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	The father of a 14-year-old girl&nbsp;was &quot;infuriated&quot; by a video he says shows his daughter being attacked March 17&nbsp;by other students at Central Islip Senior High School. The school district says&nbsp;the safety of its students is &quot;a paramount obligation.&quot;&nbsp;NewsdayTV&#39;s Drew Scott reports.
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NCPD homicide captain Stephen Fitzpatrick on Friday said Jacob Alvarenga Mejia, 28, was arrested and charged for allegedly stabbing to death one of three men attempting to steal the rims from his SUV at his Bellerose home on May 13.

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Janell Funderburke, 20, who is accused of shooting Suffolk County Police Officer Michael Lafauci in Coram, appeared in court Thursday in Riverhead to be arraigned on a 13-count indictment. NewsdayTV's Cecilia Dowd reports.

Attorney: Defendant 'did not intend to kill' SCPD officer

A federal judge on Wednesday in Central Islip sentenced hip-hop artist Willie Junior Maxwell II, better known as Fetty Wap, to 6 years in prison at his drug trafficking sentencing. NewsdayTV's Cecilia Dowd reports.

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Former FDNY firefighter Joseph Norris pleaded guilty Tuesday to driving drunk in the wrong direction on the Sunken Meadow Parkway in 2020 before crashing into a car driven by Anthony Mariano, a Queens teacher, killing him instantly. 

Former FDNY firefighter pleads guilty to DWI killing of Queens teacher

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James Kousouros, the defense attorney for Amandeep Singh, said his client, who will not personally appear in court Friday, should be freed from jail so he can assist in his defense.

Lawyer for alleged wrong-way driver in crash that killed 2 teens to make case for bail in appeals court Friday

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Andrew Chiaro, 36, allegedly attacked a 15-year-old boy at a Greenlawn skate park after attempting to retrieve a baseball from the teen, Suffolk Police said.

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"You don't have a clue. You voluntarily pled guilty. That was your decision," Justice Timothy Mazzei told Kason Parker, when Parker complained about the plea in his girlfriend's killing.

Judge shuts down protesting murder defendant, calls complaints about guilty plea 'disgusting'

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein has scheduled a June 27 hearing on the potential move, which legal experts have said is unlikely.

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Mary Ortega, 46, will serve three years of probation after admitting she pretended to being a police officer and used a bogus NYPD identification card.

Ex-Suffolk firefighter pleads guilty to impersonating cop

Jordan Viscomi was charged with sexual exploitation of a minor following an investigation by the FBI's Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.

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Jay Bryant, 49, is the third suspect to face charges in the slaying of the hip-hop legend, who was killed in 2002, officials said.

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Nicholas D'Agostino, 20, plead not guilty to charges related to a fatal shooting on a LIRR train in Ronkonkoma in 2022. NewsdayTV's Cecilia Dowd reports. 

Yonkers man charged in fatal LIRR shooting

Suffolk County police officer Michael LaFauci, who was shot by suspect Janell Funderburke in Coram on May 11, left Stony Brook University Hospital on Thursday, NewsdayTV Cecilia Dowd reports.

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Janell Funderburke is accused of shooting Suffolk County Police Officer Michael Lafauci in Coram Thursday. In court Friday prosecutors said the shooting was caught on the officer's body camera and said the defendant's face is identifiable on that footage. NewsdayTV's Cecilia Dowd reports. 

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Suffolk police commissioner Rodney Harrison said officers were conducting surveillance outside a home on Norfleet Lane related to a prior robbery, when the cop was shot by an alleged Bloods gang member. NewsdayTV's Cecilia Dowd reports.

Suffolk County police officer shot in Coram is in stable condition

The Holbrook man convicted of driving drunk into a group of Boy Scouts and killing a seventh-grader is seeking to overturn his conviction. Andrew McMorris' parents and Thomas Murphy's attorney spoke outside of the Brooklyn Appellate Courthouse on Thursday. 

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The lawmaker pleaded not guilty to fraud, money laundering, theft charges in Central Islip Federal Court on Wednesday. NewsdayTV's Cecilia Dowd reports. 

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An ex-employee of Stop & Shop was found guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday in the April 2021 shooting spree at a West Hempstead store that killed a manager and left two other employees severely injured.

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The trial of accused Stop & Shop shooter Gabriel Wilson is in the hands of the jury after Tuesday's closing arguments in Mineola. NewsdayTV's Cecilia Dowd reports.

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Nassau police said Sunday that a dead body was found in the detached garage of a Hempstead home Saturday night after firefighters put out a fire in the structure.

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Suffolk County residents can now report bias incidents to a new hate crime hotline, 631-852-HATE, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced at a news conference Tuesday.

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The store manager testified Tuesday in Mineola in the trial of Gabriel Wilson, the alleged gunman in the deadly 2021 West Hempstead Stop & Shop store shooting. NewsdayTV's Cecilia Dowd reports.

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Bouncer David Cruz was convicted Monday in the death of a bar patron, Jake Scott, who he beat with his fists after using his shirt to cover up a security camera outside a bar in Holbrook last August.

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