Suffolk County Lawmakers Vote To Arm Off-Duty Correction Officers
County lawmakers voted unanimously to arm some 200 officers with Glock 9 mm pistols.
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County lawmakers voted unanimously to arm some 200 officers with Glock 9 mm pistols.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo will have the final say on whether to appoint a successor or schedule an election. But Rice said she'd like her chief assistant, Madeline Singas, to succeed her.
A garbage truck and mini van collided, sending the sanitation truck into an office building on Long Island.
New York's Department of Environmental Conservation is telling Asharoken village officials to either improve its beach-public-access plan or forget about receiving millions of dollars is dune repair funds.
Closely watched U.S. House races in New York include a spirited challenge to embattled Staten Island U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, a Hudson Valley rematch and two first-time candidates battling for an open seat stretching across the state's northern reaches.
From the classroom to the courtroom. A highly regarded Long Island teacher is suing the state over a bad grade.
Dozens of frustrated drivers found themselves stranded on the side of the road with flat tires during this past weekend's heavy rainfall.
Police said a couple was out to dinner with friends at the Long Island Pour House Bar and Grill on Patchogue Road when they were confronted by the woman's ex boyfriend in the parking lot.
Democratic legislators in Nassau County are calling for the troubled speed camera program aimed at catching speeders in school zones to be stopped until its signage problems can be corrected.
The victims -- identified as 22-year-old Jackeline Reyes, of Bellmore and 23-year-old Eduardo Zapata, of Westbury -- were pronounced dead at the scene.
Nassau County police said 16-year-old Jasmine Copeland, of Freeport, got into an argument with three girls aged 16, 17, and 9 on Saturday night.
Detectives said a 19-year-old woman was in her bedroom at her home on Newport Road in Uniondale Saturday at around 4:50 a.m. when a man entered and made a sexual advance toward her.
Ahead of Tuesday's election, a new Sienna Poll shows a turn in the election.
Police on Long Island say a 19-year-old woman was killed in a single car crash that injured two others.
According to police, a 34-year-old woman answered the door to her home on Beach Street in Farmingdale expecting trick-or-treaters, but instead, she was ambushed by a group of men who forced their way into the house.
