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Determined to narrow the tech gender gap, Lilah Lindemann, a junior at Miller Place High School, enlisted the help of tech firms such as Microsoft to host free virtual workshops, where girls learned to code games and build apps. 

According to court filings and statements by the defendant, Suffolk police found the victim covered with blood in the backyard of a North Bellport home on June 29, 2019.

The 32-year-old Shirley man took electrical wire on six occasions from Home Depots in Patchogue and Bellport before his arrest, police said.

The soonest the Food and Drug Administration would be able to approve such a vaccine would be "at best" late March, especially with the time needed to get it "into the supply chain," Scott Gottlieb, who is also the former FDA commissioner, told CBS' "Face the Nation."

After the chance for overnight snow showers, Monday will be mostly sunny but cold with a high under freezing.

The company has put on hold a plan to pay employees up to $1,000 in a special one-time incentive to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, after the Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers.

Andrew Quattrone, 38, who already faced criminal charges in Suffolk County for allegedly soliciting sex from a 15-year-old girl in Babylon last spring, appeared for arraignment in a Nassau County court.

The program includes subjects in the humanities, sociology, literature, creative writing and history, as well as job skills, with the goal of helping inmates avoid future incarceration by acquiring skills to help them get their lives back on track.

Last fiscal year, dogs helped agricultural specialists at Kennedy Airport confiscate thousands of food items, plants and animals that, if they get into the U.S., could cause enormous damage.

Like other hospitals across the region, Long Island Jewish in New Hyde Park is enduring a third major COVID-19 wave. Unlike the ones last winter and in spring 2020, this time almost all patients had access to a vaccine that is highly effective at preventing hospitalization.

Saturday should see highs in the 20s with wind chills between -5 and 15 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

Hochul touted elements of her $216.3 billion budget plan that would fund roads, affordable housing, the Long Island Rail Road and water quality improvements.

In the months after surgeons removed a golf-ball-sized tumor from Luca Zayas' infant brain, he gained the strength to sit and crawl, milestones his parents had feared he might not achieve for years. 

The FBI said that a notebook found near the body of Laundrie — the "person of interest" in the killing of his then-fiancee and fellow Bayport-Blue Point High School graduate, Gabby Petito — contained statements "claiming responsibility for Ms. Petito's death."

Saturday will be sunny with a high temperature of 29 degrees, but the wind chill will be between zero and 10 degrees, the National Weather Service said.

An unvaccinated senior is 49 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than someone 65 and older who received a vaccine booster shot, according to newly released federal data.

Kristian Falterman, 40, committed a robbery at a smoke shop and two robberies a week apart at a spa, Suffolk County police said.

Karen Greve Milton spent four decades in public service at the local, state and federal level before starting this week at the Diocese of Rockville Centre's Department. Her mission: Stopping the stream of Catholic schools closing on Long Island because of plummeting enrollment.

Four events were approved over the objections of several residents who voiced concerns about noise disruptions in their neighborhoods and environmental worries regarding the events' effect on the EPCAL property.

The National Weather Service warned of icy spots on untreated roadways created by severe cold moving into the region Thursday night and making for a potentially tricky Friday morning commute.