Nassau County To Place Overdose Patients Into Treatment
The program will be paid for using $585,000 in criminal asset forfeiture money.
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The program will be paid for using $585,000 in criminal asset forfeiture money.
The 30-day extension came just before Tuesday's deadline expired and after the Housing and Urban Development Department announced it would not seek to recoup duplicate benefits already paid to homeowners, up to $20,000.
Legislative Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams taxes seem to increase every year and it's causing young people to leave Long Island because it's too expensive.
A freight train toppled off the tracks in New Cassel, Long Island Tuesday afternoon, creating a prolonged mess for commuters.
Police believe a counterfeiting operation is responsible for 90 fake car inspection stickers found in a Long Island village.
The MTA bus driver accused of taking a bus on his day off and driving it drunk in Nassau County has his own version of the incident.
Young soccer fans stared in disbelief at the damage to the Cow Harbor Soccer Fields in Northport. The complex was left covered in tire tracks and ground up turf.
The Professional Bowlers' Tour is the landing spot for the best bowlers in the world. That includes one Long Island native who competes in the pro-ams.
Talks resumed Monday in an attempt to head off a school bus drivers strike on Long Island.
A waterspout was spotted offshore from Long Beach, Long Island Saturday afternoon, as a result of the stormy weather.
Police said they would threaten their victims with guns, knives and even a machete.
Two Long Island men were busted in Rhode Island this week with heroin valued at $800,000, police said.
More than 1,000 people attended the Point Lookout ceremony, which is held on the same beach where crowds spontaneously gathered on Sept. 11, 2001 and looked across the water as part of the Manhattan skyline disappeared.
Pope Francis will be in New York City from Thursday, Sept. 24 to Saturday, Sept. 26.
Both men are being held overnight at the Second Precinct and are set to be arraigned on Friday, police said.
