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Firefighters camp focuses on turning 'juniors' into volunteers

Instead of sitting at home and playing video games, 45 teenagers, mostly from Long Island, spent a recent morning playing with fire.

Newsday · Aug 1, 2019

'Dora and the Lost City of Gold' aims to be a breakthrough movie

When 8-year-old Evelyn Morales immigrated to Hampton Bays, N.Y., from Argentina with her family, she couldn't speak a word of English. School, she says, typically included tears of frustration and various excuses to hide out in the nurse's office. That is, until she discovered the Nickelodeon cartoon series "Dora the…

Newsday · Aug 1, 2019

Celebrate royal cocktail Negroni's 100th birthday with these drink recipes

The Negroni, one of the world's royal cocktails, is celebrated even more this year because it's 100 years old. The essential ingredient: Campari, the elegant Italian bitter.

Newsday · Jul 31, 2019

'Hobbs & Shaw' review: Fun, fast-paced, entertaining 'Fast & Furious' spinoff

What do you get when you cross "Black Panther," "Mission: Impossible," the "Fast & Furious" franchise and Hasbro's Transformers? A new kind of four-quadrant movie: "Hobbs & Shaw."

Newsday · Jul 31, 2019

Why Giants QB Eli Manning changed to a baseball workout regimen this offseason

Eli Manning spent the offseason working on his fastball.

Newsday · Jul 30, 2019

DJ LeMahieu, Brett Gardner close to returning for Yankees

NEW YORK _ The Yankees team that squares off with the Red Sox for four games beginning Friday will be closer to full strength than the one that played them in Boston last weekend. Infielder DJ LeMahieu, who missed the final two games at Fenway Park with a groin issue,…

Newsday · Jul 30, 2019

'Four Weddings and a Funeral' review: Light-as-air remake with an appealing cast

WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Maya (Nathalie Emmanuel, "Game of Thrones") is a communications director for _ and also lover of _ a senator from New York who turns out to be a two-timing creep. Badly disillusioned, she heads to London, where some college friends, like Duffy (John Reynolds), Craig (Brandon Mychal…

Newsday · Jul 30, 2019

Yankees are discovering that asking price for pitchers is high

NEW YORK _ Roughly two days remain before Wednesday afternoon's trade deadline and nothing yet final to show for Brian Cashman's efforts.

Newsday · Jul 29, 2019

Marcus Stroman excited to be a Met as he brings his passion home

NEW YORK _ Marcus Stroman, a diminutive pitcher, goes by the motto that height doesn't measure heart. The latter always has been most important to him, and never more so than now. He has declared that, after a moment's stunned review, home is where his heart is.

Newsday · Jul 29, 2019

Parental Guidance: Girl Scouts can earn 42 new badges focusing on high tech or high adventure

A collection of 42 new Girl Scouts badges for girls in kindergarten through high school covers high tech as well as high adventure.

Newsday · Jul 29, 2019