The coronavirus variant found in South Africa has been detected in a New York resident for the first time. 10 states have reported cases so far.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty The coronavirus variant first found in South Africa has been detected in a New York resident, Gov. Cuomo said Sunday. The variant, called B.1.351, has spread to 36 countries, and 10 states in the US. The variant from South Africa may be able to evade vaccines, studies suggest. Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. The coronavirus variant found in South Africa has been confirmed in a New York residen...
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Driver arrested in connection with hit-and-run death of Nicki Minaj's father

The man who allegedly struck and killed Nicki Minaj's father in a hit-and-run was arrested on Wednesday, according to Nassau County Police.
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Thano Fatsis' beloved NYC diner is on the brink of closure - simply because it's on the wrong side of the street

Thano Fatsis, the 41-year-old owner of Triple Crown Diner in Bellerose, Queens, has been unable to serve customers indoors for months - unlike eateries right across the street that are technically located in Long Island. Matthew Cronin for Insider Triple Crown Diner is a local fixture in Bellerose, Queens, at the outer limits of New York City. Across the street, in suburban Long Island, restaurants enjoy looser restrictions on indoor dining. Owner Thano Fatsis takes us inside his diner's s...
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$1M home searches hit record high in January: Redfin

Homes priced over $1 million made up 10.8 percent of all saved searches on Redfin.com in January, up from 8.5 percent the previous year.
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24% of Homes Sold This Year Were Bought With All Cash, the Smallest Share in 13 Years

All-cash home purchases reached a low this year largely due to historically low mortgage rates Seattle, WA –  Dec. 18, 2020 ( ) — (NASDAQ:  ) — Nationwide, 24.3% of homes sold so far this year were bought with cash, down from 25.3% in 2019 and the smallest share since 2007. This is according to a new   from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. All-cash home purchases peaked in 2013, when 34% of homes sold were bought with cash. The share has generally declined si...
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How To Help Your Child Cope With Car Accident Trauma

An estimated 1.35 million people lose their lives in road crashes every year. An additional 20 to 50 million individuals experience non-fatal injuries that result in long-term disabilities, according to ASIRT. On 3rd December, two teenagers were ejected from their car following a road accident. The teens, identified as Skylor Brown and Garret Haddon, are aged 18 and 17 years. Family members say the two were traveling to view Christmas lights when the crash occurred before 10 pm at Mickler ...
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These Blue States Are Screwed—Even Under Biden

As election day approached, the prospect of a Joe Biden presidency stirred hopes in some of the cities, counties, and states that have been fiscally wrecked by the pandemic that help, finally, would be on the way.New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has been dealing with the specter of what his office has described as “a $9 billion toll on City revenue,” said during an appearance with Inside City Hall on the eve of the election “if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris go to the White House, we get a m...
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Who is Marc Siegel, the doctor who will inspect President Trump on Fox News?

Dr. Marc Siegel Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM President Donald Trump will be inspected on live TV by Fox News contributor Marc Siegel Friday night on Tucker Carlson's show. Siegel, a 64-year-old physician and associate professor of medicine at New York University, has largely praised Trump's pandemic response. The doctor was also the one to interview Trump during his infamous "person, woman, man, camera, TV" comments on taking a cognitive screening test for dementia. Visit Business I...
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Nassau County Is A Hotbed Of Fraud And We Couldn’t Be Prouder

From meat mislabeling to a guy named Heckler cold-calling Ponzi scheme victims, it’s been a delightful month on Long Island.
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United States: Nassau County, N.Y. Courts Announce Phase 4 Reopening Plans, Return To In-Person Operations For Trials - Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

New York, N.Y. (August 18, 2020) - Lewis Brisbois' New York trial attorneys are looking forward to resuming trials and defending their clients' interests in the courtroom...
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19 sharks have been sighted at beaches in Long Island, county executive says

There have been at least 19 shark sightings on Long Island's Nassau County in New York this season, County Executive Laura Curran tweeted Saturday.
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Home Prices Up 8% as Supply Fell 22% to a New All-Time Low in July

New listings surpassed 2019 levels for the first time since the pandemic began, up 3%, but failed to keep up with the rate of sales, up 5% year over year Seattle, WA – Aug. 14, 2020 (PRNewswire) (NASDAQ: RDFN) — The national median home price rose 8.2% year over year to $323,800 in July, according to a new report from Redfin (www.redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. This is the third time in four months that prices have hit a new all-time high, as low mortgage rates con...
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New York City: The New Badlands – PART ONE

New York City: The New Badlands – PART ONE U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- “Back in the days of the old West, there were these stretches of territory that I think God and nature just plain forgot about. . . dark and parched and empty as the moons of Mars. Places where sensible men never ventured. . . where only dreams and phantoms walked. Kind of a way station between civilization and the Ninth Circle of Hell—The Badlands.” ~Quotation from the 1991 film, “Into the Badlands,” starring Bruce Dern as a...
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‘Black Panther,’ ‘The Dark Knight,’ ‘Jaws’ Among Tribeca Drive-In Series Films

