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After a day poring over new legislation to revamp LIPA, elected officials Tuesday gave Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's latest plan a better-than-even chance of passing, but said key questions remain. Several state and local officials expressed disappointment the...

Harvesting of shellfish and carnivorous gastropods will be temporarily banned on almost 1,400 acres of water off Long Island, starting at sunrise Friday, state officials said Thursday. Saxitoxin, a marine biotoxin that can be dangerous to people, has...

William Floyd High School, once again, is the mock trial champ of Long Island. A 15-student team from the Mastic Beach school beat Our Lady of Mercy Academy in Syosset last month to win the 2013 Long Island Regional Championship at the Suffolk County...

As a Russian-born doctor, Leonilda Giedraitis-Svilas cared for people in refugee camps after World War II. She would later treat American war veterans on Long Island as a longtime physician at the Northport VA Medical Center. She died Friday at her East...

Tiffany L. Chan, O.D., an instructor of ophthalmology at Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine, is seeing patients at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Bel Air (formerly Parris-Castoro Eye Care Center). Chan specializes in visual function and...

Break out the bug spray. West Nile Virus is back on Long Island. "The confirmation of West Nile virus in a mosquito pool indicates that the virus is actively circulating within the mosquito population," said Dr. James Tomarken, the Commissioner of...

Parents, if your children attend Suffolk County schools, know that four times as many students are coming down with whooping cough this year over last year. More than 200 cases have been reported in Suffolk County alone, and it's highly contagious....

A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims from data compiled by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The overall death toll from the attacks stands at 2,977 -- including 2,753 killed as a result of the attacks at the World Trade Center, 184...

Police are investigating after a bomb threat at a Long Island middle school prompted a mass evacuation Thursday morning. According to authorities, students and staff from East Northport Middle School were evacuated some time before 12 p.m. after the...

Sen. John Flanagan (R-C-East Northport), already mentioned in this space as a possible future statewide-office prospect for the Republicans, has been gripping and grinning with some of the prominent civic types in western New York alongside Majority...

Give us your stories.... (Pix: Bill Davis, Newsday) Are you out there? Good! WLIW/21 wants you, needs you, will make you a star. The channel's putting together a doc on the town of Huntington - not unlike "New York......