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A former suburban New York police chief who admitted beating and threatening to kill a man who stole sex toys and other items from his department-issued SUV wants to avoid prison so he can care for his cancer-stricken mother.
People have worked hard to restore the New York and New Jersey coastline to what it was before Superstorm Sandy but some areas have not recovered, nor will they ever.
Next year's budget is being scrutinized for its $105 so-called public safety fee, which is tacked on to all traffic tickets, as well as its $17,000 pay raise for the recently indicted county executive.
Two brothers who both have a rare spinal disease will now be able to travel from place to place thanks to a special gift.
An 85-year-old man is back home recovering after police said he was sucker punched in a quiet public park on the Upper East Side this week.
Rohan Esberry, 39, is charged with two counts of fourth-degree grand larceny and three counts of petit larceny, Nassau County police said.
A Long Island day camp employee has been charged in a 112 indictment that accuses him of sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy and possessing a massive collection of child pornography.
For years, the trained cooks have been preparing breakfast and lunch for the staff inside the headquarters of FREE, which is a non-profit agency that helps thousands of developmentally disabled people in Nassau County.
It happened around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at a home on Little Whaleneck Road in East Meadow.
Supreme Court Justice Fernando Camacho ruled Wednesday that an indictment charging driver Carlos Pino was flawed because of improper grand jury testimony.
Nassau County police are investigating the act as a criminal mischief incident, and also a possible hate crime.
Thousands of coats and jackets seized in a counterfeit bust are being put to good use.
What's a village to do when its water mains are a century old? Dig them up and replace the infrastructure.
Yet, now the inspector general's office of FEMA, the federal agency overseeing storm recovery is asking the towns to repay some of the relief money.
Recently-indicted Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano is giving himself a pay raise, in the midst of a county budget crisis.
