Nearly 4,000 pounds of turkey and roughly 5,000 pounds of canned and dry food flew out the doors of the Oceanside High School lobby early on Nov. 21. The reason for this mass exodus? Charity, as more …
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By Peter Belfiore
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12/5/17
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One man. One van. Eighteen days. More than 9,400 miles. Countless impact.
South Hempstead resident Tommy Maher, who embarked earlier this month on a cross-country drive to honor the 58 victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, returned home last Saturday after spreading kindness in the hometowns of those killed at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on Oct. 1.
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By Ben Strack
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11/30/17
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After 58 were killed and more than 500 were injured when a man opened fire at the Las Vegas crowd that came out for the Route 91 Harvest country music festival last month, longtime South Hempstead resident Tommy Maher read the bios of each of the victims. He didn’t want to simply make a monetary donation.
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By Ben Strack
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11/16/17
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“It felt like there were fireworks,” Long Beach resident Denise Carroll told the Herald on Monday.
The death toll in Las Vegas was climbing that day, after a lone gunman opened fire with an …
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By Ben Strack, Bridget Downes, Jeff Bessen, and
Scott Brinton
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10/5/17
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The death toll was climbing steadily on Monday, less than 24 hours after a lone gunman opened fire with an assault weapon from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas during country music star Jason Aldean's performance at the Route 91 Harvest Festival.
In the crowd at the Aldean concert was Peter Meehan, 24, of Rockville Centre, who flew to Las Vegas last Thursday to attend the three-day music festival with his girlfriend.
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By Ben Strack, Jeffrey Bessen and Scott Brinton
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10/2/17
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During the early morning hours on June 12, 2016, the Orlando Regional Medical Center took in 36 patients in 36 minutes, in an event that would later be known as the worst mass shooting in the history …
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Julie Loney
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6/15/17
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Nassau County police responded to a call reporting that a man was shot outside Sonny O's Pub early Monday morning.
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By Nick Ciccone
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3/13/17
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A jury heard testimony last week in the trial of a Long Beach man who is charged with the murder of 28-year-old Tyrenzo Brown outside the Channel Park housing complex in 2014.
Antonio Webb, 24, …
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By Bridget Downes
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2/23/17
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Dec. 14, 2013. It was nail-biting cold. The sort of cold that foreshadowed snowflakes in the coming days but still coddled them in gray-blanketed skies.
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1/13/17
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More than 100 Oceanside High School students and community members loaded up their cars on Nov. 22 with 250 turkey dinners, and distributed them to the homes of families in need for the town’s 30th …
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By Peter Belfiore
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11/29/16
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