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Long Island doctors praised the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's decision Thursday to recommend a third vaccine shot for high-risk people who'd already received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

The district attorney's office said in a letter that Oyster Bay Deptuy Town Supervisor Gregory Carman Jr. solicited political contributions from town employees based on salary information in possible violation of the town ethics code, but it did not find sufficient evidence to charge him with a crime.

While COVID-19 has overshadowed flu concerns, doctors say it remains a serious annual health issue, especially as more people return to work, schools conduct in-person instruction and restrictions are relaxed.

Ettore, a black-and-tan cat, lost three pounds and suffered some bruises while he was lost at Kennedy Airport after escaping the baggage area, his rescuer said.

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The legendary Jets quarterback was so impressed with LaSpina's accomplishment, he invited her to have a catch.

The governor says she is sticking hard to a Monday deadline when health care workers in state-run facilities must be vaccinated against the coronavirus, and she's coming up with contingency plans in case some resist.

The U.S. Department of Justice said Sergei Polevikov, an analyst for an asset management firm, used a trading account set up in his wife's name to make trades that earned him more than $8.5 million in illicit profits.

A Freeport woman who drove an estimated 100 mph on the Meadowbrook Parkway while drunk and high last year before causing the crash was sentenced Wednesday to 6 to 18 years in prison.

Peter Brown had a flair for heroics — helping to pull a toddler from a cesspool and removing the umbilical cord from the neck of a baby he helped deliver.

FDR Services Corporation fired seven workers in April after they followed the state's stay-at-home order for symptoms related to COVID-19, officials say.