The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is blaming much of the latest $955 million budget increase on Amtrak.

Two Shirley men were rescued Saturday night from choppy Plum Gut Harbor waters while a third was helped off their sinking wooden boat that had struck rocks around the Plum Gut lighthouse, authorities said.

Newsday staffers received an additional raft of awards in the Society of the Silurians' Excellence in Journalism contest, the Manhattan-based organization's annual tribute to the best reporting and photography.

Sophisticated therapy that enlists the body to fight cancers of the blood by priming a component of the immune system to strike a specific target is in the vanguard of innovative approaches to malignancies.

Law enforcement agencies on Long Island and New York City are bolstering security and intensifying patrols following Friday night's military airstrikes in Syria, but they say there are no specific or credible threats to the region.

Long Islanders can expect a brief return to winter weather on Sunday, meteorologists said.

Witnesses described discussions in 2010 about securing loans for restaurateur Harendra Singh.

His captors tried but they could never take away the humanity that gave Matthew Schrier the courage to make a daring and against-all-odds successful prison break.

The Town of Babylon on Friday withdrew a controversial plan to create a mixed-use development permit that faced significant opposition from some residents, who said it would diminish quality of life in their neighborhoods.

Long Islanders took advantage of one of the first warm days of spring as temperatures topped out at 70 degrees in most towns.

On her 100th day in office, Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen said she had hoped for more support and bipartisanship from her colleagues on the town board.

A veteran education lawyer says a determination about the seriousness of the breach will drive any decision regarding the test.

Firefighters responded to a car in a driveway fully engulfed in flames early Saturday in Bay Shore, authorities said.

An inspection sweep netted six arrests Friday at businesses cited for allegedly selling e-liquid nicotine, cigarettes and alcohol to minors in Lindenhurst, West Babylon and Deer Park, police said.

Suffolk police arrested a homeless man Friday and charged him with stealing 21 pairs of jeans from a Sears store at the Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove earlier this month, authorities said.

A rare legal two-family home in Port Washington has come on the market for $939,000.

A rare legal two-family home in Port Washington has come on the market for $939,000.

A Freeport man who drove a Hyundai with a visible spare tire exposed himself to girls in three separate instances this year, Nassau police said Friday in announcing his arrest.

Former Mt. Sinai man is accused in domestic case. Charges add to list of alleged offenses since ex-Suffolk police chief James Burke beat him in 2012.