'Near-Normal' Commute Finally Expected, Over 24 Hours After LIRR Derailment
At long last, a "near-normal" commute was expected Wednesday, in the wake of a derailment that damaged tracks and switches.
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At long last, a "near-normal" commute was expected Wednesday, in the wake of a derailment that damaged tracks and switches.
It was an all-out charm offensive Tuesday by Army Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the NSA, and representatives of the FBI and the Department of Justice to beat back concerns that our government is spying on us, tapping our phone lines and email accounts.
A Long Island woman who lost her two children in a drowning accident has launched a call to improve pool safety just in time for swimming season.
A Long Island Rail Road train headed to Hempstead derailed early Monday evening just after leaving Penn Station.
A former Home Depot handyman from Long Island was convicted Monday of trying to extort $2 million from the company in a plot that involved pipe bombs.
Federal agents and police raided nearly a dozen 7-Eleven stores on Long Island Monday as part of an investigation into identity theft and human smuggling.
Graduation rate stayed flat at 64.7 percent, the city announced. The state average for the class of 2012 is 74 percent.
A pair of Long Island twins has won $100,000 in scholarship money for their work with soybeans.
New York and Chicago are only about 800 miles apart, but moving a 50-foot wide electromagnet between the two metropolises will require a journey four times that long.
Boaters can expect extra police patrols. Greenwich police will make stops on the water and at checkpoints from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. each day from June 28-30.
The DUI suspects ranged in age from23 to 52, the two men arrested for DWAI were Mathew Russo, 23, of Mount Sinai and John Emig, 26, of Islip Terrace.
A druggist who bought a gun after getting spooked by a string of bloody pharmacy robberies on Long Island fired a shot at a fleeing bandit during yet another medication heist.
June is the peak season for strawberries on Easter Long Island, but farmers said that this month has been more like November.
The kidney was successfully transplanted June 3 at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, just in time for the family to celebrate Father's Day.
A bicycle ban is drawing the ire of some Long Islanders. But many who live on the North Fork say they are sick of swarms of riders clogging their scenic East End roads.
