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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s estranged wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, who had fought drug and alcohol problems, was found dead, an apparent suicide, Wednesday in her home, officials said.

Many companies that receive state funds would have to limit how much they pay their top executives under proposed regulations released Wednesday by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

The State Legislature’s top Republican said Wednesday the so-so success rate for school districts across New York that tried to override the new property-tax cap this week was revealing.

A wrong-way drunken driver was arrested Tuesday night after she sideswiped a tractor-trailer on an exit ramp on the Long Island Expressway in Jericho and then crashed head-on into a box truck, injuring two people, police said.

Joshua Lafazan’s first full day as a Syosset Board of Education trustee-elect begun with an early morning start — but not to head to classes at Syosset High School.

Voters in two of the largest school districts on Long Island, Middle Country and Sachem, barely approved new budgets by the supermajority vote needed to exceed a new tax cap imposed last year to help curb spending.

Voters frustrated by a grade-fixing scandal that erupted in the South Country Central School District last year turned out in force Tuesday to elect a slate of three candidates who pledged to be more transparent.