Laura Figueroa is an award-winning journalist currently serving as White House Correspondent for Newsday. She covered Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on the 2016 presidential campaign trail and most recently covered New York City Hall for Newsday. She previously worked at The Miami Herald where her reporting took her to Haiti, Honduras, Cuba, and throughout the U.S. Gulf Coast. She started her career covering migrant farmworker issues for The Bradenton Herald in Southwest Florida. Her work has also been published in People, Latina & Latina Style magazines.
New York — its “values,” its accents, its deep-pocketed donors — played a starring role in the race between Trump, a Manhattan real estate mogul, and Clinton, the state’s former U.S. senator who lives in Westchester County.
Michael Cohen Cohen grew up in Lawrence and rose from a personal injury attorney to an executive vice president of the Trump Organization.
The birthrate for babies born addicted to opioids, including heroin and prescription painkillers, has more than doubled in Suffolk County over the past six years, outpacing increases in Nassau and other suburban counties in the region, according to state health data.
The state agency charged with monitoring child abuse investigations has failed to file required annual reports for the past five years about child abuse-related deaths.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday outlined plans to combat “systemic racism” and improve economic opportunities for African-Americans, promising investments in job creation and “end-to-end reform” of the criminal justice system.
Tired of waiting for BP, Florida towns plan to fight oil alone
Nassau's police unions, major financial contributors to Republicans for years, have made an about-face and now are giving heavily to Democrats, who opposed GOP plans for police job cuts and a reduction in precincts. State campaign finance records show that last year, the 1,600-member Police Benevolent Association joined the detectives and superior officers unions in forming a political action committee that gave more than $500,000 to Nassau Democrats -- and nothing to Republicans.
Haiti's elderly earthquake victims are overlooked, say aid workers
Three Nassau Community College trustees who voted for former Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray as the school's $151,000 a year acting general counsel had donated a total of nearly $10,000 to her previous political campaigns, state campaign finance records show.
One year after Gulf oil spill, Florida tourism is up but questions remain
Florida Panhandle gets creative to lure tourists back after BP oil spill
01/02/2007 AT 09:00 AM EST Kristin Cavallari rang in 2007 with a kiss from boyfriend Nick Zano - and no cuss words - on her lips. "My goal is to stop swearing," the Laguna Beach star, 19, told PEOPLE on New Year's Eve at the Miami nightclub Prive.