Geraldine Hart is expected to begin as acting police commissioner in mid-April when her nomination will go to the county legislature.

Suffolk County police have charged a Patchogue man who sold an illegal AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and multiple high capacity magazines to an undercover officer last month, officials announced on Thursday.

One person was killed Thursday in an early morning fire that badly damaged a home in Lindenhurst, officials said.

Long Islanders who prefer rain to snow will get their way, for now at least.

Officials said they began a program last year to replace failing equipment, including installing 3,300 new threshold plates.

Renewable energy developer sPower is dropping a lawsuit it filed earlier this month against Riverhead and a Calverton entity seeking to buy most of the developable property at the Enterprise Park at Calverton for $40 million, the attorneys representing the developer confirmed this week.

Workers could start as early as this summer transforming an abandoned section of old Route 111 in Village of the Branch into a smooth path for shoppers and Long Island Greenbelt Trail hikers.

Village of Amityville officials will hold a Feb. 26 public hearing on a proposed amendment to its two-family house code.

The new space is decked out with toys and lounge chairs.

Who stole a portable generator from a longtime power equipment distributor in Riverhead? That's what Riverhead Town police want to know -- and they're asking the public's help in locating the offender.

In addition to having a sought-after school district, diverse community and generously sized properties, Dix Hills is a special place to live because "we have caring people who have always worked together to protect their greatest investment: their home," says Sheila Saks, former president of the House Beautiful Dix Hills Civic Association.

All colleges promise to equip their students with tools to succeed. For Richard Daly, Johnson & Wales University did just that -- with a chisel and chain saw.

State money to renovate a Lindenhurst Village park remains in limbo three years after it was promised, frustrating residents who live near the park.

Steve Bellone is selecting Geraldine Hart, the corruption-busting head of the FBI's Long Island office, as the next Suffolk County police commissioner.

A man was shot Wednesday night in Bay Shore and hospitalized in critical condition, Suffolk police said.

Ben Hooper, pulled from a well shaft in his family's Manorville backyard, says of the preacher: "He's in heaven now. The place where he wanted to be."

Jacquelyn McCoy, her daughter, Mary Alice Booker, son, Anthony McCoy, and his girlfriend, Tameka Foster, perished when their Mazda burst into flames after being struck by a stolen vehicle, police said.

The assistant football coach and school guard at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School lived on Long Island as a child.

The evangelist stirred "an urging in your own heart to respond," recalls a former youth leader who attended the 1990 crusade at Nassau Coliseum.