Generations of production workers gathered Saturday night to witness a milestone in Newsday's nearly 80 years of serving Long Island.

The Village of Nissequogue Fire Department is buying a $47,000 powered stretcher and ambulance load system, in part because people are getting too heavy for emergency personnel to safely lift, said Chief Russell von Frank.

Progressive grassroots groups that emerged on Long Island after the election of President Donald Trump, seeking to avoid the party rancor of 2016, are agreeing to agree: They'll support any Democrat who wins in the June 26 congressional primaries.

On June 13, 1978, the Westhampton Beach-based unit lost seven members when one of its helicopters slammed into a rain-shrouded Adirondack peak.

Widespread delays plagued train riders heading to Belmont Park for the third leg of the Triple Crown on Saturday, leaving thousands of people jammed together for an hour or more in crowded train cars.

A Coram man who fired a rifle at a group of people in Middle Island on Friday and fled the state was found dead of a gunshot wound after a confrontation with New Jersey State Police, authorities said.

Sunny skies and temperatures in the 70s will blanket Long Island this week, including Sunday for the Pride on the Beach festival in Long Beach.

Long Island war veterans gathered Saturday in Center Moriches for a day of spiritual healing, kayaking and information-gathering on services crucial to them and their families.

Suffolk County police arrested a Lindenhurst man charged with assaulting five people, including two police officers, during a domestic dispute Friday.

Suffolk County police charged a Mastic Beach man with driving while intoxicated Friday night after a crash that injured a 12-year-old girl.

Three people were hurt in a two-vehicle crash Saturday morning in Brentwood, police said.

For nearly a year, Stony Brook University student Luigi Pesce says the main way he ate was by attending campus events where free food was being provided. He would bring Tupperware with him to take leftovers to last him until the next event.

Hundreds packed a church Friday morning to memorialize three members of an East Hampton family lost in a plane crash a week ago.

A third body was recovered Friday from the wreckage of last week's plane crash off Amagansett, East Hampton police said.

Don't imitate a fire-breathing dragon by eating cereal supercooled with liquid nitrogen, Suffolk health officials warned Thursday.

The high-profile suicides of chef Anthony Bourdain and fashion designer Kate Spade this week could work as a trigger for people already thinking about taking their own lives, Long Island experts said Friday -- but they have also increased attention to the resources available to help people struggling with suicidal thoughts.

A pedestrian was struck by a sport-utility vehicle and killed early Friday as he crossed Pinelawn Road just north of the Long Island Expressway in Melville, Suffolk County police said.

Volunteers will collect food, water and medical supplies on Sunday for survivors of a volcano eruption that rained hot ashes and rocks in a mountainous region of Guatemala.

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