Stacks of paper slips have cluttered a U.S. courtroom in Central Islip over the past two weeks: a multicolored trail of evidence in the first major criminal trial of a Long Island fisherman charged in a probe of alleged illegal fishing.

Debris lingers at an illegal dumping site, leaving residents wondering why they have been left behind by the property owner and officials for nearly five years.

Geraldine Hart, a 21-year veteran of the FBI, was tapped by Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone to serve as police commissioner.

Smithtown Town Council members will seek a new appraisal for two privately owned lots for possible purchase and conversion into municipal parking lots.

Southampton Village officials are considering refining their zoning code to further restrict the size of new homes built in the village.

"All of them are so angry," said Donna Cain-Hlenski, a Red Cross disaster mental health volunteer who returned to Long Island from Parkland. "That's where our skills come in."

Positive train control is designed to prevent accidents by automatically slowing or stopping a train that's speeding or about to hit something.

Suffolk County police are seeking the public's help in locating a 15-year-old girl who went missing from her home in Coram on Feb. 18.

The Suffolk County Water Authority is the first supplier in New York to get state approval to use new technology that removes the probable carcinogen 1,4-dioxane from drinking water.

Two men armed with a handgun robbed a pair of gas stations in Riverhead and Calverton on Saturday night, police said.

Suffolk County police arrested a man who they said was selling e-liquid nicotine products to minors on Saturday.

Ralph R. Knowles' license had been suspended 46 times, expired in June 1986 and was revoked in June 1987.

Despite damage from superstorm Sandy to cemetery land exposing human remains on Hart Island, repairs won't begin for two years -- a situation that shocks those concerned about the future of the nation's largest public burial ground.

An East Moriches man was killed early Saturday when his vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree in Shoreham, Suffolk County police said.

A longtime Catholic priest and a parishioner, recalling the days of the civil rights movement, say strides have been made but more work must be done.

Suffolk's own Hamlet on the Hudson, GOP state Sen. Tom Croci, has left people hanging for the last six weeks on when he'll answer the question: To be or not to be?

A Middle Island man was arrested after crashing his car into a Bay Shore home on Thursday, police said.

They worked to find solutions to local environmental problems.

Officials reassure parents, students and staffers in emails and letters. Some say security measures are being added before schools reopen on Monday.

If you're looking for nice weather, look to Monday, as this weekend will feature rain on and off till you put your work clothes back on.