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Blood Drives To Be Held In Effort To Save 4-Year-Old Boy With Leukemia Blood Drives To Be Held In Effort To Save 4-Year-Old Boy With Leukemia
Blood Drives To Be Held In Effort To Save 4-Year-Old Boy With Leukemia A number of blood drives are being held in the area this month in the hope of saving a Long Island 4-year-old with leukemia.  Nassau County resident Ayden Paredes, of Glen Cove, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia on Feb. 7 of 2021, according to Mark Paredes, Ayden's father.  Ayden has been receiving chemotherapy treatments and blood transfusions since then, but doctors are now saying he needs a blood stem cell/bone marrow transplant to save his life, Mark said. Mark said his son enjoys watching YouTube, playing video games, and also going to the beach and the park. …

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by Nicole Valinote
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Seymour Woman, 19, Killed At Graduation Party Seymour Woman, 19, Killed At Graduation Party
Seymour Woman, 19, Killed At Graduation Party A 19-year-old area woman was shot five times and killed during a drive-by shooting at a graduation party. Tyanna Johnson, of Seymour, in New Haven County, was killed around 11 p.m., Friday, June 12, while attending a party at Shoelace Park, on East 226 St., and Bronx Boulevard, in the Bronx, said the NYPD. According to the NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison, a group of four people was shot when two men in a silver BMW pulled up to the celebration and opened fired before fleeing. "This should have been a joyous occasion, but instead it turned into a nightmare," Harrison said on Twitt…

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by Kathy Reakes