Long Beach Residents Renew Calls To Reopen Sandy-Damaged Medical Center
It's taking longer than expected to get a Long Island hospital shuttered by Superstorm Sandy functioning again and many residents and officials are getting impatient.
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It's taking longer than expected to get a Long Island hospital shuttered by Superstorm Sandy functioning again and many residents and officials are getting impatient.
The Long Island Sound that is causing some serious erosion concerns on the North Shore of Long Island.
A well-known charity for heroes is building a home for a U.S. Marine Corps veteran on Long Island.
The bracelet was engraved with the name of fallen New York City firefighter Michael Otten, who died on Sept. 11. The firefighter's widow, Marion Otten, said her son lost the bracelet on the beach at Robert Moses State Park a decade ago.
Class size is reaching the crisis level in the Hempstead Union Free School District, where teachers said they have been packed like sardines with more than 50 students in a classroom.
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice on Monday announced a five-point plan to help combat texting while driving.
More than a dozen leaflets were found Sunday in West Babylon and Shirley, Suffolk County police said. Similar fliers were found in Hampton Bays in July and August.
One of two men charged this week, with bias crimes for allegedly targeting the elderly in a chimney repair scam, cited 'family' as his reason for the crime, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota.
The family who died in a crash on the Southern State Parkway last weekend was to be laid to rest on Saturday.
Nassau County Court Judge Jerald Carter told 34-year-old Darrell Fuller on Friday that the sentence would be a "prelude to the hell that may await you.''
A Long Island man was driving around for weeks with a winning lottery ticket worth $2.9 million in his truck and didn't even know it.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton will soon roll out a pilot program in five precincts and one housing project in which patrol officers will wear body cameras.
The bill, which is sponsored by Legis. Kara Hahn (D-Setauket), is intended "to protect lifeguards from the harmful effects of ultraviolet light while on duty."
Police continued to search Thursday for a suspect who followed a 74-year-old woman into her garage, and robbed her of an expensive diamond engagement ring, in Woodmere, Long Island.
Parent Wendy Lantigua has started a petition to get buses for all Division Avenue High School students living south of Hempstead Turnpike.
