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WESTBURY, N.Y. (AP) — A witness told police that the driver who caused a deadly crash by trying to go around a lowered railroad gate on New York‘s Long Island was fleeing the scene of an earlier crash, a police official said Wednesday. “The witness said that individual was involved in an accident and went […]

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Two White officers in Long Island, N.Y., allegedly laughed when Ronald Lanier identified himself as a former law enforcement official.

A hate crime is being investigated in Lindenhurst, New York after a black family received an anonymous note urging them to leave the town. According…

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NEW YORK (AP) — The chief negotiator for Long Island Rail Road unions said Thursday they were “very, very close” to averting a weekend strike at the nation’s largest commuter railroad after Gov. Andrew Cuomo became directly involved in the talks. Anthony Simon spoke before heading into discussions with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority at Cuomo’s […]

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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Students at a suburban New York high school dressed in green on Monday — the school’s color — in memory of five teenagers who died over the weekend in a head-on collision with a sport utility vehicle on a busy street in this Long Island community. “They’re young kids who had […]

Two black orderlies are alleging that an anesthesiologist and technician at North Shore University Hospital harassed them with nooses and racist comments, according to a…