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A sign on the stage's back wall bears Blakeman's name and dwarfs a smaller sign naming the Chapin theater.

The county's largest public employee union approved the new contract after a six-year stalemate.

The 255,000-square-foot family and matrimonial courthouse is nearly two years overdue and tens of millions of dollars over budget.

Repairs to sinkholes and a police station damaged in a fire are in a $220 million capital budget approved by Nassau legislative committees Monday.

Patrol cars will stock the epinephrine auto-injectors to treat allergic reactions, but the Suffolk executive says the legislation can't take effect until changes are made to a state law.

Home prices have soared since tax rolls were frozen three years ago, and the county has been issuing tax breaks to many who have grieved their assessments, shifting the tax burden. NewsdayTV's Macy Egeland and Newsday politics reporter Scott Eidler explain.

A Jericho homeowner is asking that the county be held in civil and criminal contempt for charging a reduced version of a real estate fee the courts had overturned. 

Franzese said the Nassau district attorney's office had withdrawn its offer for her to lead its public corruption bureau. A district attorney spokesman declined to comment.

Nassau County sued to stop a portion of the annual hip-hop festival, scheduled for Sunday at the UBS Arena.

The share of property owners who have won reductions remains persistently high, four years after the county spent more than $5 million to fix the system, according to new data.