An Elwood Middle School student was honored recently by the district's leaders for organizing a fundraiser to buy gifts for a sick classmate.

A Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School junior grabbed the top spot in this year's Long Island Brain Bee.

There are 10 individual cameras, and each one attaches to a different bed.

A drunken driver was injured Friday morning after he lost control of his car and smashed into the corner of a house in Deer Park, police said.

With recent new construction, downtown enhancement projects and progress within the school district, Roosevelt is "a different community from what it used to be," says Town of Hempstead councilwoman Dorothy Goosby.

With recent new construction, downtown enhancement projects and progress within the school district, Roosevelt is "a different community from what it used to be," says Town of Hempstead councilwoman Dorothy Goosby.

PSEG Long Island said it "will likely take a few days" to restore power to all twho lost electricity in the second nor'easter to hit in a week.

A 2-month-old boy was mauled by a pit bull and his mother bitten Thursday in the front yard of their Elmont home, Nassau police said.

Top officials at Nassau University Medical Center will be barred from spending two weeks a year in the Cayman Islands at hospital expense, its chairman said.

The Nassau comptroller's office is seeking members of the public to volunteer to serve on an unpaid advisory board that provides fiscal oversight of the county's finances.

An appellate court has ruled that the Suffolk Conservative Committee board should not have filled vacancies ahead of its 2016 party convention, handing an out-of-power insurgent faction its second legal win in recent months.

Robert M. Beatty, a substance abuse counselor who grew up in Central Islip, loved long, intense conversations about politics, music and life over coffee.

More than one year after the Town of Babylon hoped to have finished installing energy-saving LED bulbs in all 13,250 of its streetlights, it has replaced only 10, town officials said.

The Manhattan federal court trial of sports-talk personality Craig Carton on charges that he scammed $4 million from investors through a ticket-resale Ponzi scheme has been scheduled for Oct. 29.

Steve Bellone and Laura Curran want online sellers to collect sales tax on purchases by New York residents.

Southampton Town police said they have located Roger Makowski, a man who went missing in January.

A downed high-voltage power line set fire to a backyard shed in Centerport during Wednesday night's nor'easter before spreading to a nearby unoccupied home, fire officials said.

Authorities are investigating a comment "suggesting violence against our schools should a weather-related closure not occur," the superintendent said.

The March 2 Nor'easter that blew into Long Island battered an artificial dune in Montauk, exposing a half-mile-long stretch of buried sandbags intended to combat erosion along the beach.

Suffolk County prosecutors have dropped a menacing charge against a Huntington attorney accused of pointing a gun at a client during a dispute.