The special election to fill the State Senate’s 9th District seat, formerly held by Majority Leader Dean Skelos, is set for April 19, the same day as New York’s presidential primary.
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2/4/16
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On Monday, Republican and Democratic delegates from around the great state of Iowa will hold district conventions, at which attendees in their respective precincts will mark the names of the presidential candidates they support. Votes will be counted in each precinct . . .
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1/28/16
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A jury in Suffolk County needed only two hours to convict a Huntington Station man of shooting Suffolk police officer Mark Collins, of North Bellmore, during a traffic stop last March, according to a representative of the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office.
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By Scott Brinton and Julie Mansmann
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1/27/16
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Because of the complaints it has received from many parents, South Side Middle School plans to change the way it chooses students for the annual eighth-grade trip to Washington, D.C.
The trip has …
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By Alex Costello
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1/27/16
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New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore administered the oath of office to swear Nassau District Attorney Madeline Singas into office on Monday. The ceremony, held at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, featured several guest speakers. Singas’s family and friends attended the ceremony, with several family members in town from Greece.
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By Stephany Reyes
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1/26/16
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In the coming weeks and months, local school districts will be planning their 2016-17 budgets, deciding how to allocate their pieces of that very large pie. It’s our right to have a say in how that money will be spent.
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1/21/16
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The Board of Education recently fast-tracked a change to its policy dealing with life-threatening conditions that now allows school nurses to administer anti-opiate drugs to children and adults who …
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By Alex Costello
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1/20/16
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Molloy College and the Baldwin School District are joining forces in a unique partnership that will create a “media incubator” in the former Shubert Elementary School, the college and the …
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By Adrienne Lyons
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1/20/16
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New York state may restore millions of dollars in state aid to school districts this year, just in time for a tax cap that could otherwise eliminate any possible budget growth.
In 2009-10, the …
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By Alex Costello
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1/13/16
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This fall six Hofstra University graduate journalism students visited Hempstead High School weekly to teach members of the newspaper club about how to write news and feature articles and to introduce …
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By Stephany Reyes
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12/23/15
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