to remove soil contaminants at the former Grumman dumpsite will begin as early as Tuesday.
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Dressed in fatigues, Walter Maresco, 75, of Medford, made the 1-mile trek alone, where he stopped at multiple memorials and saluted.