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New Yorker by way of Colorado and SoCal. Breaking News Reporter for @Newsday John.Asbury @Newsday .com
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More than 1,000 NYPD officers watch the arrival of Officer Jonathan Diller at the Massapequa Funeral Home after he was shot and killed Monday night in Far Rockaway
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Laura Curran and Laura Gillen declare victory with Judi Bosworth. “Looks like Lady’s night in Nassau County.”
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BREAKING: Mount Sinai closes Long Beach ER up to a month due to shortage of vaccinated nurses, officials say via
@Newsday
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White House
@PressSec
@KJP46
, an alumnus of Hempstead's Franklin Elementary School, made a surprise phone call this week to Hempstead High School's valedictorian Daniella Marroquin, telling her to “dream big.” W/
@ceciliadowdnews
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@SenSchumer
calls on Congress to extend the National Flood insurance program before it runs out Sept. 30
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This is the biggest victory for Charles Barkley since the Toon Squad.
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The Conoco gas station in Rockville Centre captured the tanker crash on surveillance video before it burst into flames in Sunrise Highway
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Per
@transition2017
pool: Trump Tower at 56th and 5th is being evacuated. The PEOTUS is in Florida.
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More than 1,600 students are walking out of Plainview-Old Bethpage High in a school sanctioned demonstration to
#EndGunViolence
. The 21-minute demonstration includes 21 empty chairs with roses for the victims of
#Uvalde
Texas.
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Sierra Clayborn, 27, of Moreno Valley killed in San Bernardino shooting
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The movement to pardon Jack Johnson for Jim Crow laws has gone through several presidents:
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President George H.W. Bush’s service dog Sully in Suffolk County to honor a “Band of Brothers” veteran
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With 94% of the vote in Bruce Blakeman leads Nassau County Executive by 10,000 votes and declares victory
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@NYGovCuomo
“I believe President Trump should resign, if he doesn’t resign he should be impeached. We don’t stand for this as a nation.”
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This is probably why Trump is tweeting about Long Island pizza.
Just saw the owner on
@Varneyco
on
@FoxBusiness
. The Cancel Culture Mobs came for him...and the local community backed him. Love this guy... and I am going to be driving out of my way to buy a lot of pizza there later this week! Patio Pizza in St. James on Long Island...
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Each mourner will be given a prayer card with a painting of
#GabbyPetito
and a poem written by her father.
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Nassau County Executive-elect Bruce Blakeman said he will direct the health department in January not to enforce
@GovKathyHochul
mask mandate indoors.
“We are not in crisis here in Nassau County.”
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Some personal news: We’ve acquired a player to be named later.
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“If you are at a rate that will overwhelm the hospitals, you must shut down all but essential businesses - we don’t want to do that again,”
@NYGovCuomo
said. “Then change your behavior.”
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Long Beach demonstrators led by Sen.
@toddkaminsky
chanting
#BlackLivesMatter
#georgefloyd
and “We want justice, if we don’t get it shut it down.”
#liprotests
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“I can’t breathe!” chants at a growing
#BlackLivesMatter
protest in Plainview on Oyster Bay Road.
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Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said former employee Gabriel Dewitt Wilson is a person of interest killing one person in a West Hempstead Stop and Shop
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Nassau police telling 50-100 protestors lining the sidewalk, “You have a right to be here, just keep moving”
#BlackLivesMatter
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.
@GovKathyHochul
said
@NassauExec
Blakeman “is attempting to exert authority” on a public health emergency, going against her executive order.
“People with more experience in county government know state laws prevail.”
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Joe Cairo introduces Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly
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@ARobWriter
@steffdaz
@LACoSheriff
@LASDHQ
@josie_huang
@KPCC
I hope not. This is by definition, “a chilling effect.”
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Long Beach is closing its 2.2 mile boardwalk effective at 8 p.m. Thursday night due to concerns of social distancing and transmission of
#COVID19
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Nassau County fire departments will air their sirens at 7 pm today to thank
#COVID19
first responders and healthcare workers.
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An NYPD officer who responded when the first plane hit the WTC, waits in solitude for hours in Point Lookout. While reading the names of the fallen, he waited to mark the times that each plane struck and the first tower fell at 10:28 a.m. on 9/11.
#911memorial
#neverforget
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@NYGovCuomo
"I do not believe we are destined for a shutdown... a shutdown is totally avoidable."
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Bethpage protesters have moved to Broadway and grown to a couple hundred people chanting “I can’t breathe!”
#LIProtests
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@clhubes
Can’t wait for that “extra hour” to fall back, which means they will instead wake up at 5 instead of 6.
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Protests shouting "hands up, Don't shop" outside Macy's to protest
#ferguson
#blackoutblackfriday
http://t.co/aqxxkB5cPD
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Good luck and farewell to one of my favorite people and beat partner
@steffdaz
. In 2 1/2 years, you left your mark on Long Island and made those in power respect and fear you. L.A. is lucky to have you. ☀️
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Cuomo: State to deploy testers on housing discrimination
Sparked by a Newsday investigation, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Thursday said the state will launch an initiative to deploy undercover homebuyers to test if real estate agents are "steering" customers
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Family members and building staff said George Santos is not at this Queens apartment as he faces investigation about his background before he is set to be sworn in Tuesday.
