All that was missing was a “Welcome to Freeport” sign, and the city of New Bedford, Mass., could have easily been mistaken for the village. Both communities are located on relatively small bays …
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By Nadya Nataly
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4/26/18
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Part one of an ongoing series. Read parts [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] here.
Curtailing Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, has become a flashpoint in national politics since …
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By Nadya Nataly and Zach Gottehrer-Cohen
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3/9/18
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All of the South and North Shores were under a flood warning and high-wind watch as a powerful nor’easter churned across Long Island Friday morning.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/2/18
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Before Vera Fludd started work at the Nassau County Correctional Center 31 years ago, she feared what might be in store for her.
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By Brian Stieglitz
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2/8/18
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Perhaps no show on American television addresses the perilous times in which we find ourselves more vividly than ABC’s “Black-ish,” which . . .
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2/1/18
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Part 6 of the “Educating the 21st Century Child” series.
Students held the Google Cardboard virtual-reality glasses to their faces on a recent Thursday. “Let’s get ready to …
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By Nadya Nataly
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1/3/18
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Gerard “Jerry” Barbosa, of East Meadow, who survived Japanese warplane attacks while stationed on the USS Raleigh as a gunner’s mate at Pearl Harbor, and the D-Day landings later in …
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By Nadya Nataly and Stephany Reyes
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12/14/17
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FBI officials have confirmed the identities of the murder victims found on Oct. 25 at Cow Meadow Park, at the end of South Main Street in Freeport, and in the woods between Commercial Street in Freeport and Babylon Turnpike in Merrick on Oct. 27.
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By Nadya Nataly
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11/7/17
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Drivers for the Oceanside-based Baumann Bus Company went on strike Monday at 5 p.m., which meant thousands of students in the Baldwin, Freeport and Rockville Centre school districts had to get themselves to school.
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By Scott Brinton and Ben Strack
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11/5/17
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Human remains were found at Cow Meadow Park in Freeport on Wednesday, according to the FBI’s Long Island Gang Task Force and Nassau County police. The discovery follows another recent case in which a Freeport High School teen was found dead in nearby Roosevelt, likely the victim of the notorious El Salvadoran gang MS-13.
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By Nadya Nataly
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10/25/17
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