Author: Newsday

I was pregnant and my first thought was: Am I going to have enough money in my bank account to pay my bills when I leave work to recover from the birth of my new child? In New York State, wage replacement benefits for short-term medical leave, which is what you go on when you…

NEW ORLEANS — Catching Freedom stormed from last to first to win the $1 million Louisiana Derby by nearly a length on Saturday, earning the Brad Cox-trained horse enough Kentucky Derby qualifying points to enter the opening race of the Triple Crown. Catching Freedom trailed the other 10 horses in the field entering the final…

James Jones’ name is back on the lips of college basketball fans in these parts once again. Coaching your team into the NCAA Tournament has a chance of doing that. Guiding Ivy League champion Yale through a heart-stopping first-round win over fourth-seeded Auburn makes it a certainty. Oakland’s take down of Kentucky may have headlined…

BLACKSBURG, Va. — Virginia Tech played without All-American Elizabeth Kitley, out for the NCAA Tournament with a torn ACL, and still won by 43 points in its first-round game. Baylor scored just 11 points in the fourth quarter and still won by 17 in its opener. Both teams expect much stiffer tests when they meet…

LOS ANGELES — A referee working the women’s NCAA Tournament game between Southern California and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi has been injured on Saturday. Michael Price left early in the second quarter after running down the floor alone and falling. He got up and clutched at the back of his upper left thigh. He walked around…

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — The Mets don’t know yet — or haven’t said yet — who will win the last spot or two on the bench and in the bullpen. But they did rule out a few options Saturday, including veteran major-leaguers Luke Voit and Jose Iglesias, with the regular season looming Thursday. Righthander…

STORRS, Conn. — Paige Bueckers scored 28 points and freshman Ashlynn Shade added 26 as No. 3 seed UConn celebrated coach Geno Auriemma’s 70th birthday with an 86-64 win over Jackson State in the first round of the women’s NCAA Tournament on Saturday. Aaliyah Edwards, wearing a mask after missing two games with a broken…

Ten years ago two Nassau nonprofits — one that served survivors of domestic violence while the other helped children who’d suffered abuse — decided they could better serve those populations by joining forces. “We felt very strongly that we needed to create a location where all of the services were under one roof so that we were going to be better able to…

HELSINKI — The U.S. Congress has passed a bill that involves a total of $228 million in military and defense aid to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this year under the Baltic Security Initiative, Estonia’s defense officials said Saturday. The U.S. government funding legislation includes military aid to the three Baltic countries, which all are NATO…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two crew members on a Holland America cruise ship died during an “incident” in the ship’s engineering space, the cruise line said. The unidentified crew members died Friday while the Florida-based Nieuw Amsterdam was at Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas, Holland America said in a statement. Authorities were notified and…