Suffolk County Executive Makes Pick For Top Cop
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has made his pick for police commissioner. He has selected acting commissioner and veteran cop Edward Webber.
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Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has made his pick for police commissioner. He has selected acting commissioner and veteran cop Edward Webber.
Strong winds and skydiving do not mix, WCBS 880's Sophia Hall reported.
His steps are slow, but there was a time no one thought Kenneth Baribault would ever walk again or speak. His words also come slowly, but he can now string a few together with the help of an iPad and his 10-year-old son.
Suffolk County Police said that Marine Bureau officers helped save three men minutes after their sailboat overturned and sank in Huntington. U.S. Park Police also helped rescue a man near the Statue of Liberty.
About 150 firefighters battled the fast-moving blaze, which raged just before 2 a.m. at the Foxcroft Road home where a woman, her fiance and one of her sons were sleeping.
She was berated and tricked into a life of submission. That's what a housekeeper from Indonesia claims in a shocking lawsuit against a prominent family from the Hamptons.
When residents in Merrick called police, they were told removing the raccoon would be the homeowners' problem.
After finding out there are at least 400,000 rape kits sitting on shelves waiting to be tested, a Long Island organization plans to offer grants to help tackle the problem.
The FDA says the New York state DEC closed the waters to harvesting on July 13 after several cases of people getting sick from eating raw or partially cooked shellfish from the area were reported.
Blydenburgh Park is being closed at night, which is when the bugs are most active, WCBS 880 Long Island Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs reported.
Residents in one Long Island neighborhood say they feel like they are living in a shooting gallery, constantly under siege by a hail of golf balls.
The agency is extending the period of one-way and round-trip tickets on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North from two weeks to two months.
He's vowing not to raise property taxes in the current political climate, but with sales taxes down, and revenues from red light cameras down, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano still faces a staggering budget deficit.
Ryan Foote's two passengers, 18-year-old James McClease and 17-year-old Rashawn Minter, were both ejected from the car and died at the scene.
This could be the worst year for whooping cough in this country in a half-century. So far this year, 1,288 cases have been reported in New York State -- three times the number from 2011.
