Johnathan Dyer is 35 years old and had never met his biological father, who in the late 1970s was a famous Long Island high school wrestler, state champion and Olympic hopeful.

A long-delayed reassessment is looming, but there are concerns about whether inequities will be adequately addressed.

Six people were arrested in the takedown of the drug trafficking operation in eastern Suffolk County, officials said.

FDNY firefighter Keith Young didn't ask questions when he traveled to Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks.

A Middle Island woman was charged with driving drunk with her two 7-year-old children in East Patchogue early Saturday, police said.

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 Georgia man was killed in a head-on crash on Joshuas Path in Hauppauge Saturday morning, police 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.

A man was fatally stabbed in Hempstead early Saturday morning, Nassau 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.

Southampton Town Police said Joseph Brogan, a 28-year-old Westhampton man who went missing Friday, has been located.

A fight at a bagel store left three teenagers injured Friday afternoon, Suffolk police said.

Michael Davidson recalled as a "good family man" who worked in the same firehouse as his father and whose firefighter brother works out of the Bronx.

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.

Suffolk police have issued a Silver Alert for a 75-year-old Patchogue man who has been missing since Thursday.

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.

A federal judge granted the school administrator's request to move a board hearing on his legal case from Monday to April 30,

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.

The other three members of the 106th Air Rescue Wing also have been recommended for posthumous promotion.