Residents and police in Southampton Town fear recent gang-style graffiti discovered near Wildwood Lake signals a move eastward by vicious street gangs.
A 7-year-old girl was in a hospital intensive care unit after a dog mauled her arm and left two others with puncture wounds in their Bellport home, authorities said Thursday.
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran may have been too optimistic when she projected an $8 million surplus in sales taxes this year in a revised spending plan she submitted to Nassau's financial control board last month, budget analysts said Thursday.
Three Nassau men, and another from New Jersey, have pleaded guilty to defrauding Capital One Bank of up to $190,000 by falsely claiming they had deposited money into accounts and withdrawing funds when the bank provisionally credited the accounts, officials said.
Not-for-profit executives need to seek new corporate donors and focus fundraising pitches on their organization's mission as fewer taxpayers take charitable deductions, an accountant said.
A fragile Shelter Island peninsula that protects more than $1 billion of real estate and a harbor that is home to a thriving shellfish industry is in need of a potentially multimillion-dollar stabilization plan, according to town officials.