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Cuomo asked to respond to Trump Tweet: “He’s sitting home watching Tv, maybe should get up and go to work. Let’s keep emotional ego and politics out of it.”
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They don't have the Islanders at Nassau Coliseum. But they do have Swifty the swimming pig.
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.
@GovKathyHochul
is reading a story and greeting Pre-K students at Chestnut Street School in West Hempstead
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Suffolk County Police Officer Timothy Thrane sees his kids for the first time in a month as he’s released from Stony Brook University Hospital following a crash by an alleged drunken driver
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'We won the lottery': Calls to Santos redirected to neighboring congressman
Constituents trying to reach George Santos got a surprise this morning when calls to his embattled office were forwarded to the office of Rep. Nick LaLota -
@chayesmatthew
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There are probably close to 1,000 people gathered at the Long Beach boardwalk at Riverside Boulevard.
#LIPROTESTS
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Hempstead Democrat Laura Gillen is the first Democratic Supervisor In town history defeating Tony Santino
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Orginal Village People Cowboy Randy Jones performs “YMCA” after raising the Pride flag at Hempstead Town Hall.
#PrideMonth
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@AntonioPlanas1
I saw this very thoughtful sign ina coffee shop today... only to see a woman walk in and wait in line without a mask.
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Kate Murray's next scheduled public appearance ironically, is the groundbreaking Thursday at the Nassau Coliseum.
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A Conn. newspaper owner accused of plagiarizing a story on a Las Vegas judge has reporters quitting in protest:
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Stefanie came into Newsday like bottlerocket/bull in a china shop - pick your metaphor - but she immediately kicked ass. I was lucky enough to have her as my beat partner in Hempstead shaking things up and speaking truth to power. Best of luck and We'll miss you!
Some news: I’m joining
@AP
’s Los Angeles bureau as a crime reporter!
I’ve loved working at
@Newsday
. It’s been an honor to be part of a talented local newspaper.
Huge thanks to my new editor,
@fsbaker
, and my favorite AP’ers near+far,
@MikeBalsamo1
@JulyThePhotoGuy
@feltman41
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@NYGovCuomo
says New York needs to move forward with legislation to legalize marijuana. “There’s no longer a question ‘Should we legalize marijuana.’”
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Hempstead Protesters matched to Eisenhower Park and now heading back on Hempstead Turnpike chanting “Rain Can’t Stop Us.”
#LIProtests
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.
@NewsdayOpinion
endorses Curran for Nassau County executive
Newsday's editorial board endorses candidates for the Nov. 2 election.
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Hempstead Supervisor
@lauraAGillen
asks NHL to schedule
#Isles
at Coliseum, but NHL says they're playing at Brooklyn via
@Newsday
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Long Beach residents banging pots as protesters pass. “What’s his name?
#GeorgeFloyd
”
#liprotesters
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Long Beach (NY) schools said they plan to uphold the mask mandate in schools.
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@craigcalcaterra
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┳┻|⊂ﾉ The logical next step is to get rid of divisions
entirely, play a balanced schedule and seed teams 1-8 that way because there's really no point of divisions anymore.
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Nassau County police are patrolling about a mile off Lido Beach searching for sharks with helicopters overhead
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NEW: An Islanders season ticket holder filed a state human rights complaint that the new UBS Arena in Elmont does not provide enough disability accessible parking.
#Isles
officials said they plan to release full plans before the arena opens next week.
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Long Beach protesters and officials, including new acting police commissioner, kneeling for 9 minutes for
#GeorgeFloyd
#liprotests
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.
@NewYorkStateAG
Tish James sends
@NassauExec
Bruce Blakeman a cease and desist order on an executive order banning transgender sports at county facilities, saying it violates anti-discrimination laws
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Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said they have made no arrests for the duration of the protests. Last night a group marched peacefully from Valley Stream to Merrick.
#LIProtests
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Long Beach residents on their balconies are cheering protesters marching to the end of the boardwalk.
#liprotests
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#BlackLivesMatter
protesters are getting shouted down with “All Lives Matter” as police try to keep the groups separate
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Hempstead Town officials ring the bell to remember the moment the first plane struck the World Trade Center.
#911Memorial
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Oceanside and Rockville Centre firefighters present the color guard and play God Bless America
#911Memorial
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FBI took several into custody on the Belt Parkway underneath the Verrazano Bridge, with possible ties to
#Chelsea
Update from the NYPD: About an hour ago, the FBI took several individuals into custody on the…
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According to San Bernardino and Riverside court records, Farook's only run in with police was a Riverside traffic ticket.
#SanBernardino
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@kurteichenwald
@kyletblaine
"It's pretty sad they have to go back 10, 20, even 30 years to attack Mrs. Clinton..."
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Suffolk County just enacted a plastic bag fee, but now I think we need to start talking about this.
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Inbox: .
@GovKathyHochul
directs human rights to investigate anti-LGBT+ bias at the Smithtown library after it removed
#PrideMonth
displays
"We will not tolerate a 'Don't Say Gay' philosophy taking root in our state," Hochul said.
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The great journalism coming from Newsday’s home office these past decades can’t be overstated. But I’ll also fondly remember it was home to the Chevy Chase classic, “Fletch Lives.”
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Or just read a Newspaper.
If you want more information on the power of due diligence when reporting a major news story, Spotlight is now streaming.
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