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In the 31-second video circulating on YouTube, a Suffolk County police officer is seen grabbing a 22-year-old Michael Schuchman by the throat, threatening to beat him up and take him to jail.
The probe will look into how Sandy contracts were awarded and how contractors performed.
Police said a 15-year-old and another suspect threw a 36-year-old woman to the ground near 100 N. Centre Avenue after she exited a Long Island Rail Road train in Rockville Centre around 8:15 p.m. on May 5.
Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said the suspects deceived the Take Five winner by paying him $774 of the $74,892 payoff when he redeemed the ticket at a Riverside gas station on March 18.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo received tentative support from legislative leaders Monday for his plan to finally sideline the Long Island Power Authority, which has been criticized for high rates and questionable response in disasters -- most infamously including Superstorm Sandy.
A debate is raging around a popular high school sport on Long Island; should girls be required to wear helmets during lacrosse games?
Police said the message was written in black magic marker on the cafeteria window at Baldwin Senior High School on Ethel T. Kloberg Drive between 10:30 p.m. Friday and 8:07 a.m. Saturday.
Officials in a Long Island town said this week that they have to scare off invasive Canada geese, and now must resort to euthanasia.
The $25.6 million project at the busy intersection of Routes 347 and 112 at Port Jefferson Station is designed to improve traffic flow and safety.
Town officials were on hand to accept $1.3 million in grant money from the National Grid, which will be used to help 45 businesses still struggling to open in time for summer.
A boating tragedy off Southampton, Long Island, left one person dead Sunday afternoon.
Officers responded to a home on Densfield Road after John Beaumont called police to report that he stabbed his brother Thomas during an argument.
The driver of the Toyota was pronounced dead at the scene. His identity is being withheld until his family is notified, police said.
An army of volunteers pitched in to help rebuild the home, that Clarke had lived in since the Eisenhower administration, after it was ravaged by the storm.
Once inside the man brandished a black handgun and ordered the manager to empty the contents of the store's safe into a black duffel bag before fleeing the scene.
