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Suffolk County needs to develop a plan to protect its beaches if oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico reaches Long Island, Legis. Tom Cilmi (R-Bay Shore) said Wednesday.
Cilmi Wednesday introduced legislation to require eight county agencies to determine how to handle incoming oil, should ocean currents bring it from the Gulf to local shores.
Despite a flurry of recent high-profile terror arrests, such as the failed Times Square and Christmas Day bombings, the number of federal terrorism prosecutions has continued to drop sharply in the years after Sept. 11, 2001, according to an analysis of government data.
Congressman Peter King appeared on The John Gambling radio show to discuss his intelligence trip to Afghanistan. To listen click here.
Another 9/11 responder's death prompted her family to plead Monday for federal funding to treat rescuers sickened by their work at Ground Zero.
Paula Rodriguez, 44, an FDNY emergency medical technician, died Sunday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Thousands of Long Islanders went to community parades and visited cemeteries to honor soldiers and veterans on a bright and sunny Memorial Day, while others headed to beaches with family and friends to picnic and swim.
At long last, almost 10 years after 9/11, a committee of the House of Representatives has voted to provide federal funding for health care for thousands of sickened rescue and recovery workers.
The Super Bowl at the Meadowlands might be 44 months off, but security experts said the clock is ticking to form a plan to protect the stadium and the crowd during one of the world's most watched annual events.
WASHINGTON - When Homeland Security boss Janet Napolitano declared New York hadn't spent $275 million in anti-terror cash since 2006, she told only half the story, lawmakers and security officials say.
And that could hurt New York.
NYPD officials are frustrated with the Department of Homeland Security’s delay in releasing funds that the Finest badly need for the prevention of a “dirty bomb” attack.