A team of six Herald editors and reporters –– Scott Brinton, Jeff Bessen, Alex Costello, Mary Malloy, Anthony Rifilato and Alexandra Spychalsky –– have taken second place for Community …
more
4/16/14
|
After a meeting on March 11 with U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, of New York, and Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, of New Jersey, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate announced that the agency had agreed to reopen and review every flood insurance claim — approximately 144,000 — filed in New York and New Jersey by victims of Hurricane Sandy, and not limit corrective action to just the 2,200 claims that are now in litigation.
more
By Barbra Rubin-Perry
|
3/18/15
|
It’s that time again: School’s in, vacation’s over, and we can all get back to some semblance of a schedule, thank goodness.
more
Mary Malloy
|
9/3/09
|
When Hofstra University got the call on Nov. 2 asking if they had power following the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, officials never expected what they would be asked next. The Long Island based Army …
more
By Deirdre Krasula
|
11/13/12
|
It’s been 22 years since our world changed forever when our nation was attacked. But for so many like Susan Hutchins, it still feels like Sept. 11, 2001 — the day she lost her son, West Hempstead’s Kevin Nathaniel Colbert, in the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
more
By Michael Hinman
|
9/18/23
|
George Santos has become the first congressman to be expelled from the U.S. House of Representatives without first being convicted of a felony since the Civil War.
more
By Laura Lane
|
12/1/23
|
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the allied nations and Germany in World War I, then known as "The Great War."
more
Mary Malloy
|
11/5/09
|
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman's efforts to bring in Hofstra University president Susan Poser before the county legislature will have to wait until February.
more
By Brandon Cruz
|
1/26/24
|
Well, here I go again. Life is just not busy enough for me, what with writing, reporting, editing, teenagers, curfews, mortgage and such — but I am honing my thespian chops now in “On …
more
Mary Malloy
|
3/17/10
|
One year after Superstorm Sandy laid waste to Long Island’s electrical grids, New Jersey-based energy company PSE&G is preparing to replace LIPA in managing …
more
By John Maher
|
11/13/13
|