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This Labor Day weekend support your fellow brothers and sisters and shop union-made for your barbecue needs.

Hofstra's chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which represents nearly 600 faculty members, said in a statement Monday that the union and university administration had made "significant progress in contract negotiations over the weekend" and reached agreement late Sunday

Long Island is gaining free pre-K seats across 84 of its districts, lowering costs for families and easing the burden of paying daycare expenses for working parents.

"Every season, the Navy runs out the clock. The plume gets further, the scope gets bigger, the cost to the taxpayers goes up," Schumer said.

The $14.2 million project will pool the resources of research institutes such as BNL and Stony Brook University, private entities such as IBM Research and utilities such as LIPA and Con Edison to model ways to quickly deploy new resources or adapt to large electric-load fluctuations.

A Queens man who spent three years performing as a clown at children's parties across the region contends his Nassau-based former employer failed to pay him and other entertainers for their travel, tips, parking and overtime, according to a federal lawsuit.