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Double-amputee Marine vet joins New York police department

BRENTWOOD, N.Y. – The wounded warrior is now a cop – and he’ll be walking the beat on titanium legs. Matias Ferreira, a former U.S. Marine Corps lance corporal who lost his legs b...

DATE: Mar 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Once part of sideshow, former preemies praise doctor years later

LONG BEACH, N.Y. – At age 95, Lucille Horn often reflects on her long, full life, with a husband and five children, and how it might not have happened if not for the renegade doctor who put ...

DATE: Aug 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

A Triple Crown celebration – finally

NEW YORK – From Belmont Park to Fenway Park and far beyond, it was a party that horse racing had been waiting 37 years to throw. All over, there were cheers as American Pharoah ga...

DATE: Jun 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Belmont shrinks crowd to ease race-day chaos

NEW YORK – Big changes are coming to Belmont for American Pharoah’s attempt to break a 37-year Triple Crown losing streak. One of them: a smaller crowd. Track managers ...

DATE: May 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

The D’oh of Homer: Professors employ ‘Simpsons’

Universities use satirical references from show to teach

DATE: Dec 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Rain, snow to challenge eastern holiday travelers

MINEOLA, N.Y. – Some Thanksgiving travelers along the East Coast headed out early because of a forecast calling for a nor’easter that will bring rain and snow. “I was really gett...

DATE: Nov 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nor’easter on menu for Thanksgiving

‘I would pack your patience’

DATE: Nov 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Governors stress home quarantine for Ebola workers

NEW YORK – State leaders in New York and New Jersey are at odds with scientists over Ebola as the states’ governors back 21-day quarantines for medical workers returning from West Africa, wh...

DATE: Oct 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Disease expert argues against Ebola quarantine

He warns fight against virus may be stymied

DATE: Oct 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

College food pantries on the rise

STONY BROOK, N.Y. – Days after biology major Gillian Carll arrived at Stony Brook University last fall, she encountered a young woman on a bench outside her dormitory who said she had nothin...

DATE: Mar 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Mentally disabled newlyweds find home

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. – It was moving day Monday for a newlywed mentally disabled couple from New York who launched a court fight to be able to live together. Paul Forziano and his wif...

DATE: Jul 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Family

Missile theory revived in 1996 Flight 800 crash

MINEOLA, N.Y. – Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theor...

DATE: Jun 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World