As New York State officials press the federal government for a waiver that would allow schools to skip standardized tests for the second year in a row, administrators here are busy preparing to give the tests, just in case the waiver doesn’t come through.
"He ran over them like rag dolls and left them there," the victim's husband, Wilson Murillo, said outside Suffolk County Supreme Court on Thursday, of Mark A. Corrado, who is accused of striking Yuris Murillo Cruz and her two children in a borrowed pickup truck on Jan. 13 and then fleeing the scene of the accident.
New rates for federal flood insurance that were to take effect today are on hold after Senator Charles Schumer of New York, the majority leader, objected. Mr. Schumer said that the rate changes, intended to more accurately reflect risk, would increase costs to residents of Long Island.
In a striking reversal of former President Trump's energy policies, the Biden administration announced on Monday a set of actions that would significantly expand offshore wind projects, including the creation of a new wind energy area in the New York Bight and the acceleration of the permit process for other projects along the Atlantic Coast.
