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Nora Toscano

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
11
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Sep 29, 2026
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Nora Toscano

    5 ways the college search process has changed for Gen Z (opens the original)

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    This generation of high school students is navigating a college application process worlds different from the one their parents faced. Over 1,000 U.S. colleges now accept applications through the Common Application, a standardized online portal. After many universities went test-optional during the COVID-19 pandemic, some are now requiring students to submit SAT and ACT scores again. And students are increasingly applying for early admissions decisions as colleges seek to fill their seats earlie

  2. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · Nora Toscano and Matthew Chayes

    NY to pay for lawyers for children at risk of deportation (opens the original)

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    New York will pay $7.25 million for immigration lawyers to help defend the state’s 1,400 unaccompanied minors who are facing deportation proceedings alone, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Wednesday, saying she’s filling a gap left by President Donald Trump’s administration. The immigrants — all under 18, some just a few years old — are being forced to navigate the immigration bureaucracy by themselves, a prospect that even an adult would find intimidating and insurmountable, she said. "Imagine be

  3. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · Nora Toscano

    Northwell medical team, LI homeless coalition take healthcare to unhoused people (opens the original)

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    At a wooden picnic table in Amityville’s Peterkin Park, nurse practitioner Jennifer Stevens asks John Santomauro how he has been feeling since changing some of his daily medications. Another Northwell employee takes Santomauro’s blood pressure as Stevens listens, jotting down Santomauro’s responses on a laptop. After completing the checkup, Stevens gives Santomauro a drawstring bag with water, sunscreen, T-shirts, a cooling towel and a first-aid kit before he and his partner, Natasha Rodriguez,

  4. Article · Aug 9, 2026 · Nora Toscano

    Mesita, a Garden City restaurant, in cleanup mode after electrical fire (opens the original)

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    Employees of a Garden City Mexican restaurant, Mesita, with an assist from staff of a nearby eatery, spent Sunday closed to the public and in cleanup mode after a Saturday electrical fire. Meli, a Greek restaurant on Franklin Avenue that shares a wall with Mesita, also was closed Sunday because of the fire. No one could be seen inside, but a sign posted on the front door told customers the restaurant lacked power. The Garden City Fire Department responded to an automatic fire alarm and a phone c

  5. Article · Aug 7, 2026 · Nora Toscano

    58 years after Riverhead man was shot helping a fallen comrade, Vietnam vet awarded Purple Heart (opens the original)

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    It had been 58 years since Daniel Knote was shot in the leg while running into the line of fire to help a wounded comrade in Vietnam. But Friday, tears came to the eyes of the Riverhead man as he looked out at the family, friends and fellow veterans gathered to honor his heroism that day. Stopping several times to compose himself, Knote accepted a long-overdue Purple Heart at Rocky Point VFW Post 6249. And afterward he expressed astonishment at the crowd who had showed up. "To come here, I was a

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