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A West Hempstead man will be sentenced Thursday for abusing eight dogs.

Hector Hernandez is facing a year behind bars for animal cruelty.

Investigators say eight pit bulls were found in the home suffering from malnutrition and bite wounds.

Hernandez could also be fined up to $15,000 per dog at his sentencing Thursday in a Nassau courtroom.

A West Hempstead man will be sentenced Thursday for abusing eight dogs.    Hector Hernandez is facing a year behind bars for animal cruelty.    Investigators say eight pit bulls were found in the home

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I'm meteorologist Rich Hoffman, your hyper local weather forecast heading throughout the rest of our Friday. We do have the rain showers moving in west to east through riverhead. You can see the rain showers through this evening. After daytime, highs in the fifties going out this evening. After sunset, temperatures are going to be in the forties. We'll have the on and off rain showers into the morning hours of your Saturday. So here's our storm system, rain showers overspreading Long Island as of now west to east of Long Island, Nassau County seeing some of those showers. So evening plans, they will be impacted by a little bit of wet weather going through this evening. You see around eight o'clock, everyone's raining and the threat of rain kind of tapers off into tomorrow morning. So the rest of the day it's cloudy with the showers developing west to east. It may be raining in your neighborhood right now. Already, 42 tonight, scattered showers. Sun goes down at around 425. Here's nine o'clock, looking at the wet weather from the east end to the west side of Long Island. Temperatures are in the forties. We get a little bit of a lull with some drizzle and some fog on Saturday. And then the second wave of rain comes in towards overnight hours of Saturday. Then watch what happens on Sunday. We'll start to see the wet weather moving in and some steady rain for Sunday afternoon. Here's what we have today. Highs are in the fifties, showers developing over Long Island forties tonight with scattered showers and again, mild weather over the weekend.

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Hector Hernandez, of West Hempstead, to be sentenced in animal cruelty case