With the moviegoing business still mostly dormant, Tribeca Enterprises has unveiled “Jaws,” “The Dark Knight” and “Black Panther” as highlights of more than 30 titles in its upcoming Tribeca Drive-In series. Events will be hosted at drive-in theaters in Nickerson Beach in Nassau County, N.Y., and Orchard Beach in the Bronx; the parking lots of […]
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Money Needed For Nassau Coliseum

from Candice Ferrette, Jim Baumbach and Robert Brodsky of Newsday, NYCB Live's Nassau Coliseum will shutter its doors indefinitely as the arena’s billionaire owner seeks investors to resume operations of the 13,000-seat venue and assume the remaining debt, a Nassau County spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday. The stunning development by Mikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim Sports and Entertainment, which operates the Coliseum through a lease from the county, comes three months after the arena, alo...
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Video shows police officers shoving a black protester to the ground

A video of peaceful protests in East Meadow, New York, shows Nassau County police officers shoving Terrel Tuosto to the ground and arresting him.
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Video shows police officers shoving a black protester

A video of peaceful protests in East Meadow, New York, shows Nassau County police officers shoving Terrel Tuosto to the ground and arresting him.
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Video appears to show Nassau County police officers shoving black protester to ground and arresting him

Peaceful protests in East Meadow, New York, turned contentious Friday night when police were seen on video shoving a black protester to the ground.
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Video appears to show Nassau County police officers shoving black protester to ground

Peaceful protests in East Meadow, New York, turned contentious Friday night when police were seen on video shoving a black protester to the ground.
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‘I’m Going To Blush’: Local Politician’s Coronavirus Briefing Takes NSFW Turn

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran's tennis ball warning sent those in attendance into fits of giggles.
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Official: You can kick their balls, but don't touch them

Laura Curren, county executive of Nassau County, N.Y., offers some wise tips for playing tennis safely as the pandemic continues. The two key takehomes are "kick but don't touch other people's balls" and "bring your own balls."
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Luxury snapshot: Housing markets will thrive after pandemic setbacks

Agents in five of the country's most glamorous enclaves have been impacted by the pandemic along with everyone else. But they also envision a sharp recovery in the months to come.
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The History of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

The Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, which is now branded as NYCB Live Arena, is a multipurpose indoor arena, that is better known as the home of the New York Islanders, located in Uniondale, New York. The arena opened in 1972 and was built on 63 acres of Mitchel Field, which was formerly known as Army Airfield and later an Air Force base. However, now the grounds are used for sporting events, large exhibitions, concerts, and shows. Nassau Coliseum (Spencer Hazen/THW) Now, the ...
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US Housing Market Reverses Course in March with Coronavirus Shutdowns

Record-setting declines include a more than 10% decrease in new listings from a year earlier and a 9% drop in total number of home sales in a single month Seattle, WA – April 20, 2020 (PRNewswire) (NASDAQ: RDFN) — Home sales slipped and the number of homes listed for sale plunged as the U.S. coronavirus crisis turned into a national emergency in March, according to a new report from Redfin (www.redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. However, the U.S. median home sale pric...
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Coronavirus US news - live: CDC confirms 25 dead as expert says America will have epidemic like Italy in two weeks

With 761 reported cases and a task force created by Donald Trump to prepare the nation, coronavirus fears have begun to grip the United States as schools cancel classes and officials have urged elderly people to avoid large crowds. Two New York bus drivers in Nassau County tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said. They drive about 80 students between themselves through Long Island, which has encouraged the area to close schools and place people in mandatory quarantine.Coronavirus conc...
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declares coronavirus state of emergency, confirms 76 cases

New York governor Andrew Cuomo on Saturday declared a state of emergency in over the coronavirus epidemic, and confirms 76 cases of coronavirus in the state NY Gov. Cuomo on nursing homes amid coronavirus threat: "That's what I'm worried about. That's what keeps me up at night." It is also in nearby Connecticut, with news just breaking today. UPDATE: We have learned of new confirmed cases of #Coronavirus in NYS bringing the total number of cases to 76. - 57 cases in Westchester County- 11 c...
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Morning Docket: 03.05.20

* A Nassau County judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Robert Durst brought by members of his wife Kathie's family for the alleged murder of Kathie and the disposal of her body. Please let there be another season of The Jinx. [New York Post] * President Trump is apparently happy that former attorney general Jeff Sessions didn't win the Alabama Senate primary outright and needs to face a runoff vote. [Washington Post] * A lawyer is accused of stealing millions of dollars from an estate he wa...
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Islanders Returning Home to Coliseum for 2020-21

The New York Islanders returning home to the Nassau Coliseum for all their games during the 2020-21 season is some of the best news Islanders fans have heard in quite some time. With the new arena in Belmont being built and the renovation of the Coliseum during the past few years, the Islanders moved their home games to Brooklyn. While Barclays Center is one of the most beautiful venues in which to watch an event, it was not built for hockey. There were many obstructed seats with obstructed v...
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Petitions of the week

This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address, among other things, whether Congress’ omission of a mens rea for the offense of sexual assault by bodily harm means mere negligence as to the lack of consent suffices; whether the “self-executing” just compensation clause abrogates a state’s 11th Amendment immunity, allowing a property owner to sue the state for a taking of property; and whether, in civil forfeiture lawsuits, when a district court has ordered the Uni...
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Coronavirus Updates: Quarantines Expand Worldwide, and U.S. Plans Response

People with potential exposure are in quarantine around the world — including 83 in Nassau County, N.Y. The number of new infections outside China has outpaced those inside the country for the first time.
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