Residents of Bedford Avenue in Merrick have taken legal steps against the Long Island Rail Road after workers removed every tree from a thicket of foliage between their homes and the railroad tracks.
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By Brian Stieglitz
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3/2/17
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In August 2015, Matthew Goodison-Orr, a third-year Hofstra University law student, began working with Gary Port, a West Hempstead resident, attorney and U.S. Army veteran, on a pro bono legal case: A marine had suffered a brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder while on duty in Iraq, and never received treatment from the military after he requested it. He began to self-medicate with marijuana, and was kicked out of the Marine Corps after a urine test.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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12/13/16
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A public meeting will offer homeowners information about pressing their Hurricane Sandy-related claims with the Federal Emergency Management Administration, which is reviewing Sandy claims following allegations of insurer fraud.
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8/5/15
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After Hurricane Sandy struck, engineers visited thousands of damaged homes on the South Shore to evaluate the damage and determine whether the storm had caused structural damage — decisions that were critical to the process of finalizing how much money insurance agencies would pay out to their clients.
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By Matthew Rachek
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7/22/15
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A North Merrick woman, Jena Sowinski, was one of three whom authorities arrested in late October and charged with filing fraudulent claims with the Federal Emergency Management Agency for disaster assistance funds after Hurricane Sandy.
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By Brian Racow
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11/8/13
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Many South Shore homeowners are breathing easier thanks to Governor Cuomo’s decision last week to use money from the N.Y. State Housing Recovery Program to compensate those whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Sandy, but whose flood insurance claims were rejected by FEMA because the damage had been caused by “earth movement” rather than directly by floodwaters.
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10/10/13
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Q: Yesterday my mother was walking on the sidewalk in front of a store in New York City and tripped and fell on a raised portion of the sidewalk and was injured. What should I do?
A: The first …
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By Michael Napolitano
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4/18/13
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Q: My husband and I own and operate two businesses: a restaurant located in Nassau County and a florist in lower Manhattan. I understand that the number of sex discrimination and harassment …
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By Joni Haviva Kletter
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3/19/13
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More than four months after Hurricane Sandy, many homes along the South Shore remain in shambles. Countless businesses still have not reopened.
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3/7/13
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Hurricane Sandy attacked without mercy, leaving more than a million Long Islanders without power and wrecking tens of thousands of homes near the shoreline. Then a second disaster struck.
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12/13/12
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