Peter Visconti Jr., 37, of Mastic, faces 20 felonies, including homicide and manslaughter, in the four-vehicle crash that left a woman dead and seven others injured.
Thanks to the intervention of a volunteer attorney at a Touro Law Center legal clinic, John Dollard will be entitled to have his highest rank inscribed on his tombstone after all.
Long Island state parks are slated to receive $16 million of upgrades this year, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Friday, and while most are not particularly showy, they are critical.
Thousands of volunteers across the state and on Long Island took to their parks Saturday, picking up trash, painting bike racks and trimming brush for the seventh annual I Love My Park Day.
When Democrat James Gaughran holds his first fundraiser Thursday in his bid to unseat veteran Republican State Sen. Carl Marcellino, Suffolk Democratic chairman Rich Schaffer will headline the $250-a-head event.
Rear-end crashes at intersections with red-light cameras in Suffolk County rose by more than 35 percent while accidents with injuries declined by 1.5 percent, according to a county report on 2016 data released Friday.
The Stony Brook women's lacrosse team's self-billed #LI3 helped the Seawolves take the express route to their sixth consecutive America East championship game with a 19-5 drubbing of New Hampshire in Friday's semifinal.
A Manhattan federal judge on Friday ordered the release from immigration custody of an undocumented 16-year-old Honduran boy after a year separated from his Brentwood mother, calling his detention for suspected gang affiliation in Suffolk County a "pretext."