A plane bearing bodies of the 106th Rescue Wing members who perished in a March 15 helicopter crash in Iraq is scheduled to arrive in Westhampton Beach on Tuesday, area fire officials said.
A Farmingville man was charged with drunken driving after he struck and critically injured a bicyclist Saturday morning in Farmingville, Suffolk County police said.
The Brentwood Historical Society is working to preserve the octagonal school built by residents of Modern Times, a utopian settlement that existed before the Civil War.
The Friday morning commute was less than smooth for Long Island Rail Road commuters on its Brooklyn line after a Con Edison fire caused delays to and from Atlantic Terminal.
Suffolk's district attorney is ramping up efforts to fight "sextortion" and so-called "revenge porn," starting Friday with the guilty plea of a Holtsville man accused of coercing women into giving him explicit images of themselves.
Michael Davidson, an FDNY firefighter from Floral Park, died after battling a blaze in a Manhattan building being used to shoot a movie, New York City's fire commissioner said.
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone vetoed a resolution giving lawmakers an equal vote on a county committee that can waive rules requiring a competitive selection process on contracts, saying it poses an "insurmountable conflict" with his role as the county's administrative head.
A Nassau jury convicted Hempstead Officer Louis Arcila of official misconduct and child endangerment. He was acquitted of a sex abuse charge following a 2015 encounter with a female restaurant patron.
With no further coastal storms on the horizon, at least at the moment, Friday into the weekend was set to bring cooler-than-normal temperatures with slight chances for precipitation, forecasters said.