William Hille, Firefighter Burned In Suffolk County Brush Fire, Returns Home
The Long Island firefighter who took on a wall of flames battling a massive brush fire that burned more than 1,000 acres of the Pine Barrens was back at home on Wednesday.
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The Long Island firefighter who took on a wall of flames battling a massive brush fire that burned more than 1,000 acres of the Pine Barrens was back at home on Wednesday.
The National Rifle Association is targeting New York lawmakers with major campaign cash. The gun rights group is handing out more donations here than in any other state.
The Port Authority is on the verge of announcing a 90-day plan to provide cleaner restrooms and more customer-service representatives at LaGuardia, JFK and Newark.
A teenager accused of killing his own mother in their Manhattan high-rise faced a judge Wednesday. Henry Wachtel seemed agitated as he heard the charge against him: Second-degree murder.
Over the past few months thieves have ravaged the tiny Plain Lawn Cemetery in Hicksville. They've stolen almost every bronze vase on the property and at least seven brass plaques , each of which is valued at $1,700.
A new trend in emergency rooms has been established to give the elderly the highest level of care possible.
Philip Datz, who works for Stringer News Service, claims in the lawsuit that the Suffolk County police department engaged in a pattern of harassing journalists.
A number of fatal shootings in Coney Island led to a 10-month-long narcotics investigation, and it's now resulted in the roundup of nine accused drug traffickers from two loosely connected gangs.
A published report says the state Attorney General's Office is reviewing the New York Police Department's "stop and frisk'' tactic that has drawn criticism from civil liberties advocates.
The Quinnipiac poll found that New Jersey voters approve of Gov. Chris Christie 59-36 percent. Meanwhile, they disagreed with him on the criticism of NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly regarding Muslim surveillance in the state.
Firefighters are battling a fire at an apartment complex in East Garden City, Long Island.
Jean Coughlin, 45, was picked up by police around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday after she tried to hold up a Chase Bank on Grand Boulevard in Deer Park, according to authorities.
Police arrested 55-year-old Darral Baskerville on Tuesday.
The incident happened after police responded to a 911 call of an unconscious female bleeding inside 325 Roebling Street around 8 p.m. last night.
Many Staten Island residents are worried they have been breathing in toxic smoke from the blaze and now councilmen James Oddo and Vincent Ignizio have asked city agencies to release data from the air monitoring stations downwind of the landfill.
