From the look of the damage sustained by a charter bus after it crashed into the Eagle Avenue Bridge on the Southern State Parkway in early April, the incident should have been a mass tragedy.
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5/24/18
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Fair season has arrived — just as the warmer weather lifts our spirits. The Empire State Fair, which made its debut last summer, is back to kick things off. Circus-type spectacle, including …
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By Karen Bloom
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5/10/18
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Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas has been appointed as a special prosecutor by Governor Cuomo to lead an investigation into allegations that former State Attorney General Eric …
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By Scott Brinton and Erik Hawkins
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5/9/18
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An quick thinking tow truck operator said yes to giving a man a ride after he saw him walking near a black Dodge Ram truck that was involved in an accident.
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/8/18
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Cancer: a six-letter word with more meaning than any of us can conceive. In one-way or another, cancer has touched all of our lives.
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By Allison Siegel
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5/3/18
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As Michael Pompeo’s nomination for secretary of state wound its way through the Senate confirmation process, a spotlight shined on the unfortunate hyper-partisanship afflicting Congress these days.
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5/3/18
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Talking about ethics is always a crowd-pleaser, particularly when scandals are as recent and as numerous as they have been in New York. So it was almost to be expected when Gov. Andrew Cuomo pledged . . .
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4/20/18
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When a group of Hofstra University students recently began calling for the Thomas Jefferson statue in front of the Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center to be removed, those who aren’t history buffs might have done a double take.
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4/12/18
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South Shore elected leaders are calling on the state to upgrade safety measures on Long Island parkways after a charter bus carrying students from Kennedy Airport to Suffolk County recently crashed into the Eagle Avenue bridge in Lakeview, nearly shearing off the bus’s roof and injuring three dozen students and chaperones, six of them seriously.
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By Scott Brinton and Nakeem Grant
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4/9/18
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Awesome Allie takes everyone on a journey through space.
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3/29/18
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