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FDA expands Pfizer boosters for more teens as omicron surges
The U.S. is expanding COVID-19 boosters as it confronts the omicron surge. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday allowed extra Pfizer shots for children as young as 12. Boosters already are recommended for everyone 16 and older, and the FDA says they’re also warranted for 12- to 15-year-olds. The FDA also said everyone eligible…
NY governor seek term limits, ban on officials’ extra income
NEW YORK (AP) — Gov. Kathy Hochul wants New York to impose term limits on her office and other statewide elected officials and ban them from earning an outside income. Those changes are an implicit rebuke of her predecessor Andrew Cuomo. Hochul is a Democrat who took office in August after Cuomo stepped down amid…
Trump, Ivanka and Don Jr. subpoenaed in probe into business
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York State attorney general’s office confirms it has subpoenaed ex-President Donald Trump and his two eldest children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. The subpoena demands they testify in an investigation into the family’s business. Attorney General Letitia James’ office says in a court filing that it had issued subpoenas…
Fauci: CDC mulling COVID test requirement for asymptomatic
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the COVID-19 omicron variant surges across the United States, top federal health officials are looking to add a negative test along with its five-day isolation restrictions for asymptomatic Americans who catch the coronavirus. That’s according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s top medical adviser. He says in television interviews that…
Snow storms and pandemic ground flights, delay holiday’s end
(AP)- Wintry weather combined with the pandemic to frustrate air travelers whose return flights home from the holidays were canceled or delayed in the first days of the new year. The tracking service FlightAware said more than 2,600 U.S. flights and more than 4,400 worldwide were grounded Sunday. That followed Saturday’s mass cancellations of more…
Schools adapt for return from break as COVID-19 cases surge
(AP)- Mask requirements are returning in some school districts that had dropped them. Some are planning to vastly ramp up virus testing among students and staff. And a small number of school system are switching to remote learning. Educators hope that’s for just a short while, though. Soaring coronavirus infections mean the return from schools’…
911 calls to be released in potential serial killer case
OAK BEACH, N.Y. (AP) — Nine-one-one calls connected to the investigation into a possible serial killer on Long Island may soon be released. The new Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison says he will release calls related to the Gilgo Beach homicides, as long as they don’t hinder the ongoing investigation. The 2010 disappearance of…
NY gov: More federal teams coming to help in virus surge
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Federal ambulance teams and additional National Guard members are headed for New York City, and western New York hospitals are getting more federal help as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations keep rising. State officials announced the new deployments Friday. Gov. Kathy Hochul also said students at state universities and the City University…
LIRR running extra trains for New Years eve
Thursday & Friday, Dec 30-31,the Long Island Rail Road will run 13 extra trains departing Penn Station between 12:43 & 3:48pm: Two extra trains to Ronkonkoma, 3 to Hicksville/Huntington, 6 to Babylon, and one each to Great Neck and Far Rockaway You can find the full schedule below https://new.mta.info/article/new-years-eve-travel-lirr (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Suffolk police offer reward for information in a fatal shooting in Southampton on Christmas
Suffolk police are offering a $2000 cash reward for information in the fatal shooting of a man in Southampton on Christmas. Southampton Town police were called for a burglary at 90 Roses Grove Road just before 9 a.m. on Saturday. When they got there, they found 53-year-old Steven Byrnes shot to death. Suffolk County Crime…
CityMD temporarily closes more locations
News 12 reports that CityMD is temporarily closing more of its locations as it tries to keep up with the overwhelming demand for Covid testing. The Patchogue and Mineola locations are now closed temporarily. That’s in addition to two other locations that closed last week in Bay Shore and Merrick. A total of 31 CityMD…
Ghislaine Maxwell convicted in Epstein sex abuse case
NEW YORK (AP) — The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein. The verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring sordid accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14, told by four women who described being abused as teens in the 1990s and…