With balloons, signs and a police-motorcycle escort, injured Suffolk County Police Officer Donald Dillon returned home a month after police said a drug-impaired driver crashed head-on into his police car.
A super PAC run by Suffolk police unions last year made more than $755,000 in independent expenditures on local political races including a record $329,600 to promote the election of former Police Commissioner Tim Sini for county district attorney.
The state will hold a pair of hearings in Nassau and Suffolk next week to explore the performance of PSEG Long Island during two of last month's four nor'easters.
The Saltaire post office will stay open at least through the summer while officials and residents figure out how to handle the volume of packages that overtakes space and overwhelms staff.
The Town of Babylon is putting more financial pressure on banks that own properties in pre-foreclosure by changing its mortgage-in-default registry fees from annual to biannual payments.
An unlicensed driver ran a stop sign Wednesday morning in Brentwood and hit a school bus, causing minor injuries to three children on the bus, Suffolk County police said.
An expanded Levitt house, listed for $499,000, features a front porch that the listing agent says "you would normally see in the country, not in Nassau County."
A teenager faces multiple charges after police said he broke a high school window and spray-painted racially and sexually themed graffiti on the campus.
Elementary and middle school students in at least 78 of Long Island's 124 public school districts will start taking the state English Language Arts exam in traditional paper-and-pencil style on Wednesday, as the multiday rollout of this spring's new test timeline continues.