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Bus Plows Into Home, Killing Young Boy

AP | Posted 01.28.2013 | New York
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — A transit bus hit a pedestrian and then slammed into a suburban New York City house, killing a 6-year-old boy who was inside t...

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Your Photos Of New York State: The People

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.04.2012 | Politics
Read More: Photos, Debate, Openreporting, New York State, #thisisNY, New York Politics, Elections 2012, Presidential Debates, New York, New York City, Offthebus, Second Presidential Debate, Video, Off the Bus, Firsthand, Hempstead, Politics News

To mark last night's presidential debate in Hempstead, New York, we asked HuffPost readers throughout New York to send us some pictures of the Empire ...

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Your Photos Of New York State: Cities And Towns

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 10.18.2012 | Politics
Read More: Second Presidential Debate, Debate, Video, #thisisNY, New York State, Buffalo, Hastings-on-Hudson, Prattville, Hurricane Irene, Firsthand, Presidential Debates, Hampton Bays, New York, Buffalo New York, Hempstead, Politics News

The second presidential debate is happening tonight in Hempstead, N.Y. To mark the occasion -- and because we got so many amazing photos for our Kentu...

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Your Photos Of New York State: The Outdoors

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 10.18.2012 | Politics
Read More: Photos, Second Presidential Debate, Video, Debate, New York State, #thisisNY, New York Politics, Hofstra University, Presidential Debates, Firsthand, Outdoors, New York City, New York, Hempstead, Politics News

The second presidential debate is happening tonight in Hempstead, N.Y. To mark the occasion -- and because we got so many amazing photos for our Kentu...

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New Day, New Debate: Show Us Your Photos Of New York State

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 10.15.2012 | Politics
Read More: Photos, Second Presidential Debate, Long Island, offthebus2012, Elections 2012, Hofstra University, Mitt Romney, Off the Bus, Presidential Debates, Firsthand, New York, Barack Obama, Hofstra Debate, Offthebus, Hempstead, Video, Politics News

Last week, in preparation for the vice-presidential debate in Danville, we asked HuffPost readers to send in their photos of Kentucky -- to show off t...

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Hofstra University Prepares for Political Sizzle in October

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 10.30.2012 | Politics
Read More: Dnc, Aaron Rodwin, Spencer MacDonald, Mitt Romney, Hofstra University, Stuart Rabinowitz, Libertarian, Democrats, Barack Obama, Hofstra Debate Reaction, Hofstra Debate, David Mack, Raj Bath, Joseph Stiglitz, Stephen Steglik, Imran Ansari, College Democrats of New York, College Democrats, Hempstead, Republicans, 2012 Elections, Student Vote, 2012 Elections Students, 2012 Student Vote, 2012 Election, Politics News
Barbara Probst Solomon

Will students engage in the upcoming presidential elections in the definitive way they did for Obama in '08? The general perception in the media is that they might not.

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Bank Of America Just Lost A $170 Million Customer

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 08.09.2012 | Business
Read More: Eastern Bank, Divestment, Bank Fees, Municipal Banking, Wells Fargo, Buffalo, Bank Transfer Day, Bank of America, Bofa, JPMorgan Chase, Video, Brockton, Occupy, Banking Fees, City Payroll, Massachusetts, Hempstead, Business News

Bank of America may have millions of customers, but the government of Brockton, Mass., is no longer one of them. Brockton is divesting its municipa...

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Hempstead Freedom Walkers Challenge Long Island Segregation

Alan Singer | Posted 08.17.2011 | New York
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Alan Singer

Eighth-grade students in Hempstead, New York organized a Freedom Walk to honor the 1961 Freedom Riders and to make a statement that racial integration and equality should still be valued by our society today.

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Disproportionate Share of Turnaround Money Headed to High Schools

Sarah Garland | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: High Schools, Justin Cohen, Portland Oregon, Turnaround, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, New York, Locke High School, Hempstead, The Hechinger Report, Education, Turnaround-Grants, Sarah Garland, Education Reform, Politics News
Sarah Garland

U.S. Department of Education is handing out $3.5 billion in grants to failing schools around the country. But when it comes to turning around high schools, educators admit that no one knows exactly what works.

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Defining Democracy

Rana F. Sweis | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Creativity, Jordan, Elections, Amman-Jordan, Politics, Democracy, Parliament, Education, Middle East, Hempstead, Honor Killing, Eduction-Reform, New York, Culture, World News
Rana F. Sweis

The fifth Parliamentary elections will be held in Jordan this November. It is difficult to see signs of true reform in this year's elections and I hope that Jordanians will look beyond the banners that dress the city.

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Female Corrections Officer Arrested In Long Island Shooting Spree

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP)-- Three people were shot, two of them fatally, during a shooting spree early Wednesday morning, and a corrections officer related...

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Paterson Launches Election Bid On Long Island

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — David Paterson launched his campaign for a full four-year term as governor Saturday with a combative campaign speech that mock...

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Paterson Launches Governor Bid In Long Island Hometown

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Weeks after becoming the state's first black governor, David Paterson made a triumphant return to his childhood alma mater, He...

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Shoebox Baby's Mom Arrested

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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HEMPSTEAD, Long Island (AP) -- Police on Long Island have arrested the mother of a newborn found abandoned in a shoebox in the lobby of a Long island ...

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An Anti-Kennedy Coalition: Radio Ranters and Intellectuals

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: John F. Kennedy, Ellen Alderman, Otis Pike, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joseph P. Kennedy, Hempstead, Greenwich Village, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Ted Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Harvard, Eugene McCarthy, Ronald Reagan. Adlai StevensonRobert Kennedy, Ed McCormack, James Buckley, Kenneth Keating Sam Stratton, Alfonse D'Amato, Caroline Kennedy Senate Seat, Caroline Kennedy Senate, David Paterson Caroline Kennedy, David Paterson, Roosevelts, Adamses, U.S. Senate, Hillary Clinton Senate Seat, Politics News
Martin Nolan

The Empire State is a triumvirate uniting the House of Clinton, the House of Cuomo and the House of Paterson. Would reviving the Kennedy dynasty disturb this delicate ecological balance?

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Presidential Debate Protesters Charged by Mounted Police; Iraq Veterans Injured, Arrested

Off The Bus | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Hofstra Arrests, Hoffstra Protest, Hofstra University, Hofstra Police, Debate Protests Hofstra, Hempstead Police, Final Debate, Hempstead, Hofstra Debate, Home News
Off The Bus

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- Pandemonium erupted outside Hofstra University tonight at around 8pm, an hour before the final presidential debate of the 2008 camp...

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Outside Debate, Hempstead Struggles (VIDEO)

ANP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Video, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Barack Obama, Economy, George Bush, Wall Street Crisis, Iraq, Presidential Debates, John McCain, Hempstead, Poverty, Politics News

Today a horde of journalists descends on Hempstead, NY, to cover the third and final presidential debate. But ANP left the pack to hear from people ou...

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