Pedestrian Safety Experts Tour Long Island, Offer Tips For Saving Lives
Due to a rise of fatalities and injuries, national experts on pedestrian street safety conducted a guided walking audit of Long Island's deadliest thoroughfares Thursday.
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Due to a rise of fatalities and injuries, national experts on pedestrian street safety conducted a guided walking audit of Long Island's deadliest thoroughfares Thursday.
Jesse Friedman, the former Long Island man who pleaded guilty in a notorious 1980s sex abuse case, alleged Thursday that prosecutors defamed him to look like a "bad guy."
Police radio transmissions were released Thursday in the trial against Darrell Fuller, a parolee accused of fleeing from a crash then shooting Nassau County police officer Artie Lopez.
Officials said the burglar pretended to be a flower deliveryman when he knocked on the victim's door.
34-year-old Darrell Fuller has pleaded not guilty in the October 2012 killing of Nassau County Police Officer Arthur Lopez and a second man.
A Nassau County police officer accused of beating a Westbury man during a traffic stop pleaded not guilty to assault charges on Tuesday.
A Nassau County police officer was expected to be hit with criminal charges Tuesday, on allegations that he beat a Westbury man during a traffic stop in April, sources told CBS 2.
The modernized system is aimed at helping to improve traffic flow for emergency vehicles along Northern Boulevard, one of the biggest and most congested secondary roads in the county.
The beaches were closed Friday night and all day Saturday due to a wastewater plant malfunction that released thousands of gallons of sewage into Oyster Bay Harbor, the Nassau County Department of Health said.
Police in Nassau County are looking for the gunman who killed a 16-year-old boy in Hempstead on Friday night.
Nassau County Police have arrested a woman who was allegedly driving drunk with her toddler in tow.
The unit, known as SET, is coming back after driving while intoxicated arrests dropped sharply after it was eliminated.
Two men were charged Thursday with using a skimming device to capture credit numbers and create fraudulent cards – resulting in losses of $9,000 to multiple banks.
Marge Lee, with the group Dedicatedd, said it's very odd that in Suffolk County and in Queens, DWI arrests have increased, but in Nassau the numbers have fallen in the past three years.
The Nassau County Legislature on Monday passed a bill that would establish an online registry of people convicted of animal abuse.
A study by AAA found serious flaws in the red-light camera programs in New York City and several other municipalities in the state.
The family of a Hofstra University student shot and killed by a police officer during a standoff officially filed a lawsuit against Nassau County and its police department Friday.
Under the plan, inspections would cost an additional $61, adult annual membership at Eisenhower Park's Aquatic Center would rise by $50 and weekend golf at the park would go up from $36 to $40.
The bird was shot in the wing with a pellet gun and suffered fractures in two places, officials said. The heron has undergone surgery.
Gary Rogers with the Nassau SPCA said in the case of Miss Harper - the pit bull mix that had her leg and ears cut off - those charged were convicted of abusing another dog before that incident.
The report said that there are fewer predominately white school districts and that minority students are mainly concentrated in high poverty districts.
It was 2 a.m. when the vote came down, but union members still filled the room and cheered as a board voted to approve the end of a wage freeze.
It happened just before 3 a.m. Friday at a lot for an ambulance supply company on Sheridan Boulevard in Inwood, Long Island.
The state's approval of speed cameras will help pay some of the $129 million price tag.
Police on Long Island are investigating a threatening message left in a boy's bathroom at Wantagh High School.
