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A series of articles that included a story about a Huntington student who was deported Monday was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. Reporter Hannah Dreier won the prize for the series,Trapped in Gangland, which included the story, He Drew His School Mascot–and ICE Read More …
Updated: An MS-13 gang member who was deported after serving time for fatally stabbing a man in Huntington was rearrested Tuesday and charged with re-entering the country illegally. William Martinez Chavez, now 38, was a member of MS-13 when he fatally stabbed Armando Velasquez Garcia, Read More …
The fallout from a news article about a deported student and police officers assigned to schools continued Monday night at the Huntington school board meeting. Residents, including parents and alumni, came with questions about the process of setting guidelines for police officers in the schools Read More …
While we’re not experiencing Chicago-style weather, it’s still plenty cold enough to be threatening to people’s health and needs to be taken seriously. Dr. Steven Wishner, an internal medicine specialist at NYU-Langone/Huntington Medical Group in Huntington Station said Thursday that people need to minimize their Read More …
Hundreds of residents packed a sometimes-emotional Huntington school board meeting Monday night to discuss the role of police officers in school and other issues, in the wake of an article about how a local student ended up deported to Honduras. The ProPublica article, published with The Read More …
Huntington residents have set up a GoFundMe campaign to assist a former Huntington High School student who was deported back to Honduras. The campaign for the immigrant known simply as Alex has a goal of $10,000. The New York Times and ProPublica published a story Read More …