Nicholas Spangler

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Nicholas Spangler

A busier-than-normal Atlantic hurricane season is likely, with up to 19 predicted named storms, including 10 hurricanes and five major hurricanes, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration outlook issued Thursday. A typical hurricane season averages 14 named storms, including seven hurricanes, three of them major. The outlook does not predict how many storms will make landfall or what areas they might impact. The outlook for hurricane season, which lasts from June 1 to Nov.

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Nicholas Spangler

The United States Tennis Association, flush after record-setting attendance at the 2024 U.S. Open, will spend $800 million over the next two years — the largest single investment in Open history — to remake Arthur Ashe Stadium at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center and build a state-of-the-art player performance center overlooking the practice courts west of the stadium.

3 weeks ago | newsday.com | Nicholas Spangler

Hunger's warning signs are flashing in households across Long Island. A 2024 survey by Hauppauge-based food bank Long Island Cares found that 8% of respondents using food bank programs from Hampton Bays to Freeport come from households with incomes of $50,000 to $75,000 — good pay in much of the country but barely enough to get by here.

3 weeks ago | newsday.com | Nicholas Spangler

K-9 Simo, a bomb-sniffing dog and a veteran of 6½ years with the NYPD, got the end of watch walkout honor his namesake, NYPD Det. Brian P. Simonsen, did not live to receive. Dozens of officers and civilians, including Simonsen’s widow, Leanne, gathered Wednesday at an NYPD facility on Randall’s Island to honor Simo and three other working dogs who were retiring after years of service with the Critical Response Command, one of the department’s first lines of defense against a terrorist attack.

4 weeks ago | newsday.com | Nicholas Spangler |Maureen Mullarkey

He is the bishop of Rome, the supreme pontiff, spiritual leader to the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics: a man formerly known as Bob. That is what Fr. Luis Vera, O.S.A., pastor for the last 10 years of St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church in the Bronx’s University Heights, called Robert Prevost before a conclave of cardinals elected him pope this week and Bob became Leo XIV.