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Metro Long Island Politics World News Search Type to Search Search Breaking News Trump pauses all US military aid to Ukraine after heated Oval Office meeting with Zelensky US News High school Spanish teacher, 33, accused of having sex with 17-year-old student: police By Patrick Reilly Published Feb. 27, 2025, 4:15 p.m. ET A high school Spanish teacher from California is accused of having a sexual relationship with a teenage student, according to police. Dulce Flores, a teacher at Riverbank High School outside Modesto, is charged with having sex with a 17-year-old while he was a student in 2023, according...

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Sunday blamed the state’s soft-on-crime bail-reform mess on former boss Andrew Cuomo and Albany pols, claiming she “held the budget up” this year to fix it. Hochul said she has been fighting to reverse the controversial 2019 bail measures — while adding that the Big Apple is bouncing back from a post-pandemic crime wave to become one of the country’s safest big cities, even as New Yorkers flee the state. “People say they’re going to leave our state because it’s not safe,” the governor told host John Catsimatidis on WABC-770 radio’s “Cat’s Roundtable.” “Tell me the...