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The Betty White Challenge, which has gone viral on social media, encourages people to donate to their local animal shelter or rescue in honor of what would have been White's 100th birthday on Monday.

Long Island riders are asking the LIRR to stop leaving them out in the cold, and to open station waiting rooms for extended hours during the frigid winter months.

An apartment-retail complex two blocks from the Long Island Rail Road stop is nearing completion and another is set to start construction later this year.

The weather during the day on Sunday is expected to be near 40 degrees, with calm winds, but Sunday night a strong storm is expected to move in, the National Weather Service said. 

A Freeport woman was driving on Ponquogue Avenue at Good Ground Road in Hampton Bays when she collided just before 2 a.m.with a Hampton Bays volunteer ambulance company responding to an aided case, Southampton police said.

The motorcyclist died in the crash on Friday night on Harned Road in Commack, according to Suffolk police.

Call comes after learning that personal information belonging to an unknown number of current and former Metro North employees was swiped during a cyberattack last month.

A four-time bank robber and his getaway driver were charged with attempted robbery after the teller at a Chase bank in Deer Park didn't meet the robber's demand for cash, Suffolk police said.

Temperatures will plunge to about 10 degrees Friday night and while Saturday should be sunny, thermometers will only rise to around 20 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. A coastal flood watch is on for Sunday into Monday.

The number of new daily cases in the state on Thursday was 49,027, she said, compared to a record 90,132 on Jan. 7. "That is a very positive trend. And I believe we will be able to keep that going," she said.

With a small selection of homes to choose from, prices stayed high. The median sale value was $645,000 in Nassau County and $525,000 in Suffolk.

U.S. Attorney Breon Peace, the top federal prosecutor for Brooklyn and Long Island, on Friday announced the appointments of several veteran prosecutors to his leadership team.

David Humberto-Amaya, 33, was struck as on Flanders Road near Old Quogue Road in Riverside, and the driver fled the crash scene, police said.

Police in Utah investigating an incident between Blue Point native Gabrielle Petito and Brian Laundrie had probable cause to arrest Petito but didn't, and categorized the incident as "disorderly conduct" when it was "domestic violence," the report said 

While COVID-19 positivity levels dropped for the seventh day in a row on Long Island, there were widespread reported delays in getting results for PCR tests and the statewide daily death toll reached its highest level in nearly a year.

Arctic air will sweep into the region Friday night into Saturday, followed by a strong storm system later in the weekend that could potentially bring heavy precipitation, strong winds and coastal flooding, the National Weather Service said.

They punched and kicked the officer at John F. Kennedy International Airport last year after they were prohibited from boarding a flight to Puerto Rico, prosecutors announced Thursday. 

Medical experts said the updates will continue as science scrambles to keep up with COVID-19, but worry that people will start ignoring important messages.

The winning proposals include transit-oriented development near the LIRR and a town square featuring an amphitheater and ice rink.

The district announced earlier this month that it would be setting up a steering committee to start working on the plan. The committee's core group held its first meeting Monday.