The men burst into the house and dragged out the 15-year-old boy as his mother screamed for help. The sheriff’s men bound the boy’s hands and feet, loaded him into their car and . . .
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5/24/18
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The U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library recently announced that the final 50 World War I memorials will be awarded grants and honored with the official national designation as “WWI Centennial Memorials,” including Lynbrook’s Doughboy Monument.
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5/11/18
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At a Feb. 1 news conference, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran called on New York state not to renew the permits for 68 wells in Jamaica, Queens, until the United States Geological Survey …
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By Melissa Koenig
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2/3/18
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An estimated 200,000 men, women and children took to the streets of Manhattan for the second Women’s March, held on the first anniversary of President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration on …
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By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen, Melissa Koenig and Nakeem Grant
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1/21/18
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The public bus dropped me at a dirt patch seemingly in the middle of nowhere. In front of me, on the other side of a four-lane highway, was a wide river. Behind me was a tree-covered escarpment. Pittsburgh was nowhere to be seen.
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11/16/17
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Lynbrook resident Catherine Zervas started off her senior year at Dean College in Franklin, Mass. with a bang. She was among the students who had the opportunity to dance on the football field at Gillette Stadium before the New England Patriots hosted the Kansas City Chiefs in their season-opener on Sept. 7.
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By Mike Smollins
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9/28/17
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Last week, at the height of hurricane season, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that forecasters are predicting a higher likelihood of an above-normal season, and increased the predicted number of . . .
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8/17/17
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“Oh, there goes Father Faggot.”
The Rev. Christopher Hofer still recalls the insults children and teens hurled at him in 2004, while he was out running in Wantagh, his new …
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By Julie Mansmann
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6/29/17
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If there was ever a company that demonstrated greed, it would be iStar. If there was ever a city government that demonstrated a lack of openness and morality, it is the officials of the City of Long Beach.
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5/4/17
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Outside, it might have been drizzly and cold, but inside spirits were running high among officials on Friday as they cut the ribbon on the new NYCB Live Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, revamped at a cost of $165 million in private funding by Forest City Ratner Companies. Billy Joel will open the remodeled Coliseum on April 5.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/31/17
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