Police said the 26-year-old North Bellmore resident was arrested Sunday afternoon during a protest in front of Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, an orthodox synagogue near the New York City borough ...

Nassau County, on Long Island, passed a law this month that bans people from wearing face masks in public, with exceptions for medical and religious needs. Local police are tasked with enforcing ...

Critics said the mask ban granted police too much authority ... law deprives disabled people “of equal access to public life in Nassau County,” and argues that the law’s exceptions for ...

A 18-year-old was arrested on Long Island over the weekend and charged with possessing a knife and wearing a mask ... public, becoming the first person to face potential punishment over Nassau ...

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A disability rights organization is challenging Nassau County’s ban on wearing masks in public except for health and religious reasons, arguing it is unconstitutional ...

The bill from Jon Bramnick would make it a petty disorderly persons offense for people to congregate in public while wearing ...

A disability rights organization has sued to block the Nassau County, New York, mask ban that prohibits face coverings in public except for health and religious reasons, with the lawsuit arguing ...

Nassau County officials Wednesday seized on the arrest of a man they say was wearing a mask in public, using it as a chance justify their new ban on face coverings — even though he wasn’t ...

Authorities in Nassau County arrested a man in connection with its new face mask ban over the weekend, a case believed to ...

The suit, which named Nassau County and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman as defendants, sought a preliminary injunction ...

Nassau police arrested a protester at a Cedarhurst pro-Palestinian rally for violating the county's Mask Transparency Act.

Nassau County's new mask ban has prompted lawsuits that say the policy is discriminatory; now, officials say the case should ...