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Exclusive: Less than 4% of Long Island's $213.5 million in opioid lawsuit settlement money, or $8 million in total has been distributed to vendors — even as overdose deaths continue. A Newsday investigation with myself and ⁦Anastasia Valeeva⁩ newsday.com/long-island/op…

A deep Newsday analysis on the earnings of Long Island town and city employees, by Joe Werkmeister, Carl MacGowan and Arielle Martinez ⤵️

DEC shifts gears slightly, asks Northrop Grumman for more extensive soil sample plan at #Bethpage park that had been a Grumman dumping ground.

Ex-workers accuse town zoo of neglect toward animals "There are so many animals living in conditions that are just abysmal," said Cayleigh Kunnmann, one of the employees who spoke to Newsday. newsday.com/long-island/en…

A surgeon had to put the boy into a medically induced coma to repair multiple skull fractures. Four years later, Newsday checks in with the family. Read the full story here: buff.ly/4gmJnJT. (Photo credit: Jeffrey Basinger)

A rocky road to recovery on Suffolk block after historic August storm "It's like a nightmare we still can't recover from," said one resident of the Rocky Point block. newsday.com/long-island/hi…

Sad ending to a story John’s followed closely, including this investigation last summer: newsday.com/long-island/na…

Most HR under each president Biden: Judge 196 Trump: Trout 134 Obama: Pujols 272 W Bush: A-Rod 364 Clinton: Griffey 351 HW Bush: McGriff 137 Reagan: Schmidt 259 Carter: Schmidt 152 Ford: Schmidt 87 Nixon: Aaron 218 Johnson: Mays 181 Kennedy: Killebrew 139 Eisenhower: Mathews 313

Under Bruce Blakeman, Nassau has tripled its spending on private lawyers. While neighboring Suffolk County spends $3 million/year, Nassau spends $20 million — doling out contracts to white-shoe firms that work for Trump and donate to Blakeman newsday.com/long-island/po…

Records show CPS investigated at least seven complaints against Kerri Bedrick since 2018. Her late son said his mother was hearing voices and "bad things" were happening at home. No action was taken. A must read from Sandra Peddie and Anastasia Valeeva newsday.com/long-island/in…

ONLY IN NEWSDAY: Suffolk sent bus camera ticket to man who's never been to NY. ⁦Newsday⁩ newsday.com/long-island/in…

The most bonkers story you’ll read today. And that’s saying something

Proud to be part of this project, covering the human toll of driving on Long Island. 2,100+ killed, 16,000+ seriously injured over a decade. But the stats don't tell the whole story -- thank you to Amir Porterfield's family and the other families for sharing their stories.

⁦The state’s system for disciplining doctors who commit misconduct puts patients in peril, ⁦Newsday⁩ found after reviewing 1000s of pages of records and conducting 90+ interviews. Great work by ⁦David Olson⁩ & Arielle Martinez newsday.com/long-island/in…

Ten years ago today, on @newsday’s dearly departed weekly SpinCycle page, footnote treatment for an upcoming political event promoted by Long Island lobbyists.

The revelation comes in a title card shown in the final minutes of the three-part series. It was not included in screeners sent to reporters prior to the release Tuesday morning. newsday.com/long-island/cr…

It pays to be a municipal employee on Long Island, especially for those in law enforcement. Bahar Ostadan, Joe Werkmeister and Anastasia Valeeva spent months examining what caused the number of employees making $300G to DOUBLE in 2024. newsday.com/long-island/po…

I sat with McCarthy at a Westbury diner in 2014 as she endorsed the Democrat who’d succeed her in congress. Her hair short after chemotherapy, she seemed torn about whether her job was done: “When you love the job you have, you want to see someone come in and continue the work.”