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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)
Yankees hit five home runs in an inning Thursday
NEW YORK (AP) — The Yankees hit five run home runs in an inning for the first time in their history. Brett Gardner, DJ LeMehieu and Luke Voit homered on consecutive pitches in the fourth inning from Toronto’s Chase Anderson. Voit’s home run was his major league-leading 20th. Aaron Hicks struck out, and Giancarlo Stanton…
Cuomo aide: NY won’t consider slashing budget until election
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The governor’s budget director said Wednesday it’s “premature” for some school districts to have laid off workers, and said New York will wait until after the November election to decide whether to slash state spending. Budget director Robert Mujica told The Associated Press that the state has withheld $300 million in…
Old trains get new life as artificial reefs in LI water
WANTAGH, N.Y. (AP) — Barges dumped old rail cars into the Atlantic Ocean as part of New York’s efforts to build artificial reefs that attract fish and divers. Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke Wednesday from the stern of a moving boat as barges began to drop steel rail cars that weighed as much as 21 tons…
West Coast wildfire smoke causing overcast skies in NY
UNDATED (AP) — The smoke from dozens of wildfires in the western United States is stretching clear across the country — and even pushing into Mexico, Canada and Europe. While the dangerous plumes are forcing people inside along the West Coast, residents thousands of miles away in the East are seeing unusually hazy skies and…