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NEW YORK, N.Y. — The New York Yankees’ season is over after the Tampa Bay Rays completed a three-game sweep in the American League Division Series, defeating New York 4-3 in Game 3 at Yankee Stadium Wednesday night.
Tampa Bay broke a 2-2 tie in the sixth inning when Victor Mesa Jr. hit a two-run home run, giving the Rays a lead they would not surrender. Ryan Vilade also homered for Tampa Bay.
The Yankees pulled within one in the bottom of the sixth, but a potential game-tying Anthony Volpe home run was overturned following a fan-interference review and ruled a double instead. New York never scored again.
The sweep sends Tampa Bay to the American League Championship Series and ends another postseason run for the Yankees. MLB notes it was only the second time in franchise history that New York has been swept in a best-of-five postseason series.
The Rays will host Game 1 of the ALCS on Monday against the winner of the Guardians-White Sox series.
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SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y. — Assemblyman Joe DeStefano recognized Melissa Mirabelli as one of his 2026 Women of Distinction, honoring her alongside four other local women for their contributions to the community.
Mirabelli publicly thanked DeStefano following the ceremony, calling the recognition “truly a special day” and saying she was honored to be included among women who “give back, make a difference, and continue to make our communities stronger.”
The 2026 honorees were Linda Davis, Samantha Graviano, Penny Hines, Melissa Mirabelli and Jacquelyn Schwicke.
DeStefano, who represents New York’s 3rd Assembly District, presented the honorees with formal New York State Assembly recognition as part of the event.
The ceremony offered DeStefano an opportunity to highlight local women whose service and involvement have made an impact across Central Brookhaven communities.
Mirabelli said she was grateful for the recognition and thanked DeStefano for taking the time to celebrate women making a difference locally.
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SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y. — A former Suffolk County Department of Social Services examiner has been arrested for allegedly stealing more than $78,000 in SNAP benefits, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney’s office.
Prosecutors say the defendant was responsible for reviewing existing SNAP cases to determine whether recipients remained eligible for benefits.
According to the DA’s office, an internal audit found that he allegedly opened seven SNAP cases for individuals who had neither applied for benefits nor requested public assistance.
Tierney’s office alleges those fraudulent cases were then used to direct tens of thousands of dollars in unauthorized SNAP benefits.
“This defendant was entrusted with protecting the integrity of our public assistance system,” Tierney said in a statement, adding that the defendant instead allegedly abused that trust by creating fraudulent cases and directing unauthorized benefits.
Tierney also credited Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine’s office for referring the matter to prosecutors after county officials uncovered the suspected misconduct.
The case remains an allegation, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
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SMITHTOWN, N.Y. — The Smithtown Town Board is moving toward a public hearing on a proposed local law that would authorize the Town to override New York’s property-tax cap for the 2027 fiscal year.
The Town posted notice on Oct. 6 that a hearing on Proposed Local Law #16-2026 will be held Thursday, Oct. 22 at 2 p.m. at Patrick R. Vecchio Town Hall. The proposed law is titled “A Local Law to Override the Tax Cap Established in General Municipal Law Section 3-c for Fiscal Year 2027.”
An override authorization does not necessarily mean the Town will ultimately raise taxes above the state cap. Municipalities sometimes adopt an override as a procedural safeguard while finalizing budgets, but the public hearing gives residents an opportunity to weigh in before the Town Board acts.
The issue is especially relevant as local governments prepare their 2027 spending plans and residents continue to focus on property-tax costs across Long Island.
The Town Board’s next scheduled meeting is also Oct. 22, when the hearing is set to take place.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the federal government to replace the terms “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” with “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in official executive-branch communications and policy documents.
The Sept. 29 order says the administration believes current frontier systems have moved beyond simply automating or imitating human intelligence and that “Super Intelligence” better reflects their expanding capabilities.
Under the order, federal departments and agencies are directed to use the new terminology in official correspondence, websites, reports and other non-statutory documents. Previously issued regulations, contracts and historical documents do not have to be rewritten.
The order also directs the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology to submit proposed legislative language within 60 days creating a federal definition of “Super Intelligence.”
The White House says the change is part of a broader effort to accelerate U.S. leadership in advanced computing technologies, including federal investments and the administration’s existing technology policy framework.
The move comes alongside another executive order launching America.gov, which the White House says will use Super Intelligence to help Americans access federal information and government services through a single digital entry point.
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For decades, college sports operated on a strange economic premise.
Universities, television networks, conferences, coaches and administrators could make enormous amounts of money from college athletics. The athletes generating the product were told their scholarship was compensation enough.
That model was never going to survive indefinitely.
The Senate has now passed the Protect College Sports Act of 2026 by a bipartisan 77–22 vote. The legislation would create national rules for NIL compensation, scholarships, athlete protections and other parts of college sports. It still must pass the House before becoming law.
There is much in the bill worth supporting.
But there is also an economic inconsistency worth examining.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the legislation would require certain schools and related entities to keep athlete compensation within a revenue-sharing cap and would effectively extend that cap beyond the current House v. NCAA settlement period.
Now consider the other side of the ledger.
The same CBO analysis says the legislation does not cap coaching salaries. In fact, top college football coaches already earn more than $10 million annually.
That raises a simple question:
Why is the athlete’s compensation the part of this market Congress believes requires a ceiling?
The usual answer is competitive balance. Without limits, wealthy programs could simply outbid everyone else.
Perhaps.
But economic incentives do not disappear because lawmakers regulate one category of spending.
Schools still compete for coaches. They compete for facilities. They compete for administrators, recruiting operations and television exposure.
If spending on athletes is restricted while spending elsewhere remains comparatively unconstrained, money doesn’t disappear.
It moves.
That is the unintended consequence policymakers should be examining.
There is also a broader question about bargaining power. If college athletes are increasingly treated as economic participants in a multibillion-dollar industry, then eventually the debate cannot simply be about how much institutions are willing to allow them to earn.
It must also be about who gets to negotiate the rules.
Protecting college sports is a legitimate objective.
But protecting a system and protecting the institutions that profit from that system are not necessarily the same thing.
And whenever government places restrictions on one participant in a marketplace, the important question is not merely what lawmakers intended.
It is who benefits from the restriction once it takes effect.