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Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said the cyberattack that has plagued the county for the last four months started much sooner — as early as December of last year.
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A fifth of Suffolk County residents live in poverty according to a legislative report.
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In a hearing about Nassau County’s jail this week, lawmakers focused their questions on staffing levels, cutting costs and increasing visits for families.
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Nassau County lawmakers will hear testimony Wednesday on a staffing shortage at the county’s jail that critics say has created a frustrating and restrictive visiting policy — with no weekend visits, no televisits for family and evening visits just two days a week.
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Nearly 14% of New Yorkers live in poverty, which is above the national average according to a report by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.
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A Suffolk County judge sentenced Michael Valva 25 years to life for the murder of his 8-year-old son, Thomas.
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Convicted serial killer Richard Cottingham admitted in court to killing five Long Island women in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Suffolk County will begin notifying nearly 26,000 county employees that their Social Security numbers may have been exposed in the cyberattack in September.
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A memo obtained by Newsday offers the most in-depth look yet at Suffolk County’s cyberattackin September that has stymied many local government functions.
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The Nassau County Police Department blamed its disproportionate arrests of Black and Hispanic people on the large number of malls along the Queens-Nassau border.