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Environment Regional 

Long Islanders Push to Block Wind Farm Transmission Line

February 2, 2021February 3, 2021 NINA PULLANO
Long Island, New York, renewable energy, wind power

A group of residents say local officials failed to properly assess environmental and safety hazards in granting an easement to build a power line through the town of Wainscott on Long Island.

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Civil Rights Entertainment 

Celebrity Nephew

September 9, 2020September 9, 2020 BRIEF
Assault, automotive, celebrity, Long Island

Three weeks after Meryl Streep’s nephew was arrested on Long Island, the college student whom Charles Harrison Streep is accused of beating up in a fit of road rage filed suit for punitive damages.

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Uncategorized 

DA: Man Faked Death to Avoid Jail but Typo Gave Him Away

July 22, 2020July 22, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Forgery, Long Island, New York, theft

A Long Island criminal defendant tried faking his death to avoid a jail sentence, but the phony death certificate his lawyer submitted had a glaring spelling error that made it a dead giveaway for a fraud, prosecutors said Tuesday.

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Criminal Regional 

New York Prosecutors Celebrate Unprecedented MS-13 Takedown

December 20, 2019December 21, 2019 AMANDA OTTAWAY
arrests, drugs, Gangs, Long Island, murder, New York

Wielding a machete in its sheath for a photo op, a Long Island prosecutor announced Friday that nearly a hundred drug dealers and MS-13 members are off the streets after the biggest gang bust of its kind.

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Appeals Civil Rights 

Door to Liability Opened in NY Tenant-Harassment Case

March 4, 2019March 5, 2019 NICK RUMMELL
discrimination, housing, Landlords, Long Island, New York, race, Second Circuit

Reviving claims that a landlord had the power to stop one racist tenant from targeting another, the Second Circuit ruled Monday that the landlord may be liable for failure to correct a hostile housing environment.

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Environment 

Feds Accuse Native American of Polluting Wetlands

July 9, 2018July 9, 2018 AMANDA OTTAWAY
construction, Long Island, Native Americans, New York, pollution, tribal issues, water, wetlands

The United States brought a federal complaint Monday against a Native American who it says has ignored a demand to clean up years of construction waste dumped into Long Island wetlands.

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Civil Rights Government Politics 

Long Island Latinos Challenge Islip Board Make-Up

June 20, 2018June 21, 2018 AMANDA OTTAWAY
Latinos, Long Island, race, Voting

Calling for the chance to elect town board representatives by district, Latinos living in Islip, New York, brought a federal complaint to overhaul the town’s at-large voting system.

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Personal Injury 

Overpass Collision

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018 BRIEF
bridges, car collisions, Long Island, New York, NYC

Journey Bus Lines was hit with a lawsuit Friday from one of the children who was injured this week when a bus that was too tall to ride on the Southern State Parkway crashed into the underside of the Eagle Avenue overpass.

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Appeals Environment Government Health 

Second Circuit Quashes Suit Over Tainted Long Island Water

March 2, 2018 AMANDA OTTAWAY
Long Island, pollution, Second Circuit, statute of limitations, water

There is no dispute that decades of industrial work contaminated the water in Bethpage, but the Second Circuit ruled Friday that the Long Island community waited too long to seek damages from Northrup Grumman.

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Environment 

Superfund Cleanup

February 23, 2018February 23, 2018 BRIEF
EPA, Long Island, superfund, water

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a $13.5 million plan Friday to clean up contaminated groundwater in the eastern area of the Old Roosevelt Field, a Superfund site in Garden City, New York.

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Appeals Energy Government 

Hurricane Sandy Fallout

February 20, 2018February 20, 2018 BRIEF
electricity, Fire, Hurricanes, Long Island, New York, Storms

New York’s highest court advanced negligence claims Tuesday by Long Islanders who say the the Long Island Power Authority and National Grid Electric Services failed de-energize the Rockaway Peninsula before or after Hurricane Sandy made landfall in October 2012.

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Environment Government Health 

Long Islanders Issue Call to Arms on ‘Radioactive Plume’

February 2, 2018February 2, 2018 AMANDA OTTAWAY
cancer, Long Island, manufacturing, New York, pollution, toxic waste, U.S. Navy, water

Long Island is on the brink of “environmental catastrophe,” residents claim in a federal complaint, accusing New York and U.S. authorities of letting radioactive waste spread in the groundwater.

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Civil Rights Education 

After NY Teen’s Murder, School Faces Blame for Gang Violence

December 12, 2017December 13, 2017 AMANDA OTTAWAY
bullying, Gangs, Long Island, murder, New York, schools, teens

Saying her teenage daughter was “brutally mutilated and murdered” by members of MS-13, a Long Island mother claims in a federal complaint that school officials let gang bullying turn fatal.

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Civil Rights Regional 

Immigrants Challenge NY County’s Detainer Policy

November 20, 2017November 21, 2017 AMANDA OTTAWAY
arrests, ICE, immigration, Long Island, National6, New York, Trump administration

The Central American Refugee Center filed suit Monday over a police policy in Nassau County, New York, that requires federal authorities to be notified when an immigrant is arrested.

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Criminal Government Regional 

Long Island Prosecutor Accused of Covering Up Police Brutality

October 25, 2017March 15, 2019 JOSH RUSSELL
corruption, cover up, Long Island, New York, Obstruction, Police, prosecutors, witnesses

A Long Island district attorney and one of his chief aides were indicted Wednesday on accusations that they covered up a former police chief’s beating of a handcuffed suspect five years ago.

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Environment Government Politics 

New York Sues EPA for Allowing Dumping in Long Island Sound

August 18, 2017August 18, 2017 CHRISTINE STUART
dumping, EPA, Long Island, New York, Scott Pruitt, water

New York state on Thursday followed through on its promise to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its Administrator Scott Pruitt for allowing dredged sediments to be dumped into eastern Long Island Sound.

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Environment 

NY AG Lowers Boom on Long Island Dumping Legacy

May 4, 2017May 5, 2017 ADAM KLASFELD
Asbestos, dumping, Eric Schneiderman, Long Island, NYC, parks, pollution, superfund, toxic waste

Gathering reporters at a Long Island park sullied in an asbestos-dumping scandal, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman unveiled federal charges Thursday against the dozens he said left tens of thousands of tons of deadly debris there in 2014.

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Civil Rights Government International Politics 

Invoking Salvadoran Gangs, Sessions Roils Long Island Latinos

April 28, 2017April 28, 2017 ADAM KLASFELD
Gangs, immigrants, Jeff Sessions, Long Island, New York, NYC, speeches, Trump administration

Set to speak about Salvadoran gang violence Friday on Long Island, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rubbed old wounds in a nearby immigrant community still scarred by an infamous 2008 hate crime.

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Civil Rights Government 

Gangsters’ Target Sues Police for a Gun Permit

March 29, 2017March 29, 2017 CHRISTINE STUART
concealed-carry, Guns, Long Island, New York, Second Amendment

A Long Island man sued his police commissioner for refusing to give him a concealed carry permit, claiming gang members who threatened to kill him two decades ago are being released from prison.

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Civil Rights Criminal 

Long Island Murder Called a Family Affair

March 7, 2017 NICK RUMMELL
cover up, Long Island, murder, New York, Police

Taking a bloody family saga to court, the children of a man murdered by his nephew on Long Island say police helped cover up for other relatives who were in on the plot.

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