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A Week Before 9-Year-Old Vincenzo’s Adoption Was Final, His Pop Warner Teammates Handed Him...

On Friday, Oct. 16, inside Onondaga County Family Court in Syracuse, 9-year-old Vincenzo rang a bell, and the adoption that had been moving through the system for years became final. Judge Christina DeJoseph presided over the hearing. His new parents, Krista and Michael Wells, were beside him, and his fourth-grade classmates were watching on a video link.
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HEAP applications open Nov. 2nd, what you need to know about new guidelines

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) – As temperatures drop even lower, applications for the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) open Monday. Governor Hochul recently announced she’d bring it back this winter. The state also increased the income guidelines for households and the benefit amount for those who get heating fuels delivered, like oil, kerosene, and propane. Monroe […]
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Man built ghost guns in Harlem apartment, tested them in Central Park: court docs

NEW YORK, N.Y. (PIX11) — A Harlem resident has been sentenced to prison for manufacturing and possessing ghost guns and ghost gun parts in his apartment. According to court statements and documents, Roberto Guerrero, 32, had been creating 3D-printed pistols and assault weapons since at least September of 2023. He was also active in buying […]
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Port Washington Mom With Stage 4 Cancer Gets Dream Wedding After Grocery Store Encounter

Elena Volkova and Peter Napolitano were just trying to get through a grocery run at North Shore Farms in Port Washington on Oct. 18 when a stranger stopped them with an unusual offer: $500 in cash, or a cart full of free groceries. Napolitano, who said he had recently lost his job and fallen behind on rent, took the cash. What neither of them expected was that the encounter would end with a fully paid wedding in Manhattan exactly two weeks later.
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Lawless e-bike riders turn NYC’s Central Park into danger zone as fed-up locals push...

So much for a walk in the park. Central Park goers want lawless e-bikes to slow down but the reckless riders are defiantly flouting laws and turning the greenspace into a danger zone. Now some fed-up locals say it’s time for an outright ban. A group attempts to enforce a stop sign on a Central Park bike path by the West 72nd Street entrance. Stephen Yang E-bikes and e-scooters were involved in 33 crashes in the park through Oct. 18 and Central Park while precinct cops wrote 144 e-bike tickets th
Featured picture for NYC jogger stabbed in neck was planning to meet parents when attacked — as more chilling details emerge

NYC jogger stabbed in neck was planning to meet parents when attacked — as...

The 28-year-old jogger savagely stabbed on a Brooklyn promenade Friday night spoke to her dad on the phone just minutes earlier, law-enforcement sources revealed to The Post — along with other eerie new details in the baffling case . Bank teller Katie Suarez — who has been declared brain dead and is on life support at NYU Langone Hospital since the apparent random assault — initially met up with her mom shortly after the daughter left work around 6:30 p.m., sources said. The pair got together ne
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Woman, 28, Stabbed in Neck While Training for N.Y.C. Marathon After Reportedly Telling Parents...

Authorities say the woman, Katie Suarez, was taken to the hospital in critical condition
Featured picture for Rockland County Heating Assistance Program Opens Monday, Offering Eligible Residents Up to $990 Toward Heating Bills

Rockland County Heating Assistance Program Opens Monday, Offering Eligible Residents Up to $990 Toward...

The Rockland County Department of Social Services announces that the 2026–2027 Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) will open Monday, November 2, 2026. The federally funded program helps eligible individuals and families pay their home heating costs. “There is a lifeline available to individuals and families who struggle to pay...
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Record number of shoreline setback exceptions backed in Adirondacks

Driven by camp conversions and structural upgrades, annual town referrals to the APA grew from nearly 80 in 2015 to more than 160.
Featured picture for Bay Shore man charged with DWI after car goes off Sayville pier and plunges into bay

Bay Shore man charged with DWI after car goes off Sayville pier and plunges...

Police said Nicholas Volpicelli, 26, of Bay Shore, was driving a Toyota Camry when the vehicle went off the pier and into the bay.

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