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Long Beach holds rally to protest offshore wind projects
There was a rally held in Long Beach on Sunday to protest the Rapid Act proposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul The Rapid Act would streamline the environmental review process for underground transmission lines related to offshore wind projects. Protesters say the Rapid Act will take away the voice of the community. Hochul proposed the measure…
Pet shop to pay $300,000 to customers that bought sick pets
The New York Attorney office announced on Friday that Shake A Paw pet shop will have to pay $300,000 to 190 customers that bought sick pets.Shake A Paw, which has a locations in Hicksville and Lynbrook, was sued after an investigation showed that the company falsely advertised sick pets as healthy, failing to disclose medical…
Biden uses feisty State of the Union to contrast with Trump, sell voters on a second term
By ZEKE MILLER and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden delivered a defiant argument for a second term in his State of the Union speech Thursday night, lacing into GOP front-runner Donald Trump for espousing “resentment, revenge and retribution” and for jeopardizing freedom at home and abroad.Reveling in the political moment,…
Santos plans to run for office again
George Santos, announced on social media that he is making another run at public office. Santos who attends president Biden’s State of the Union address last night, says he is challenging Republican Rep. Nick LaLota in New York’s 1st Congressional District. Santos is still facing 23 federal charges due to accusations of misusing campaign funds…
Babylon case puts bail laws in spotlight
Gov. Hochul and Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney are sparing over charging decision and bail in the Babylon body parts case.The four suspects were charged with concealing a human corpse, along with other charges, were placed on supervised release, with GPS monitoring without having to post bail due to what Tierney called nonsensical bail…
Steve Lawrence, singer, entertainer and half of popular stage duo Steve & Eydie, dies at 88
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment WriterNEW YORK (AP) — Steve Lawrence, a singer and top stage act who as a solo performer and in tandem with his wife Eydie Gorme kept Tin Pan Alley alive during the rock era, died Thursday. He was 88.Lawrence, whose hits included “Go Away Little Girl,” died from complications due…
Judge denies Trump relief from $83.3 million defamation judgment
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — The federal judge who oversaw a New York defamation trial that resulted in an $83.3 million award to a longtime magazine columnist who says Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s refused Thursday to relieve the ex-president from the verdict’s financial pinch.Judge Lewis A. Kaplan told Trump’s…
Gotti family in court for assault charges at HS basketball game
Gianna Gotti The daughter of former mob boss John Gotti Jr. was in court in a Nassau County on Wednesday, facing charges she assaulted a woman at a game at Locust Valley High School during the evening of Feb. 8. She and her mother, Kimberly Gotti, are accused of getting into a fight and ripping…
Jury convicts movie armorer of involuntary manslaughter in fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin
By MORGAN LEE Associated PressSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A jury convicted a movie weapons supervisor of involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin during a rehearsal on the set of the Western movie “Rust.”The verdict against movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed assigned new blame in the October…
County leader sues New York over an order to rescind his ban on transgender female athletes
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated PressMINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A Republican official has asked a federal court to affirm his decision to ban girls’ and women’s sports teams with transgender athletes from using county facilities in New York City’s suburbs.Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman filed the lawsuit days after the state’s Democratic attorney general, Letitia James,…
4 are charged with concealing a corpse, evidence tampering in Long Island body parts case
BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — Four people were charged Wednesday with concealing a human corpse and tampering with evidence in connection with the discovery of body parts in parks on Long Island.The four — Amanda Wallace, 40, Jeffrey Mackey, 38, Steven Brown, 44, all of Amityville, and Alexis Nieves, 33, who police said is homeless —…
Nikki Haley suspends her campaign and leaves Donald Trump as the last major Republican candidate
By STEVE PEOPLES and MEG KINNARD Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday after being soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday, leaving Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination.Haley didn’t endorse the former president in a speech in Charleston, South Carolina.…