Geraldine Hart, a 21-year veteran of the FBI, was tapped by Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone to serve as police commissioner.

Smithtown Town Council members will seek a new appraisal for two privately owned lots for possible purchase and conversion into municipal parking lots.

Southampton Village officials are considering refining their zoning code to further restrict the size of new homes built in the village.

"All of them are so angry," said Donna Cain-Hlenski, a Red Cross disaster mental health volunteer who returned to Long Island from Parkland. "That's where our skills come in."

A North Bellmore family of six were removed from their house Sunday after it filled with carbon monoxide, a fire department chief said.

Positive train control is designed to prevent accidents by automatically slowing or stopping a train that's speeding or about to hit something.

Suffolk County police are seeking the public's help in locating a 15-year-old girl who went missing from her home in Coram on Feb. 18.

The suspect forced his way into the victim's apartment "claiming to be a Nassau County police officer" who was there to collect rent money and threatened to arrest the victim if he did not pay him, according to a news release.

Joseph A. McNeil has been called a civil rights pioneer for his role as a founding member of the Greensboro Four, who led the 1960 sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in North Carolina.

The Suffolk County Water Authority is the first supplier in New York to get state approval to use new technology that removes the probable carcinogen 1,4-dioxane from drinking water.

Two men armed with a handgun robbed a pair of gas stations in Riverhead and Calverton on Saturday night, police said.

Suffolk County police arrested a man who they said was selling e-liquid nicotine products to minors on Saturday.

Ralph R. Knowles' license had been suspended 46 times, expired in June 1986 and was revoked in June 1987.

Despite damage from superstorm Sandy to cemetery land exposing human remains on Hart Island, repairs won't begin for two years -- a situation that shocks those concerned about the future of the nation's largest public burial ground.

A taxi driver was seriously injured early Saturday when he crashed into a light pole in Hempstead.

"It was a hard life," he said, reflecting on the milestone and what he withstood to reach it. "That I survived is a miracle."

An East Moriches man was killed early Saturday when his vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree in Shoreham, Suffolk County police said.

Nassau County police have charged a Westbury man with 19 burglaries of restaurants and shops during the past year.

A longtime Catholic priest and a parishioner, recalling the days of the civil rights movement, say strides have been made but more work must be done.

It took just eight minutes to get from start to finish at former Nassau Deputy County Executive Rob Walker's arraignment in U.S. District Court in Central Islip on Thursday.