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Giants’ Saquon Barkley out for season with torn ACL
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley will miss the rest of the season with a major injury to his right knee. The Giants announced Monday morning Barkley tore the anterior cruciate ligament in the knee on Sunday against the Chicago Bears. The 2018 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year…
Feds threaten funds to NYC
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department identified New York City, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle as three cities that could have federal funding slashed under a memorandum by President Donald Trump that sought to identify localities that permit “anarchy, violence and destruction in American cities.” The designation drew immediate criticism from local elected officials. It comes…
NY halts commercial evictions
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York commercial tenants are protected from evictions and foreclosures through Oct. 20 under a new executive order announced Monday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the executive order helps commercial tenants and mortgagors hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and economic restrictions to reduce its spread. He said those tenants can use the…
The Tesla Science Center in Shoreham has been vandalized
The Tesla Science Center in Shoreham, has been vandalized. Officials say sometime between September 7 and September 12, 2020, vandals broke a window at the science center at 5 Randall Road and painted graffiti inside the building. Police estimate the cost of the damage around three thousand dollars. Authorities are asking anyone with information to…
Police ask for help to find missing LI teenager
Officials are Long Island are looking for a missing teenager. According to detectives, 15-year-old, Victoria Mujica was last seen leaving her Valley Stream home on Sunday, September 20, 2020, just after 2pm. Victoria is described as a white female, 5’5 and 130lbs. Victoria has brown hair and brown eyes. Detectives request anyone with information regarding the…
Selden man dies after being shot at in moving car in Central Islip
Suffolk County police say a passenger of a vehicle was shot and killed Saturday night when someone opened fire on it while it was in motion. Police say on September 19, 2020 around 11:30pm, a 2008 Volkswagen Jetta, was driving on Carleton Avenue, just north of the Southern State Parkway, near Hoppen Drive when it…
Suffolk SPCA offers reward to find person who threw a kitten out of a moving vehicle on the Northern State Parkway
The Suffolk County SPCA is offering a $2,000.00 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for throwing a live kitten from a moving vehicle on the Northern State Parkway. SPCA officials say last week, someone called them and reported that they saw someone throw a throw a black and…
A statue of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, will be built in Brooklyn
NEW YORK (AP) — A statue of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be built in her native Brooklyn. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the memorial Saturday. Ginsburg died Friday of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. A legal trailblazer and champion of women’s rights, she became the high court’s…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, has died at her home in Washington. She was 87. Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said. Ginsburg announced in July that she was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for lesions on her…
Covid-19 infection rate below 1% statewide, higher rates reported for Long Island
On Thursday, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo said that the COVID-19 infection rate for New York State, remained below 1 percent on Wednesday but on Long Island, the infection rate has been over 1 percent. On Long Island the COVID rate was 1.2% on Monday, 1.3% on Tuesday and 1.1% on Wednesday. Positive coronavirus cases have…
MTA says they need $12 billion dollars in federal funding
MTA officials on Thursday warned that they are in dire need of 12 billion dollars in federal funding to continue operations into 2021. If the money doesn’t come through from the federal government, the MTA might need to make serious cuts to service and to jobs. Photo credit: (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
NY Islanders lose game 6 of NHL Conference
The Tampa Bay Lightning took game six of the Eastern Conference finals over the New York Islanders, 2-1. Tampa Bay will now face the Dallas Stars in the Stanley Cup finals. Photo credit: (File Photo: AP Photo/Kathy Willens)