There were no serious injuries in an accident Wednesday morning that temporarily closed the eastbound Sunrise Highway service road in North Patchogue, police said.
Police said he walked into a Lowe's store in Commack, loaded a shopping cart with a bunch of merchandise, then used receipts he'd taken from a garbage can outside the store to return the items -- and get cash.
Moving the horse racing at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, to Belmont Park in Elmont is one of the top policy priorities of Long Island's largest business group.
Long Island's second nor'easter in less than a week was expected to deliver snowy, rainy conditions, along with gusty winds and minor-to-moderate coastal flooding, forecasters said.
A proposed moratorium on ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft was tabled Tuesday night, as more than a dozen drivers told Suffolk lawmakers that ending the service would hurt their incomes and riders who have come to depend on them.
A Coram man who stole purses from three separate women walking in commercial parking lots last month was arrested Tuesday morning, Suffolk County police said.
The head of the Pine Barrens Society called for the resignation of the director of the Pine Barrens Commission as the start of tree-clearing for a Mastic solar farm highlighted a bitter dispute among environmentalists.
A pencil drawing on a classroom desk in a Queens high school last week was the source of a social media post displaying a threatening message that disrupted Long Island school districts on Monday, the New York Police Department said Tuesday.
A candlelight vigil for Scott Beigel, the teacher and Long Island native fatally shot while trying to save his students during last month's school shooting in Florida, has been postponed a week because of the nor'easter expected Wednesday.
East Hampton Town received more than 4,000 pre-applications for its Section 8 housing voucher waiting list this year, a record number and a tenfold increase since 2012, when the list was last opened up.
Bellport homeowners will be allowed to rent out their properties five times between the Memorial Day and Labor Day holidays, putting an end to a three-year debate over how short-term rentals in the village would be enforced.
The Smithtown Town Council on Tuesday ordered that an environmental impact study must be conducted before it will vote on an application for a cellphone tower on West Main Street across from Stop & Shop.