Senior citizens want N.Y. to continue in-home personal care assistance
Advocates told CBS New York on Monday that some elderly are languishing due to a lack of state funding.
During her decades-long career, Jennifer McLogan has been recognized for her coverage of breaking news and live reporting on major stories that include the September 11 attacks, Superstorm Sandy, the Gilgo Beach Murders, the Long Island Rail Road massacre, the crash of TWA Flight 800, the Philadelphia Police firebombing of the radical group Move, the Hamptons' Pine Barrens fires, and major snowstorms crippling the Northeast. In sports, she covered Super Bowl XLVI, World Series with both the Yankees and the Mets, NBA finals with Michael Jordan, and the death of Arthur Ashe.
For her reporting, Jennifer has earned multiple Emmys (national and local) while based in New York, Boston, and Chicago as well as awards from American Women in Radio and Television, the Associated Press, the Long Island Coalition for Fair Broadcasting, and the Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Addiction.
Jennifer began her career reporting in Boston first in radio for WEEI-AM (news and substitute helicopter traffic reporter) and WHDH-AM before joining WBZ-TV. She was subsequently a Northeast correspondent for NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, and NBC Sportsworld. For CBS, in addition to CBS New York, she reported for WBBM-TV in Chicago.
Jennifer ran the Boston Marathon... while reporting on it. She is a rabid University of Michigan Wolverine. Not only did she attend the Honors College, but her parents met there, and her grandfather was on the faculty. While at Michigan, Jennifer was an NCAA athlete, earning a letter as a member of the first women's varsity basketball team in university history.
As a theatre major, she appeared in numerous plays and musicals, among the most memorable playing opposite noted Shakespearean actor Nichols Pennell in Pericles, Emily in Our Town and Bessie Burgess in The Plough and the Stars.
Also, while a student at Michigan, she was was elected the retro "greaser" Homecoming Queen, winning a 1948 Cadillac in mostly working order.
Jennifer earned an M.F.A. in Theatre Arts from Brandeis University.
She is a member of Inner Circle, the New York news reporters' parody group, and she is active in outreach for several volunteer groups.
She and her husband - a university dean - are the parents of three children: Their eldest is an attorney in Washington D.C., their middle child works in the restaurant industry in Charleston, South Carolina, and their youngest created "The Dig" for CBS News New York.
Jennifer and her six siblings are proud natives of Flint, Michigan.
Advocates told CBS New York on Monday that some elderly are languishing due to a lack of state funding.
Quintin Folkes, a 17-year-old with no prior health issues, began suffering a stroke inside Connetquot High School.
Dozens of students from Hofstra University on Long Island are spending their spring break in service.
For the first time, the Cricket World Cup will be contested on U.S. soil, and one of the three venues will be on Long Island.
Asa Ellerup said through her attorney she wants to give her estranged husband Rex Heuermann the benefit of the doubt in the Gilgo Beach murders case.
It's all part of the mission of the nonprofit Paws of War, which trains and places shelter dogs to serve and provide independence to military veterans.
There's celebration in Commack inside Wood Park Primary School, including hugs for a school monitor from a second grader, and tears from his mother and father.
The female victim in the heinous Babylon body parts case has been officially identified by police. The male victim is still with the medical examiner, forensic evidence pending, but a family has come forward identifying themselves as his next of kin.
Many on Long Island want to know why the four suspects charged in the body parts case aren't being held in jail.
Two men and two women have been charged after body parts were discovered last week on Long Island.
The state health commissioner says $83 million goes to Nassau University Medical Center if several provisions are met.
NUMC, a safety-net hospital serving the uninsured and underinsured, is weeks away from running out of money to pay its staff.
Human body parts belonging to at least two victims, one male and one female, were dumped in Babylon Village.
Leap Day baby Lottie Higgins, born in 1940, celebrated her 21st birthday Thursday on Long Island.
The suspects cased PSEG substations across Long Island, say investigators, and attempted to set them on fire.