Charles Lane
Senior ReporterCharles is senior reporter focusing on special projects. He has won numerous awards including an IRE award, three SPJ Public Service Awards, and a National Murrow. He was also a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and Third Coast Director’s Choice Award.
In 2020 he reported the podcast Everytown which uncovered the plot to evict a group of immigrants from the Hamptons. He also started WSHU’s C19 podcast. Previous projects include investigations into FEMA and continuing coverage of financial regulation.
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Convicted serial killer Richard Cottingham admitted in court to killing five Long Island women in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Suffolk County will begin notifying nearly 26,000 county employees that their Social Security numbers may have been exposed in the cyberattack in September.
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A memo obtained by Newsday offers the most in-depth look yet at Suffolk County’s cyberattackin September that has stymied many local government functions.
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The Nassau County Police Department blamed its disproportionate arrests of Black and Hispanic people on the large number of malls along the Queens-Nassau border.
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Suffolk County’s plan to outfit police officers with body cameras was halted because of the cybersecurity intrusion, according to a lawyer in Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone’s office.
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In a letter to Nassau County, Democratic state lawmakers are urging the county to respond to a report that faulted the police department for not answering calls from Spanish-speaking residents.
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The man beaten by former Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke has filed a second lawsuit stemming from a second incident where he alleges police again used excessive force.
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With a 10-point lead, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has been elected as the first female governor of New York. But her opponent, Congressman Lee Zeldin of Long Island, has not yet conceded defeat.
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Voting concludes Tuesday in the New York midterm elections for governor, U.S. Senate and Congress. Local races could also determine control over the state Legislature. Voters have a statewide ballot question to invest over $4 billion in the environment, as well as several local ballot referendums on Long Island. Because of an influx of absentee ballots, results are expected in hours or days after Election Day.
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An 18-year-old Long Island man is the first to be arrested in connection to a drive-by shooting last month outside the home of New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin.