The state Friday reported sustained growth in numbers of students earning college-prep Regents diplomas, both on Long Island and elsewhere, but without releasing detailed test trends that have accompanied such reports in the past.
Suffolk police officer Kevin Wustenhoff will receive a treasured memento -- the police badge worn by his father, slain in 1990 by a bomb that destroyed his unmarked police car -- in a ceremony Friday at the department's Yaphank headquarters.
A Long Island man has been arrested and charged with painting graffiti with the tag "VELO" on railroad structures and private buildings in Astoria, Queens, costing thousands of dollars in removal costs, the Queens district attorney's office said.
Excitement swept through a Mineola courtroom Thursday morning when the jury in a civil sex abuse case against the Diocese of Rockville Centre sent a note to the judge that suggested a verdict was finally near, on the seventh day of deliberations.
Saying he was frustrated with the public's fascination with low-grade celebrities in a time of war, the city manager of Long Beach ordered Thursday that city flags be flown at half-staff to honor soldiers who died in Iraq.
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