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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…
Cuomo won’t face criminal charges
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A county prosecutor said Tuesday that former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won’t face criminal charges stemming from allegations of unwanted kissing by two women, one of them a state trooper assigned to his detail. Westchester County District Attorney Mimi Rocah said that while there was evidence to conclude the…
White House, Jan. 6 committee agree to shield some documents
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol has agreed to defer its attempt to get hundreds of pages of records from the Trump administration, holding off at the request of the Biden White House. The deferral is in response to concerns by the Biden White House that releasing…
Farmingdale and Patchogue cancel New Year’s Eve ball drop
According to Newsday Farmingdale has canceled its planned New Year’s Eve ball drop event due to rising COVID concerns, the village mayor confirmed. Mayor Ralph Ekstrand said in a statement Monday that the board of trustees called off the event that was expected to take place on the Village Green Dec. 31 out of an…
New parking rules At UBS Arena
Local parking is being restricted near the UBS Arena following local residents’ complaints, according to News 12 Residents in Elmont said vehicles have been blocking driveways, and arena customers have been hanging out near homes. The Hempstead Town Board voted unanimously to enact the new regulations. The limits will keep non-residents from parking on roads…
Despite supply issues and omicron, holiday sales rise
(AP) Holiday sales rose at the fastest pace in 17 years, even as shoppers grappled with higher prices, product shortages and a raging new COVID-19 variant in the last few weeks of the season, according to one spending measure. Mastercard SpendingPulse, which tracks all kinds of payments including cash and debit cards, reported Sunday that…