Suffolk County police are investigating an overnight robbery of a 7-Eleven in Patchogue on Saturday.

"I won't have to sweat in the gym," said Emmy Casey, vice president of the student council, with a laugh.

Yes, you recognize it. That bright, beaming thing in the sky, the feeling of warmth on your skin, a sense of calm and renewal in the air. It's spring!

Suffolk County police said no threat was found at Long Island MacArthur Airport, after a report of a possible bomb threat led officials to sweep three flights.

The Hempstead school board has extended its contract with Plante Moran LLC, the company it hired last year to conduct a forensic audit of the district's finances, and increased payment to the firm by an additional $100,000.

Crime Stoppers in Nassau and Suffolk offer total $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest of anyone who threatens an officer's life.

The national walkout effort was organized by a Connecticut sophomore soon after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

The new Long Island Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Consortium has pledged to raise awareness.

The news comes on the heels of city officials saying Long Beach will run out of funding in less than a month.

Prosecutors said Sydney Marquez had plans to host a party to celebrate 4/20, regarded as the unofficial marijuana holiday.

Suffolk County officials graduated a class of law enforcement recruits Friday and assured them they have the community's support -- even as a death threat from the MS-13 gang hung over their Nassau County police counterparts.

Louise Pietrewicz was 38 and living in Cutchogue when she vanished in 1966.

Two Mastic men are facing drug charges after Suffolk police executed a search warrant at their home and found illegal drugs and a loaded gun, officials said.

The battle for former Assemb. Al Graf's 5th Assembly District seat pits Democrat Deborah Slinkosky, who twice tried to unseat him, against Republican Doug Smith, Graf's top aide during his entire seven-year tenure in Albany.

The mysterious case of the missing Lake Ronkonkoma Cemetery sign was solved Friday almost as soon as it began.

Two passersby were trying to free her when Highway Patrol Officers Richard Gandolfo and John McCrory arrived and pulled her out, police said.

Long Islanders can look forward to a weekend that's set to bring sunny skies and temperatures warming up to the mid- to upper-50s, a few degrees cooler on the East End, forecasters say.

Once again, nearly half of all state park lifeguards this summer will be stationed on Long Island, officials said, where every summer they prove their worth.

If it's been more than a few years since you've shopped for a new bed, mattress-buying has changed dramatically.

A Hampton Bays High School senior's research on radon and thyroid cancer has been published in an international science journal.