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House Speaker Paul Ryan said earlier this month that Republicans would move to strip funding from Planned Parenthood, part of a broader effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, much to the chagrin of pro-choice advocates.
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1/26/17
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For as long as he can remember, Bobby Fehrenbach says, he has loved sports. The Wantagh native was a three-season athlete at MacArthur High School in Levittown. After graduating in 1984, he went on to play football at Pace University. For many, a sports career would end there, but for Fehrenbach it was just the beginning.
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By Rebecca Anderson
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7/13/16
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Remember Pat from “Saturday Night Live”? In 1990, when the character debuted, I laughed along with everyone else . . .
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4/8/16
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A 2015 survey conducted by the Association of American Universities of 150,000 college students from 27 U.S. universities, found that 23 percent of women said they have experienced unwanted sexual contact — ranging from kissing to touching to rape — done by force or the threat of physical violence, and in some cases while they were incapacitated due to alcohol or drug use.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/23/16
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Bus rides, away games and the camaraderie are just a few aspects that the girls on the MacArthur varsity tennis team said they enjoyed the most about their season. With an overall 13-1 record in Conference III-B, the team of 20 definitely made its mark, sharing a title with New Hyde Park.
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By Rebecca Anderson
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1/5/16
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Kim Wyant, a 51-year-old East Meadowite, has achieved a lot of firsts in the world of soccer. Wyant, who became head coach of the New York University Violets this fall, is the only woman who leads …
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By Julie Mansmann
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11/11/15
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The Calhoun girls’ badminton team added another Nassau County Class AA title to its impressive collection—the program’s ninth in the last 13 seasons and second straight—knocking off No. 2 Great Neck, 4-3, in the championship round on May 19.
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By Steve Siniski
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6/10/15
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After a swirl of media interviews on Sunday afternoon, 18-year-old Noah Rubin of Merrick had to be fitted for a tuxedo, right down to his shiny black shoes. In just hours he would attend the Wimbledon Champions Dinner at the glittering Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden, where he would meet Wimbledon men’s champion Novak Djokovic, the world’s No. 1 tennis player.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/6/14
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The North Merrick School District announced in March that each of its schools — Camp Avenue, Fayette and Old Mill Road — had qualified for a $75,000 “Reward School Dissemination Grant” from the state Education Department due to their students’ high performance on state assessment tests in 2011 and 2012.
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By Brian Racow
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4/17/14
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It is not often that a student-athlete who wins a national championship in her sport has the time for another extracurricular activity. For well-rounded Merokean Joy Ma, however, the national title is just the beginning.
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4/9/14
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