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Long Island community center to be demolished, but program parents rely on will stick around
Nassau County residents who depended on a community center now have reason to celebrate, even after the county closed the center in July — putting the future of a crucial early childhood development program in limbo. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.
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Police issue alert after terrifying home invasion on Long Island
Suffolk County police are warning people about a man who allegedly pretended to be a delivery worker as part of a ruse to rob a home. Armed with a gun and zip ties, he terrorized a family in Commack. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.
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DWI suspect slips cuffs, steals cop car in joyride: NY police
Police on Long Island said they had to arrest a man twice on Friday after a suspected DWI driver gave officers the slip and got away with one of their cruisers. Troopers first tracked down the 37-year-old driver around 5:30 a.m. after reports of property damage on the Southern State Parkway in Baylon, the New York State Police said. The…
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Fire rips though commercial building on Long Island
Pei-Sze Cheng reporting on a fire that ripped through a commercial building on Long Island.
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Man sentenced in drunken drive for diner soup that killed 61-year-old father
A Long Island man has been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for striking and killing a diner patron while under the influence of alcohol as he tried to drive off with his soup takeout, the district attorney announced. Willem Specht, 63, pleaded guilty last month to aggravated vehicular homicide, assault and aggravated driving while intoxicated in the…
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Haulin' Aus: Using Australian shepherds to crack down on Long Island's wild geese
Pei-Sze Cheng reporting on a wild geese crackdown on Long Island.
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2 killed in Long Island crash after man runs red light into car full of teens: police
A red-light crash resulted in the deaths of two people and sent four others to the hospital early Saturday morning, police on Long Island said. The double-fatal collision happened in West Babylon around 1 a.m. Saturday, Nassau County police said. Michael Desmond, 33, had allegedly blown a red light at the intersection of Great East Neck Road and Railroad Avenue…
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Pro-Palestinian protester wearing keffiyeh charged with violating Nassau County's face mask ban
A pro-Palestinian protester has been charged with violating a suburban New York City county’s new law banning face masks in public. Police in Nassau County say the 26-year-old was arrested Sunday afternoon during a protest in front of a synagogue in Cedarhurst. They say officers questioned the man because he had been concealing his face with a keffiyeh. Police say...
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Capacity crowd gathers on Long Island for Trump rally
Thousands of people converged on Long Island Wednesday afternoon for former President Donald Trump’s rally at the Nassau Coliseum, his first large-scale event following a second apparent attempt on his life over the weekend. There was a brief scare earlier in the day, as Nassau County police said a person who may have been training a bomb detection dog...
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Security heightened ahead of Trump rally on Long Island
Tracie Strahan reports.
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Dad admits to stabbing wife to death in front of son in backyard of Long Island home
A Long Island man admitted to stabbing his wife to death in the backyard of their home, in front of the couple’s teenage son, according to prosecutors.
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Security heightened on Long Island ahead of Trump rally, his first big event since shooting
Final preparations are underway to shore up security for former President Donald Trump’s planned Wednesday rally in Long Island’s Nassau County, his first expected large-scale event following a second apparent assassination attempt over the weekend. The event will be held at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale at 7 p.m. Nassau County police will be among the law...
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Forming security plans ahead of Long Island Trump rally
Donald Trump is scheduled to be on long island for a campaign rally on Wednesday, and law enforcement is working to formulate the plan to keep the former president, and those attending the rally, safe — just days after an apparent assassination attempt. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.
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New details released about ‘Asian Doe' Gilgo Beach victim
Long Island authorities released enhanced images as they seek to identify one of the as yet unknown victims whose remains were found more than a decade ago. News 4’s Greg Cergol reports.
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Who is ‘Asian Doe'? Cops hope new forensic images will identify suspected Gilgo victim
Law enforcement officials released enhanced images Monday as they seek to identify one of the as-yet-unknown victims whose remains were found along a coastal highway in New York’s Long Island more than a decade ago, part of a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings. Suffolk County officials shared forensic reconstruction images as well as informational flyers...
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Long Island officials to release new renderings of possible Gilgo Beach victim
Law enforcement officials are set to release new information about one of the victims whose remains were found along a coastal highway in New York’s Long Island more than a decade ago, a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings.
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Justin Timberlake pleads guilty to impaired driving in Sag Harbor
Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty in court on Friday, a resolution of a case that started with his arrest in June on drunk driving charges in the Hamptons. As part of the deal, Timberlake had to speak publicly about the dangers of drinking and driving, and in court he said no one is more disappointed in him than himself. NBC New...
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Long Island man high on PCP sentenced for 2021 NYC crash that paralyzed woman
A Long Island man was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for a 2021 wrong-way Brooklyn crash while high on PCP and marijuana that left a woman a quadriplegic, the local district attorney announced Thursday. Virgilio Rodriguez, 51 and of Rockville Center, was sentenced to 7 ½ to 15 years in prison after being convicted last month of…
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Justin Timberlake after guilty plea: ‘I will do my part'
Musician Justin Timberlake spoke to the media after pleading guilty to impaired driving in a New York courtroom.
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Justin Timberlake arrives at Long Island court DWI plea hearing
Justin Timberlake arrived at a Long Island courthouse late Thursday morning and is expected to plead guilty to a lesser charge related to his Hamptons intoxicated driving arrest from a few months ago, a Suffolk district attorney spokesperson has said.