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A suspect has been taken into custody on New York's Long Island in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders.
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School districts on Long Island have a week to respond to New York's ban on team names, mascots and logos with Native American imagery.
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The Safe Center in Bethpage is one of five domestic abuse agencies in the state — and the only one on Long Island — that will study the barriers that members of the LGBTQ community face when they need help in an abusive relationship.
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Environmental groups were concerned New York’s renewable energy goals would be in jeopardy if the bill failed in the assembly.
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The Brookhaven Landfill is expected to begin closing in 2024, and there isn’t the appetite to keep a smaller Babylon facility open after 2031. So, Long Island towns will need to keep talking trash to come up with a plan to work together, the private sectors and communities.
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Over the weekend, an Earth Day celebration on Long Island urged the Town of Brookhaven to close the landfill in Yaphank. Residents of North Bellport encouraged their community of color to join them in the streets to talk about “environmental racism” in their neighborhood.
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Residents who live near the Brookhaven Landfill are concerned that keeping the facility open for a few more years will endanger their community’s health for decades.
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The Seatuck Environmental Association will launch a three-year survey on Long Island to find 27 land and semi-aquatic mammals on their "look-for" list.
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Over the last month, six humpback and sperm whales have washed up dead between Long Island and New Jersey, a region being surveyed for offshore wind development called the New York Bight. In response, ocean advocacy groups are calling for a federal investigation.
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New York can for now continue to enforce a sweeping new law that bans guns from "sensitive places" such as schools, playgrounds and Times Square, the Supreme Court said Wednesday, allowing the law to be in force while a lawsuit over it plays out.