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Full-time service coming to LIRR’s Elmont-UBS Arena station
The Long Island railroad has announced plans to launch full-time service at its Elmont-UBS Arena station on starting on Feb. 27.Since opening in October 2021, the Elmont-UBS Arena station has only been served during events at the arena. Local residents and elected officials have pushed for the railroad to provide a full-time station to serve…
Fond remembrances for Jimmy Carter after entering hospice
ATLANTA (AP) — Dozens of well-wishers made the pilgrimage Sunday to The Carter Center in Atlanta, as prayers and memories of former President Jimmy Carter’s legacy were offered up at his small Baptist church in Plains, Georgia, a day after he entered hospice care. Among those paying homage was his niece, who noted the 39th…
Ant-Man opens big at box office with $104M for ‘Quantumania’
NEW YORK (AP) — Phase five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe may have gotten off to a rocky start, but Ant-Man is bigger than ever at the box office. “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” opened with $104 million in domestic ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, easily surpassing the box-office debuts of the previous…
Richard Belzer, stand-up comic and TV detective, dies at 78
NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Belzer, the longtime stand-up comedian who became one of TV’s most indelible detectives as John Munch in “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Law & Order: SVU,” has died. He was 78. Belzer died Sunday at his home in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, in southern France, his longtime friend Bill Scheft said. Scheft,…
JFK Airport sufferers power outage Thursday
Terminal One at JFK Airport suffered a total power outage Thursday, affecting thousands of international travelers.A small fire early Thursday morning caused the disruption, according to the Fire Department.All outbound flights were canceled Thursday with some international flights being diverted to Newark and Boston.The Port Authority confirmed that the fire was caused by an electrical…
Federal prosecutor asks House to investigate Santos’ marriage
A New York Times report claims a federal prosecutor has submitted a letter to ethics watchdogs in the House of Representatives questioning whether Congressman George Santos’ seven-year marriage was all a scheme to get his wife U.S. citizenship.The prosecutor claims Santos and his ex-wife from Brazil lived separate lives as he dated men throughout the…
Biden wants ‘sharper rules’ on unknown aerial objects
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that the U.S. is developing “sharper rules” to track, monitor and potentially shoot down unknown aerial objects, following three weeks of high-stakes drama sparked by the discovery of a suspected Chinese spy balloon transiting much of the country. The president has directed national security adviser Jake Sullivan…
Tim McCarver, big league catcher and broadcaster, dies at 81
NEW YORK (AP) — Tim McCarver, the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who during 60 years in baseball won two World Series titles with the St. Louis Cardinals and had a long run as the one of the country’s most recognized, incisive and talkative television commentators, died Thursday. He was 81. McCarver’s death…
Breeze Airways adding two new destinations from Long Island MacArthur
Breeze Airways announced it is adding two new seasonal flights out of Long Island MacArthur Airport starting in the late spring. Nonstop flights to Richmond, Virginia, and Pittsburgh will fly from May through Sept. 5. Flights to Richmond will start May 18, and flights to Pittsburgh begin May 25. An Islip spokesperson said the routes…
Dem-led NY Senate rejects gov’s top judge pick
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s Senate rejected Gov. Kathy Hochul’s nominee to be the state’s chief judge Wednesday, an extraordinary defeat for the state’s top Democrat delivered by legislative leaders in her own party. The vote rejecting Judge Hector LaSalle as the head the state Court of Appeals and overseer of New York’s judicial…
Hollywood sex symbol Raquel Welch dies at 82
NEW YORK (AP) — Raquel Welch, whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film “One Million Years B.C.” would propel her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and ’70s, has died. She was 82. Welch died early Wednesday after a brief illness, according to her agent, Stephen LaManna…
White supremacist gets life in prison for Buffalo massacre
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday after relatives of his victims confronted him with pain and rage caused by his racist attack. Anger briefly turned physical at Payton Gendron’s sentencing when a man in the audience…