Lorena Mongelli

1 week ago | newsday.com | Lorena Mongelli

On a wet Wednesday morning, four men showed up to work just as they had done the day prior and would again the next. They wasted no time tending to grapevines, feeding animals, and cutting and washing lettuce at three East End farms, all under the looming possibility that they could be targeted in the next immigration raid. While immigration officials have stepped up deportation efforts across the country and locally, the men, all of whom entered the country illegally, still had a job to do.

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Lorena Mongelli

Law enforcement officers might be able to seek confidential counseling from trained peers without fearing their jobs are at risk, if a bill that passed the State Legislature is signed into law. According to proponents of the "Lieutenant Joseph Banish mental health act," police officers often experience trauma and grief as emergency first responders and the bill would make it easier for them to seek help privately from trained peer specialists.

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Lorena Mongelli

Marie Georges has sisters living in Haiti who she had hoped to reunite with on Long Island one day. But the travel ban issued by the Trump administration — which takes effect Monday and names her home country and 11 others — means those hopes were dashed, for now. Georges, 42, a U.S. citizen who came to the country as an eight-year-old child, said her two younger sisters are the last of her immediate family still living in Haiti.

3 weeks ago | newsday.com | Peter Gill |Lorena Mongelli

A driver who prosecutors allege was high on marijuana struck 19-year-old Eryk McPherson in October while he biked home from his job stocking shelves in Central Islip. Paramedics rushed the Longwood High School honors graduate to the hospital, where he later died, the latest fatality underscoring a growing problem of Long Island motorists who cause injuries while under the influence of drugs.

3 weeks ago | newsday.com | Lorena Mongelli

The first fully electric aircraft landed at Kennedy Airport Tuesday after taking off from East Hampton with four passengers plus the pilot, marking a potential turning point for the future of aviation, Port Authority and aerospace company officials said. At the east end airport on Tuesday morning, the battery-powered ALIA CTOL aircraft turned on with a loud buzz, gliding down the runway before easing into the skies at about 10:24 a.m., and landing at Kennedy Airport 45 minutes later.