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Friday, January 19, 2024
Vol. 10, No. 3
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Trump trial judge swatted Fake bomb threat made to G.N. home BY C A M E RY N O A K ES Judge Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over ex-President Donald Trump’s civil trial for fraud in Manhattan, had his Great Neck home swatted early Thursday morning with a bomb threat that was determined to be unfounded upon police investigation, according to published reports. A Nassau County Police Department spokesperson told Blank Slate Media that early Thursday morning police received the report of an email saying a bomb had been placed at a Kensington home in Great Neck. Nassau County Police responded to the report at 5:30 a.m. along with the Kensington Police Department. The county’s arson and bomb squad and multiple other units investigated the home. No threats were found at the home, according to the police’s spokesperson. The spokesperson said he would not provide the information of who resided at the home to protect the victim, but multiple reports have said that it is the residence of Engoron. The investigation is ongoing, according to the spokesperson, and police patrol will increase. “The Nassau County Police Department continues to investigate this morning’s threat and takes seriously any threat made to an individContinued on Page 38
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Five Schreiber High School students were named 2024 Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholars, the second most from a single school on the North Shore.
5 from Port named semifinalists Schreiber 2nd in North Shore for 2024 Regeneron Science Talent Search BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y Two dozen high school seniors across North Shore public school districts were named semifinalists in the 2024 Regeneron Science Talent Search–the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors. Leading the way was William A.
Shine Great Neck South High School with seven students and Paul D. Schreiber High School in Port Washington with five students. Long Island in total has 50 semifinalists, the most of any region in the country. From the crop of 300 semifinalists, 40 students will be selected as finalists, who are scheduled to be announced Jan. 24. Finalists will show
their work to the public, meet with prestigious leaders in the science community in Washington, D.C., and compete for a variety of awards headlined by the $250,000 top prize in March. The competition, formerly sponsored by Westinghouse and then Intel before its current sponsor, pharmaceutical company Regeneron, is run each year by the Society for Science
and the Public, with the goal of finding solutions to the world’s challenges from budding young scientists. From an initial 2,162 applicants, 300 students across 36 states and China were named scholars in 2024 and will each receive $2,000 along with their respective districts. Continued on Page 39
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