WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, has died at her home in Washington. She was 87. Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said. Ginsburg announced in July that she was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for lesions on her…
On Thursday, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo said that the COVID-19 infection rate for New York State, remained below 1 percent on Wednesday but on Long Island, the infection rate has been over 1 percent. On Long Island the COVID rate was 1.2% on Monday, 1.3% on Tuesday and 1.1% on Wednesday. Positive coronavirus cases have…
MTA officials on Thursday warned that they are in dire need of 12 billion dollars in federal funding to continue operations into 2021. If the money doesn’t come through from the federal government, the MTA might need to make serious cuts to service and to jobs. Photo credit: (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
The Tampa Bay Lightning took game six of the Eastern Conference finals over the New York Islanders, 2-1. Tampa Bay will now face the Dallas Stars in the Stanley Cup finals. Photo credit: (File Photo: AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
NEW YORK (AP) — The Yankees hit five run home runs in an inning for the first time in their history. Brett Gardner, DJ LeMehieu and Luke Voit homered on consecutive pitches in the fourth inning from Toronto’s Chase Anderson. Voit’s home run was his major league-leading 20th. Aaron Hicks struck out, and Giancarlo Stanton…
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The governor’s budget director said Wednesday it’s “premature” for some school districts to have laid off workers, and said New York will wait until after the November election to decide whether to slash state spending. Budget director Robert Mujica told The Associated Press that the state has withheld $300 million in…
WANTAGH, N.Y. (AP) — Barges dumped old rail cars into the Atlantic Ocean as part of New York’s efforts to build artificial reefs that attract fish and divers. Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke Wednesday from the stern of a moving boat as barges began to drop steel rail cars that weighed as much as 21 tons…
UNDATED (AP) — The smoke from dozens of wildfires in the western United States is stretching clear across the country — and even pushing into Mexico, Canada and Europe. While the dangerous plumes are forcing people inside along the West Coast, residents thousands of miles away in the East are seeing unusually hazy skies and…
NEW YORK (AP) — The legend of the Tyrannosaurus rex known as Stan is getting fresh life thanks to Christie’s auction house. It put the enormous fossil on display starting Wednesday through floor-to-ceiling windows at its midtown Manhattan gallery in advance of putting it up for auction. The estimated value is up to $8 million.…
Southampton Town is encouraging beach goers to clean up after visiting the local beaches. The town has unveiled easy to use clean up baskets at Pikes beach. The baskets were donated by local community member Aiden Kravitz, and co-sponsored by SMI/DRS-Solutions Management Inc. and Disaster Recovery Services. Photo credit: Town of Southampton / Connie Conway