"We were freaking out a little. We didn't really believe what we were looking at," said said one of the fishermen who spotted the shark. "It's pretty rare."
Pericles Linardos said he has spent five years filing court motions and appeals since the Village of Muttontown fined him almost $23,000 for having trees removed from his front yard after superstorm Sandy.
Women in fancy hats and men in pastel colors stood out among the tens of thousands who converged on Belmont Park to watch a chestnut colt make its run for glory Saturday.
Republican Hempstead Tax Receiver Don Clavin declared victory last week after Democratic Nassau County Executive Laura Curran appeared to bow to pressure from Clavin and County Legis. Laura Schaefer (R-Westbury) to notify property owners by mail of assessment changes rather than post revisions online.
An investigation involving multiple overdoses in the area of Freeport and Baldwin over the past few weeks led to the arrest of a Freeport man on gun and drug charges, police said Friday.
A former Hempstead Village police officer whom a Nassau jury convicted of official misconduct and child endangerment after a 2015 off-duty encounter he had with a female restaurant patron got a probation sentence Thursday.
The plea of a Hempstead family to halt the deportation of a father of two from Ecuador got the attention of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who offered help and secured free legal aid Thursday for the immigrant detained when he delivered pizza to Fort Hamilton military base in Brooklyn.
Each of the Triple Crown races has its own official bourbon-based cocktail -- the mint julep for the Kentucky Derby and the black-eyed Susan for the Preakness Stakes.
New York Institute of Technology will use a $150,000 state grant for a bioengineering laboratory in Old Westbury as part of a larger expansion of biotechnology initiatives on Long Island, officials said.