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The weather service also warned of a winter storm coming Thursday night, following Wednesday's unseasonable warmth of 65.  

Officials said the database fulfilled a promise of the department's police reform plan adopted last year and will give police brass new insights that could spur more reforms.

"It's so obvious how beloved Jesse was to everyone in his life," said acting FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh outside the funeral home. A large American flag hung between two Islip ladder trucks parked on Montauk Highway.

The shooting in the parking lot of Tanger Outlets in Deer Park was the second such incident in a span of less than 30 minutes, Suffolk police said.

Authorities have not said when the culling will occur, but wildlife advocates plan a protest Wednesday outside Caleb Smith preserve in Smithtown. 

The Siena College poll found that far more New Yorkers — 58% — would rather wait to gather March data about the virus before lifting the mask mandate for schoolchildren.

The parties are backing Conservative Vincent Puleo, the Smithtown Town Clerk since 2006, for Suffolk County Clerk in November, Suffolk GOP chairman Jesse Garcia said.

LaLota, 43, of Amityville, is chief of staff of the Suffolk County Legislature and a former Republican commissioner of the county Board of Elections.

The 14-year-old shared the marijuana-laced edibles with two friends before the candy was destroyed, police said.

Students in nursery and pre-K at Our Lady of Guadalupe, sister schools in Central Islip and Deer Park, spend half the day studying in English and the other half in Spanish. By graduation from 8th grade, students should be completely fluent in both languages.

The town board selected Uniondale-based developer RXR and Jericho-based developer Georgica Green Ventures to transform the long-blighted lot surrounding the LIRR train station into a mixed-use area of apartments and shops. 

A state Supreme Court justice ruled in 2020 that a permit allowing the Noyac mine to dig 40 feet deeper and operate for nearly a decade longer was valid, but Southampton Town and environmental groups appealed. A May appellate court ruling found the DEC violated state environmental conservation law by issuing the permit.

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, many Long Island doctors and other medical personnel are frustrated with the people who still refuse to get vaccinated. They blame it on social media.

A funeral Mass for Gerhard will be celebrated Wednesday at noon at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Bay Shore. 

Babylon Town has entered into an agreement with the hospital to station a staffed ambulance at the firehouse 24/7, at no cost, while the embattled company transitions back to answering emergency calls and restoring its cancelled contract.

"We're going to use that to strengthen our grant proposals to try and obtain funding for water main extensions to cover these areas impacted," said Frank Mancini, Riverhead's water district superintendent, of areas in Calverton and Manorville.  

The CDC is looking at various indicators before updating their mask-wearing recommendations, possibly as early as this week.

Nearly a third of Americans report such symptoms — triple the pre-COVID-19 number — as they adjust to shifting ideas of what the new normal will look like.

LIRR president Phillip Eng said he had been thinking about leaving the railroad for some time, and felt the time was right, in part because he "did what I came here to do."

Former chief Thomas Cummings, who is now with the Suffolk County Crime Analysis Center in Yaphank, got a $774G payout when his contract was not renewed that the mayor says was "extraordinarily lopsided against the village taxpayer" and must be avoided in future contracts.