The nonprofit Long Island Music Hall of Fame will move to the&nbsp;Ward Melville Heritage Organization&rsquo;s Educational and Cultural Center in Stony Brook and be known as&nbsp;the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame, it was announced&nbsp;at a news conference from the facility on&nbsp;Tuesday.

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More than 200 celebrants came to party at a&nbsp;prom hosted by the LGBT Network in Hauppauge&nbsp;on Thursday night. Newsday&rsquo;s Shari Einhorn reports.

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The Island Harvest Summer Food Service&nbsp;program started this week to provide meals for children in low-income areas. The program&nbsp;operates the first day after school ends in June and runs until school begins.

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The Town of Oyster Bay demolished Doina Almazon&#39;s Hicksville home Thursday morning. She claims the town has no business destroying her house; the town says she owed more than half a million dollars in mortgage and tax payments. Newsday TV&#39;s Steve Langford reports.

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Joe Boyce, of Wantagh, who was desperately searching for a live kidney donor after his kidney function dropped dramatically in March, found one not far from&nbsp;home. His neighbor, Liz Haines, donated one of hers. Newsday TV&#39;s Cecilia Dowd reports.

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State officials provide tips to parents for how to keep children safe around water&nbsp;at Jones Beach&nbsp;ahead of the Fourth&nbsp;of July weekend.

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Willie Kellerman was a private first class in the U.S. Army and served in World War II. He was&nbsp;captured, held as a POW, escaped, made his way back and was eventually shot twice in combat. On Tuesday, Kellerman received a Purple Heart at a ceremony in Brooklyn.

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U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to say grants made for conserving soil and water resources, like the&nbsp;Suffolk Septic Improvement Program in Suffolk,&nbsp;cannot be counted as taxable income.

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Six Port Jefferson High School students who are also volunteer firefighters left their graduation ceremony on Friday &mdash;&nbsp;while still in caps and gowns &mdash;&nbsp;to help put out a house fire in the town. Newsday TV&#39;s Jamie Stuart reports.&nbsp;

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Lisa Dabrowski uncovered a long-lost Purple Heart medal at a yard sale in April in Southold that&nbsp;belonged to late Army veteran Robert Hollaman, who was wounded in battle in World War II. His daughter&nbsp;Lynn Bryson&nbsp;attended a ceremony in Riverhead on Sunday to receive the award. Newsday TV&#39;s Steve Langford reports.

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