One to two dozen small animals, from parrots to guinea pigs to turtles, died in a fire that engulfed a Centereach pet store Thursday, the SPCA said.

Long Beach officials were given a stark warning by state officials ahead of their budget talks next month that the city's fiscal stress could lead to an increase in taxes or a reduction in services.

After her assailant was convicted, Natasha Alexenko founded a nonprofit that aims to end the rape kit backlog nationwide.

Forget about April showers.

Board trustees in New Hyde Park want to rent out the mostly unused William Gill Jr. Theater to outside organizations as part of a plan to generate $5,000 to add to the proposed village budget.

A hit-and-run driver killed an out-of-state deliveryman Thursday morning, Southampton Town police said.

A post-and-beam Contemporary in Mattituck, listed for $925,000, is fully constructed of exposed cedar, inside and out, says the home's listing agent.

Projects include fixing sidewalks and parking lots that have deteriorated over the years, dealing with drainage issues in low-lying areas that are prone to flooding and rehabilitating the Bay Shore Marina bulkhead.

Barry David Berger designed the Suffolk County's 9/11 Victims Memorial in Hauppauge, and his clients include Avon, Bausch & Lomb, Clairol, Estee Lauder, Faberge, Johnson & Johnson, Revlon and others. Now his home in East Hampton is on the market for $1.385 million.

Barry David Berger designed the Suffolk County's 9/11 Victims Memorial in Hauppauge, and his clients include Avon, Bausch & Lomb, Clairol, Estee Lauder, Faberge, Johnson & Johnson, Revlon and others. Now his home in East Hampton is on the market for $1.385 million.

A Plandome Tudor built in the late '20s by English architect Gordon Manfred Trautschold for his family is on the market. It is listed for $2.799 million.

Two women were charged Wednesday in connection with the theft of a walker belonging to a 75-year-old Navy veteran that was outside a Lindenhurst bakery, Suffolk police said.

A city Department of Transportation worker was struck and killed on the Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx by a driver who had lost control of his vehicle Wednesday, police said.

Seven others were injured in the crash and two drivers were charged with drunken driving, according to officials.

Four Massapequa school board members Wednesday night distanced themselves from a post on a local Facebook group page that depicts a survivor of the Florida school shooting in a Hitler Youth uniform.

Violent crime, including homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, dropped 18.9 percent, and shootings were down 47 percent.

Louise Pietrewicz was 38 and living in Cutchogue when she vanished in 1966.

Former Old Field Village trustee Ted M. Rosenberg has unseated Justice Ron LaVita in a special election after the candidates finished in a tie last month.

Edwin Amaya-Sanchez, 30, said he and other gang members discussed, planned, then shot Jose Lainez-Murcia on July 24, 2014.

The defense attorney for former town supervisor John Venditto sought to show that his client wasn't key to the town-guaranteed loans that Singh secured.