The American Red Cross is urging healthy, eligible people who are feeling well to give blood or platelets to help maintain a sufficient blood supply and prevent shortages as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
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3/26/20
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As of Monday, the death toll from Hurricane Dorian — once a Category 5 monster — had reached 44, thousands were missing and an estimated 13,000 homes had been destroyed . . .
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9/13/19
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My ears were ringing on March 7, so I thought I might have an ear infection. I hurried to an urgent care center, thinking I’d grab an antibiotic and be at work the next day. I was wrong.
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3/29/19
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Last year I learned of an extraordinary young boy from Long Island, Brandon VonBargen. Brandon, then a third-grader at Bayville School, was diagnosed in January with APML, a form of leukemia.
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By Neela Lockel
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1/25/19
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A member of the Blooods street gang has been indicted on a number of charges, including the 2012 murder of a Westbury man in Baldwin Harbor, federal prosecutors announced.
Brooklyn resident Dylan …
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By Anthony O'Reilly
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1/9/19
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Some terrifying creatures, known as the “League of the Undead,” are skulking around Nassau Coliseum this month.
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By Karen Bloom
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10/5/18
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Some 4.5 million Americans would die each year without blood transfusions, according to Brookhaven National Laboratory, in Suffolk County. That is why donating blood is critical.
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7/21/18
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I looked down, and there it was — my heart, feverishly thumping. My valves looked like little whips snapping back and forth. It was a strange sight indeed.
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10/26/17
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Some terrifying creatures, known as the “League of the Undead,” are skulking around Nassau Coliseum this month.
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By Karen Bloom
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10/13/17
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Three members of the Latin Kings street gang were sentenced today for brutally stabbing, beating and kidnapping a member of the Bloods street gang who had entered the window of a Valley Stream home to collect his girlfriend’s belongings in March 2016.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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5/10/17
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