A 57-year-old man from Calverton spotted driving 100 mph late Thursday in upstate Watertown was arrested after fleeing troopers and locking himself in the car when they caught him, State Police said.
A Port Jefferson Station man was pulled from his burning SUV early Friday after it slammed into a parked tractor trailer in a 7-Eleven parking lot, leaving him seriously injured, police said.
After clashing with school administrators, a teenage girl returned home and called 911 to falsely report a threat of a shooting at a Cold Spring Harbor school, police said on Friday.
An appellate court has ruled that the Suffolk Conservative Committee board should not have filled vacancies ahead of its 2016 party convention, handing an out-of-power insurgent faction its second legal win in recent months.
Robert M. Beatty, a substance abuse counselor who grew up in Central Islip, loved long, intense conversations about politics, music and life over coffee.
More than one year after the Town of Babylon hoped to have finished installing energy-saving LED bulbs in all 13,250 of its streetlights, it has replaced only 10, town officials said.
The Manhattan federal court trial of sports-talk personality Craig Carton on charges that he scammed $4 million from investors through a ticket-resale Ponzi scheme has been scheduled for Oct. 29.
A downed high-voltage power line set fire to a backyard shed in Centerport during Wednesday night's nor'easter before spreading to a nearby unoccupied home, fire officials said.
The March 2 Nor'easter that blew into Long Island battered an artificial dune in Montauk, exposing a half-mile-long stretch of buried sandbags intended to combat erosion along the beach.
Villages across Long Island are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to digitize government records because officials have run out of physical space to store paper files.