A Freeport man accused of driving under the influence of drugs pleaded guilty on Monday to charges related to a crash on the Southern State Parkway last year that killed an Oceanside man.
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By Ben Strack
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3/28/17
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A Westchester County judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit on March 13 that sought to recoup more than $800,000 in retirement payments made by the Town of Hempstead’s Sanitation District No. 7 in …
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By Peter Belfiore
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3/21/17
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Last Friday, President Trump moved to eliminate the last remnants of the Obama administration, prosecutors at the Justice Department. The president ordered the 46 holdover U.S. attorneys to . . .
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3/16/17
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As a young girl in Burkina Faso, Georgie Badiel walked for three hours each morning to fetch clean water. After moving to the United States about a decade ago, she went back to her home country in Western Africa to visit her pregnant sister, who still had to get up between 2 and 4 a.m. to retrieve the scarce resource.
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By Ben Strack
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3/7/17
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Research from the Citizens Campaign for the Environment, compiled from three years of publicly available water quality reports, found high levels of 1,4 dioxane in water serviced by the 39 water districts, including the Water Authority of Western Nassau, the Franklin Square Water District, New York American Water’s Lynbrook and Merrick Operations Districts, and the Town of Hempstead Water District.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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2/28/17
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Residents visited the Oceanside Public Library on Feb. 23, where State Assemblyman Brian Curran outlined how the upcoming 2017-18 state executive budget could affect residents living in the 21st …
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By Peter Belfiore
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2/28/17
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For 90 years, volunteer firefighters have operated out of Oceanside’s South Side Hose Company No. 2 firehouse on Alice Avenue. But for the last four, they have been working out of a trailer in a …
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By Peter Belfiore
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2/28/17
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Because of icy driving conditions and extreme cold, school districts across the South Shore delayed or canceled classes on Feb. 10. According to their websites, as of 5:30 a.m., they …
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By Scott Brinton
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2/10/17
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According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, there are more than 119,000 men, women and children on the national waiting list for organ donations. Even more sobering . . .
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2/9/17
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An attorney adviser for the Internal Revenue Service was arrested and charged with distributing 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, according to court documents unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Wednesday.
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By Ben Strack
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2/2/17
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