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Sun River Health Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Community Event
Sun River Health, a network of fifty community health centers located throughout the Hudson Valley, New York City, and Long Island, celebrated their 50th anniversary with a ribbon cutting ceremony at the organization’s first location – The Jeannette J. Phillips Community Health Center at 1037 Main Street in Peekskill – on Saturday, August 2 at 11am. Remarks were given by local officials as well as Sun River Health CEO Anne Kauffman Nolon, MPH. A free community event took place after the ceremony across the street in Pugsley Park. The event was open to all and included a bouncy house, food t…
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: Wild Flash Flooding Transforms Great Neck Plaza Train Station Into ‘Mini Niagara’
A shocking video captured the Great Neck Plaza train station looking more like Niagara Falls than a transit hub as torrential rains poured into the area Thursday afternoon, July 31. The viral Instagram clip, shared by WhatIsNewYork, shows water cascading down the station’s stairwells and platforms, creating what commenters dubbed the “Great Neck Falls” and “Neckagara Falls.” Others joked it looked like a scene from Universal Studios or a mini version of Niagara. View this post on Instagram A post shared by WhatIsNewYork (@whatisnewyork) A sim…
Patchogue-Medford, NY
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Impaired Driver Hits Pedestrian Crossing Near LIE, Injures Him In Medford: Police
A pedestrian was seriously hurt when a Long Island woman allegedly struck him while driving impaired near the Long Island Expressway, Suffolk County police announced on Sunday, July 27. The crash happened just after 12:30 a.m. on Express Drive South near Exit 64 in Medford, according to the release. Tia Gardner, 26, of Mastic, was heading east in a 2024 Hyundai Kona when she hit a man attempting to cross the roadway on foot, police said. The pedestrian, who has not been identified pending next-of-kin notification, was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital with serious injuries. Sixth P…
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George Santos Surrenders To NJ Prison: Inside His New Life Behind Bars
Disgraced former New York Rep. George Santos is officially trading Cameo videos for commissary lines. The ousted lawmaker, 37, surrendered to Federal Correctional Institution Fairton in New Jersey on Friday, July 25, to begin serving his seven-year sentence for wire fraud and identity theft. And, true to form, Santos did not go quietly: “Well, darlings… The curtain falls, the spotlight dims, and the rhinestones are packed,” Santos told his 211,000 followers on X the night before. “From the halls of Congress to the chaos of cable news, what a ride it’s been! Was it messy? Always. Glamorous…
Levittown, NY
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Thief Rams Levittown Home Depot Worker With Car, Leaves Him Disabled—Now He’s Heading To Prison
A shoplifter who ran down a Home Depot employee with his car on Long Island – leaving the victim permanently disabled – will spend decades in prison. Joshua Mitchell, 29, of Queens, was sentenced to 22 years behind bars in Nassau County Court on Thursday, July 24, after a jury convicted him of assault and related charges in May. During the trial, prosecutors recounted how an employee spotted Mitchell stuffing over $3,000 worth of high-value plumbing supplies into a bin before trying to exit the Levittown Home Depot store without paying on the morning of June 17, 2020. When an asset protect…
Mineola, NY
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Bomb Hoax Targeting LI Jewish Hospitals Lands Culprit In Federal Prison
An Oregon man who admitted to making hoax bomb threats against Jewish hospitals in New York will spend the next five years in prison. Domagoj Patkovic, 31, of Portland was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday, July 23, after pleading guilty to conspiring to make threats and conveying false information about explosives, as Daily Voice reported. Patkovic and others confessed to anonymously calling in bomb threats to hospitals and care centers with historic Jewish affiliations in New York City and on Long Island in 2021. During the calls, they threatened to detonate explosive de…
Westbury, NY
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Missing 14-Year-Old Girl From New Cassel May Have Been Heading To Roosevelt Field Mall
Nearly 48 hours have passed since a Long Island teenager went missing. Aylin Gonzales, 14, of New Cassel, was last seen at around 1 p.m. Sunday, July 20, according to Nassau County Police. Family members reported her missing the following day. Gonzales is 4-foot-8 and 100 pounds, with long dark hair, a medium complexion, and brown eyes. She was wearing a black t-shirt, black shorts, and black sneakers. She may have been heading to Hempstead or the Roosevelt Field Mall, police said. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Nassau County Police Department at 516-573-7347 or call 911…
Massapequa, NY
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Mom Killed On Way To Hobby Lobby: Impaired Driver Now Facing Years For Massapequa Crash
A Georgia woman will spend up to 10 years behind bars for causing a high-speed crash that killed a Long Island mother and injured another person. Rachel Lodice, 22, formerly of Jericho, was sentenced on Monday, July 21, in Nassau County Court after pleading guilty to a slew of charges stemming from the April 2024 crash that killed 64-year-old Cynthia Mitchell. Lodice, who had recently moved to Georgia from Jericho, was high on marijuana when she got behind the wheel of her 2023 Kia Rio and sped more than six miles down Hicksville Road in Massapequa — at times swerving into oncoming traffic,…
Patchogue-Medford, NY
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Cops ID Man, 25, Pulled From Pool After Medford Party
A 25-year-old man died after being pulled unresponsive from a backyard swimming pool after a party at a home on Long Island Saturday, July 19, authorities said. A homeowner on Bloomington Street in Medford found Sleigan Laroc's body in the water at approximately 9:35 p.m., Suffolk County police said. The homeowner pulled the Laroc's body from the water and began performing CPR. Officers from the Sixth Precinct arrived shortly after and took over life-saving efforts. Laroc, of Queens Village, was taken by ambulance to NYU Langone Hospital–Suffolk in Patchogue, where he was pronounced d…
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'Germans Should’ve Ended Your Kind': Elmont Therapist’s Hate-Fueled Message Sparks Outrage
A Long Island therapist is facing a massive backlash after sending a hate-filled message to a Jewish woman on Instagram that read in part: "Germans should have ended your kind," photos of the since-deleted post said. Now, an organized letter-writing campaign hopes to have her license to practice revoked. Gineth G. Nelson, who runs Whole Health Counseling in Elmont, Long Island, made the disturbing comment after a Jewish user posted a meme related to Hamas withholding the remains of Israeli hostages, according to Long Island Affair. In a now-deleted reply, Nelson allegedly wrote:&…
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Man Pulled Into MRI Machine Dies From Injuries After Freak Westbury Accident
A 61-year-old man who was critically injured after being pulled into an MRI machine on Long Island has died. The incident happened around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, at Nassau Open MRI on Old Country Road, as Daily Voice reported. The man entered the MRI room while a scan was already in progress—an area he was not authorized to be in. Because he was wearing a large metallic chain around his neck, the machine’s powerful magnetic force drew him in, causing what authorities described as a “medical episode.” Emergency personnel responded to the facility after a 911 caller reported a victim i…
Hicksville, NY
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$62K Psychic Scam Foiled At Hicksville Bank: Nassau Police
A Queens man posing as a spiritual guide was arrested after trying to scam a Long Island woman out of $62,000 for fortune telling services, Nassau County police announced on Friday, July 18. Hemanth Kumar Muneppa, 33, allegedly convinced a 68-year-old woman to pay him $20,000 for psychic services on Thursday, July 3, detectives said. When she returned for a follow-up session at Anjana Ji on South Broadway in Hicksville on Thursday, July 17, he demanded another $42,000. Muneppa drove the woman to a nearby bank on Broadway so she could withdraw the additional money, police explained. There, a…
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