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The hope is that Hochul will embrace the local support and then ask President Joe Biden to designate it a national monument through the 1906 Antiquities Act.

A key issue for policymakers is establishing the metrics for determining when to move on to this 'new normal,' experts say.

Friends of Connetquot River State Park Preserve plans to produce six videos featuring stories of residents 85 years or older who have interesting or compelling stories about life in Islip Town, the nonprofit said. 

Hiring and retaining substitute teachers, school nurses, custodians and bus drivers remains a problem at LI schools, educators said, even with districts seeing fewer staff absences as the winter surge of COVID-19 recedes.

Steven Ortner and his 10-month-old son are being treated for burns suffered in a house fire early Friday in East Setauket. Family members say the couple worked to first save their baby, Leo. But Lisa Ostrowski couldn't escape the blaze and died.

Researchers at NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island in Mineola are examining genetic information in brain cells to find out what causes Alzheimer's disease.

Smith, who opposed development plans for a 75-acre Smithtown property owned by former defense contractor Gyrodyne, was "one of those people every community should want," said Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine.

Kevin Rollins's death in December 2018 happened because county officials ignored a drug contraband problem at the facility and didn't treat his addiction, the lawsuit alleges.

A fast-moving midnight fire fed by whipping winds tore through the home, killing a mother and badly burning the father of their 10-month-old son when he made a desperate rescue attempt, officials said.

Snow squalls could arrive between noon and 5 p.m. Saturday, while a wind advisory will be in place from 1 p.m. until 11 p.m., according to the National Weather Service

Even though many families will travel and be with those they don't see a lot, the school winter break next week comes as cases and deaths drop and more people are protected.

The New York Blood Center is counting on conscientious young people to help rebuild a blood donation program that has taken a blow the past two years.

The 25-acre property came under new ownership on Dec. 17, when China Orient Asset Management Co. Ltd. paid nearly $42 million to buy majority control of the parent company of Delaware-based Mercury International. But the property's LI-based caretaker said there are no plans to sell it.

As Suffolk cops continued the search for the killer of Yusef Staine, 20, of West Babylon, a Wheatley Heights man said losing his close friend "hurts so bad."

Four men forced their way into a home on Everglades Lane in Coram and shot one victim, police officials said.

"All he wanted to be was a fireman. His life was a fireman, and all his friends were firemen," Jesse Gerhard's father said.

The town and the fire company have agreed to name a receiver, FDNY Fire Academy Chief Frank Leeb, to oversee the shuttered fire company's operations, which was among the requirements to allow North Amityville to again answer emergency calls.  

A Long Island Rail Road passenger, who police identified as Yusef Staine, 20, of West Babylon, was shot dead by his traveling companion on a 1:51 a.m. Ronkonkoma train to Penn Station, Suffolk police said. The suspected shooter remained on the loose Wednesday night, according to police.

The fire broke out Wednesday night at a home on Magnolia Drive near Talbot Lane in Selden, according to Suffolk police.

The fire broke out Wednesday night at a home on Magnolia Drive near Talbot Lane in Selden, according to Suffolk police.