Tiffany Cusaac-Smith
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- Sep 29, 2026
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NYS Department of Labor system upgrade to delay unemployment benefits in November (opens the original)
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Jobless New Yorkers will temporarily be unable to receive or apply for benefits in November as the state labor department overhauls its 50-year-old unemployment insurance system, labor officials said Monday. Starting at 5 p.m. on Nov. 2, and continuing for about nine to 12 days, the New York State Department of Labor will pause unemployment services by phone and the internet, the agency said in a news release Monday. During that time, people seeking benefits will be unable to file for unemployme
Battery fire in Syosset home displaces four people (opens the original)
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Overcharged batteries likely caused a Sunday morning fire in the garage of a Syosset home, displacing four people, fire officials said. No one was injured in the blaze that started at 4:33 a.m. in the two-story private home on Cambria Road, the Nassau County Fire Marshal's Office said in an email. The Red Cross was not required. A nor'easter, which brought about coastal flooding, extensive blackouts and toppled trees to Long Island this weekend, did not seem to play a role in the fire, officials
15 years ago, an SAT cheating scandal on Long Island changed test taking nationwide (opens the original)
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Samuel Eshaghoff remembers being shocked when, 15 years ago, the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office called his family’s Great Neck home and told his mother he was suspected of being the ringleader of an SAT cheating operation. “Couldn’t believe it. There was no precedent to suggest that anything I’d been doing was against any laws,” Eshaghoff, now 34, told Newsday, days before the anniversary of a scandal that led to the arrests of himself and teenagers who had paid him between $1,500 and
Yankee Stadium cooling tower tests positive for Legionella bacteria, city says (opens the original)
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People who attended a game or any other event at Yankee Stadium since late last month should watch for flu-like symptoms of the respiratory infection known as Legionnaires’ disease, which has already hospitalized several people and caused one death in a South Bronx outbreak, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said Sunday. Ten cooling towers in the Bronx have tested positive for the Legionella bacteria that causes the ailment, the health department said in a news release. T
Michael Peattie, of Sayville, dies after crash into Bethpage fire station, police say (opens the original)
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A Sayville man who crashed a car into a Bethpage fire station on Wednesday morning has died, police said. Michael Peattie, 41, was a driving a 2024 Mazda east on Stewart Avenue at 10:30 a.m. when he veered off the roadway, hit a utility pole and then crashed into Bethpage Fire Department Station 4, Nassau County Police said in a news release. Peattie, who experienced severe trauma, was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said. Tiffany Cusaac-Smith is a general assignment rep
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