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The National Weather Service has issued a number of weather warnings for Staten Island.

A witness told the Advance that traffic was beginning to back up on the Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway as early as 3:30 p.m.

The Bayonne Bridge will close at 10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18, and will reopen at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 20.

President Donald Trump huddled with his top national security aides in the seclusion of Camp David on Friday, trying to formulate a winning Afghanistan strategy after 16 frustrating years of war.

"Two minutes later and I would have been right there," said West Brighton resident Frederick Alvarez.

Delays can be expected in early afternoon.

There have been increasing reports of dolphin sightings in harbor.

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A justice on Friday ordered the Rosebank man accused of attacking his former supervisor at Staten Island University Hospital with a metal bat five months ago to submit a DNA sample to prosecutors.

Jesus Quijada-Ayala, who stabbed one romantic rival with a broken bottle and clubbed another one, was sentenced to seven years in prison.