The point of wearing wacky socks is to remind people that "things that are different are still beautiful."

An attorney for the family of Shannan Gilbert, who made a panicked 911 call the night she disappeared, said investigators are holding recordings close because "there are problems with those tapes."

The asking price of the five-bedroom, four-bath, 4,000-square-foot house has been reduced to $2.888 million.

A home for sale in Peconic has an indoor pond and unique décor inspired by the owner's travels to the Far East. It is on the market for $2.15 million.

The Amityville Board of Trustees is considering the creation of a transit-oriented zone as part of a proposed luxury apartment project.

A home for sale in Peconic has an indoor pond and unique décor inspired by the owner's travels to the Far East. It is on the market for $2.15 million.

LIer's artwork helped set the scene.

Skeletal remains in a Southold basement were discovered Monday by police looking into a 52-year-old cold case of a missing woman, Suffolk homicide detectives said.

Restaurateur Harendra Singh testified that he hired the wife of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and paid her $100,000 annually -- at Mangano's request -- but expected no work from her.

Andrea Rothbort lays in bed at night haunted by the images of April 22, 2017, when her 77-year-old parents, Barbara and Melvyn Glickman, were fatally struck by a Ford Explorer driven by John Hartwig of East Massapequa.

A drug recovery and parenting story is detailed in a challenge to a law requiring anti-abortion centers give clients options to terminate pregnancy elsewhere.

A winter storm watch has been issued for Long Island from 4 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday, with wet, heavy snow possible, as the fourth nor'easter in three weeks is expected, forecasters said.

Suffolk County Police reported Monday that they were investigating the death -- described as "non-criminal" -- of an unidentified man whose body was found on the grounds of Huntington High School.

Mondello, who has led the Nassau County Republican Committee since 1983, was an early supporter of President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

Their remains arrived at Dover Air Force Base aboard a giant C-17 aircraft, and were carried from its cargo hold by a procession of seven airmen during a dignified transfer, a spokesman said.

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The Hempstead Town Board is to vote Tuesday to appoint a union electrician to the town's Industrial Development Agency board, according to the meeting's agenda.

Voters go to the polls Tuesday in a handful of contested elections for village positions.

Three people were injured, including a newborn, in an accident in Hauppauge involving a Jeep and a garbage truck, police said.

The Springs home and studio of prominent midcentury artists James Brooks and Charlotte Park -- contemporaries and close friends of Jackson Pollock -- will be the latest location preserved to honor the abstract expressionist movement's history in the hamlet.