The Breeders' Cup world championships are returning to New York in 2027 at the rebuilt Belmont Park. Officials from the Breeders' Cup and the New York Racing Association announced Wednesday that ...

Nassau County police on Long Island said they found a 14-inch knife on a man they stopped and searched because he was wearing a face mask, the first violation of a contested local law that bans ...

During a news conference early Wednesday, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed the ban, the first of its kind in the U.S., which criminalizes the wearing of face masks to hide identities ...

A federal judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit challenging a controversial Nassau County law that bans wearing face masks in public. The lawsuit, filed last month by the advocacy group ...

Here in New York, a Long Island man is the first person to be charged with wearing a face mask in public ... A new law passed by Nassau County’s Republican-controlled Legislature makes it ...

In a landmark enforcement of Nassau County’s new face mask ban, police in the suburbs of New York City have made their first arrest under the local law, officials announced this week. On Sunday night, ...

The law criminalizes wearing face masks to hide identities in ... of protesters and the health of local communities. "Nassau County’s mask ban is a dangerous misuse of the law to score political ...

Wesslin Omar Ramirez Castillo of Hicksville has become the first in Nassau County to face charges under the mask ban recently approved by the Nassau County Legislature. Castillo, 18, was arrested ...

A 18-year-old was arrested on Long Island over the weekend and charged with possessing a knife and wearing a mask in ... first person to face potential punishment over Nassau County’s new ...

said Ramirez Castillo will also be facing a misdemeanor violation of the face mask law in the coming days. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican who signed the mask ban into law ...

Nassau County, on Long Island, passed a law this month that bans people from wearing face masks in public, with exceptions for medical and religious needs. Local police are tasked with enforcing ...