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On Monday, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced Northrop

Northrop Grumman, Navy agree to $406M cleanup of plume

The defense contractor and the Navy reached a deal in principle with the state that would install a series of new contaminant extraction wells inside and along the edges of the 4.3-mile-long, 2.1-mile-wide Grumman plume.

Newsday sues NCPD to release police discipline records
The department refused to release internal affairs documents, including a report on how officers failed to protect Jo'Anna Bird from the ex-boyfriend who murdered her in 2009.
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Newsday Exclusive Handgun permit applications surge on Long Island
The increase began around March, when the coronavirus pandemic started to peak on the Island, and continued after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked protests, experts say.
Newsday Analysis: Suffolk police stopped, searched minority drivers at higher rates
A Newsday analysis found officers pulled over Black drivers almost four times more often than white drivers, and Hispanic drivers twice as often.
Newsday recommends With NYAW rate hike near, lawmakers try new path to relief
PSC doesn't think the rate increase will be delayed and one state senator calls for review of higher-cost "conservation" rates.
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'They don't tell you anything... Then all of a sudden your mother's dead.'
Crisis, care and tragedy on LI: Behind the deaths at the island’s second largest nursing home
Brookhaven lab and Grumman have plumes. One is shrinking. The other is still expanding.
A plume near Brookhaven lab is shrinking and the contamination is on track to be virtually eliminated. The 250,000 people living near the Grumman plume hope for the same.
Analysis: LI taxpayers on hook for $2.1B in severance pay for public employees
The long-term debt emerged from a tabulation of unused vacation, sick and other paid days off that the Island's governmental workers can cash out when leaving the job.
Newsday recommends 4 men were arrested because of what LI police said. Here’s what videos showed.
A Newsday investigation finds evidence that officers jailed people without cause, used unjustified force and exposed taxpayers to lawsuits. Faith Jessie reports from the studio.
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LI Divided: Read the investigation and watch the documentary
We sent white, black, Hispanic and Asian testers undercover to see if they would be treated equally by LI real estate agents. Many were not.
Watch the 'Long Island Divided' documentary
We sent people undercover to house hunt. They thought agents treated them well. Then we showed them the hidden camera footage and listings.
'I wasn't welcomed to Plainview': The perils of house hunting while black
An agent told one person Brentwood had the “nicest people.” She warned another about “gang killings” there. See how they were told different things.
The privileges of house hunting while white
Serving as gatekeepers to homes, schools and communities, some real estate agents made the key to the front door easier to reach for whites than for minorities.