Chace Quinn, 19, was arraigned on charges of vehicular manslaughter and leaving the scene of an crash that resulted in the death of Joseph Lynn McAlla, 63, police said.
Huntington's Gold Star Battalion Beach is off-limits to swimmers because high levels of bacteria have been detected, the Suffolk Department of Health Services said Tuesday.
Suffolk Legislature Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory (D-Copaigue) and activist Liuba Grechen Shirley of Amityville will square off in their first Suffolk County forum Thursday night in their quest to challenge veteran Republican Rep. Peter King of Seaford for his Second District seat.
The LIRR was on or close to schedule between Jamaica station and Atlantic Terminal on Tuesday morning after delays due to signal trouble east of Atlantic, the railroad said.
One of the boaters used a cellphone to report their vessel was taking on water from an unknown problem. Some of the boaters were wearing life preservers and others were holding onto floating cushions and a cooler.
Coast Guard crews suspended their search of the Long Island Sound on Monday night for two people believed to have been aboard a sailboat before it came ashore empty earlier on Truman Beach near Greenport, officials said.
Joan P. Yale was a trailblazer in Nassau policing who in her career became the highest-ranking woman to serve in any Long Island law enforcement agency.