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Getting his first Major League win was a “dream come true” for Seaford’s Sean Nolin, who recently earned a call-up with the Oakland Athletics. Nolin, in just his fourth big-league game and his second start of this season, earned the milestone victory in his team’s 5-3 win over the Texas Rangers on Sept. 12.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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9/23/15
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Merokean Dylan O’Shaughnessy was out east in Smithtown, helping his mom, Liz, a landscape designer, with a client’s garden in late June, when he got the call: He had been drafted by the New York Lizards, which this year was the best team in Major League Lacrosse.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/19/15
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Jordan Novak was one of many students who wanted to join the Saw Mill Road Elementary School Serenaders, a select vocal musical group, in recent years. She explained that dozens of her peers wanted …
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By Julie Mansmann
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8/6/15
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U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara added more charges to the indictment against Senator Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, late in the day on Tuesday, July 21.
Skelos, 67, and his son Adam, 32, were already charged with six counts stemming from what Bharara said was a scheme in which Skelos was trading favors with businesses in exchange for payments made to his son.
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By Alex Costello
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7/21/15
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Jake Thomas and Alex Vargas, both 21, played baseball together in 2011 at Calhoun High School under legendary coach Joe Corea. In 2010, Thomas led the Colts squad that captured the Nassau County Class AA title. In 2012, Vargas played a critical role in the Colts’ victory at the Long Island Class AA championship.
Major League teams recently drafted them both.
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By Julie Mansmann
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7/15/15
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Of the 1,200-plus athletes drafted in last week’s Major League Baseball 2015 Draft, East Meadow and Salisbury residents may recognize a familiar name — Tim Ingram, a 2011 W.T. Clarke High School graduate who was selected by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 31st round, with the 928th pick.
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By David Weingrad
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6/17/15
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Madeline Singas, Nassau County’s acting district attorney, continued her push for greater restrictions for registered sex offenders last week at a North Merrick civic group meeting. The setting was significant. Weeks earlier, police arrested a North Merrick man ...
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By Brian Racow
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6/3/15
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On May 12, eight days after turning himself in on federal corruption charges, Dean Skelos stepped down as majority leader of the State Senate.
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5/28/15
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Dean Skelos is the fifth consecutive majority leader of the State Senate to be indicted. And Sheldon Silver isn’t the first speaker of the Assembly to be indicted. In the past decade, more than 30 sitting or former state officeholders . . .
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5/28/15
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Sen. Dean Skelos resigned Monday as the majority leader of the State Senate. He stands accused by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of official corruption.
Republican senators met Monday, before Skelos’s resignation . . .
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5/14/15
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