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Students preparing for a new school year received free backpacks filled with notebooks, pens, markers and more Saturday — and some even got a fresh haircut.

Long Island school elections, 2021-22 Print Email School district residents go to the polls on May 18 to vote on budgets and members of their local boards for the coming school year. Below are the details on the ballots in 124 districts. Results will be posted here as they become available. Read our full coverage of the results here. The Great Neck, Lawrence, Hewlett-Woodmere and West Hempstead districts received permission from the state to hold voting on May 11, before the statewide date of...

Elsy Rodriguez-Garcia, 27, pleaded guilty in a New York court on Thursday She will be sentenced to two to six years in prison as part of the plea deal Rodriguez-Garcia separated from her husband in January 2019 He was visiting Ecuador in the summer of 2019 and she arranged a hit Rodriguez-Garcia wanted his mother and his five-year-old daughter to be killed She hoped that he would spend more time with her, without his mother around  He learnt of her scheme and tipped off police back in New Yor...

Huntington Station Woman Sought Killing Of Ex-Husband's Mom: SCDA - Huntington, NY - The woman pleaded guilty to hiring hit men to kill her ex-husband's mother. She also sought the killing of her ex's daughter, the DA said.