Alex V. Mitchell

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A Long Island school pleaded Monday with the Trump administration to jump into its ongoing fight to keep its Native American team name – with one week until a pivotal legal deadline. Massapequa school officials sent a letter to Trump Education Secretary Linda McMahon asking the feds to intervene in a legal case to preserve its Chiefs name and logo in the face of a New York State ban on Native American imagery.

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He wouldn’t stay down for the count. Long Island’s Sean Wachter was given only three months to live after doctors discovered stage 4 melanoma that became a malignant brain tumor a decade ago. “I had a massive stroke that was caused by the golf ball-sized tumor. I had a rare complication called leptomeningeal disease, where the cancer spreads to your spinal fluid,” he told The Post, recalling the darkest days of his life.

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He put his best foot forward. Harborfields junior track star Rhys Walter made it his mission to run 1,000 miles to raise $2,000 for mental health awareness. “I was doing about four miles a day when I started on Jan. 1, 2024,” Walter told The Post, adding that he was inspired to do so after going to a retreat with classmates who shared their struggles.

1 week ago | nypost.com | Alex V. Mitchell

Thirty cats were found living in grimy, excrement-filled cages near a Bethpage State Park trail — where a homeless hoarder set up camp after falling out with his mom, officials said. The cat and kitty colony off the Southern State Parkway had little food and water and were left exposed to the elements at the hoarder camp marked by fallen trees, piles of empty soda bottles and other assorted trash, according to rescuers and photos of the scene.

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Alex V. Mitchell

A Long Island drug kingpin let two overdose victims die in a hotel while he cleaned up and went to Wendy’s with his henchmen — but now he’s been hit with a super-sized jail sentence. Russell Defreitas, known on the streets as “Merc,” had told his goons not to call 911 while a man and a woman OD’d inside his room at an unidentified hotel in March 2023, Suffolk County prosecutors said Tuesday — as the fentanyl and crack peddler was slapped with a 53-year prison sentence.