The Hempstead Town Board is to vote Tuesday to appoint a union electrician to the town's Industrial Development Agency board, according to the meeting's agenda.

Stores in Sea Cliff will soon begin charging customers a fee for carry-out plastic bags after the village board unanimously voted to implement the new policy.

For 23 years Bill Rich operated his small business within the walls of a corporate giant, but in late January he was forced to relocate when the Sears Auto Center closed.

Trustees delayed a vote on whether to approve a new beer garden because the owner couldn't answer questions about how noise, parking and unruly patrons might affect nearby residents.

Orlando E. Tercero, 22, is charged in the Westbury woman's strangulation death, the district attorney said.

Deborah Degrassi, the head children's librarian at Bellmore Memorial Library, has worked to inspire local children to love the library as much as she does. Now she is retiring 38 years later, leaving the only job she's ever known.

Suffolk County police say they have identified the car involved in a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a pedestrian last month in Lindenhurst.

Harendra Singh said he learned that if you join the machine, the machine will make you strong.

The political ties between former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and former Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto were so strong that Venditto had a town official help Mangano sell a building "circumventing the TOB's normal permitting process," according to federal prosecutors.

Officer Louis Arcila has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges of official misconduct, third-degree sex abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.

Plans to grow dual language programs in the Hempstead school district elicited a mixed reaction from members of the Board of Education on Thursday night, highlighting the divide between trustees.

Harendra Singh testified against Edward Mangano as a "connection" who would help his businesses flourish.

The Nassau County executive had to submit the plan after the county's financial control board ordered $18 million in budget cuts.

Majority Republicans introduced legislation to block County Executive Laura Curran from charging fees to Little Leagues and other nonprofits.

Two Lindenhurst women were arraigned on felony charges Wednesday in connection with the drug overdose of a Nassau resident, Nassau County police said.

The bat-wielding man fatally shot by a police officer in Manhasset has been identified as a Maryland resident whose parents said he was mentally ill for decades, ever since he saw his best friend lying dead of gunshot wounds on the street.

Edward Mangano "sold himself" to restaurateur Harendra Singh in order to maintain his lavish lifestyle after becoming Nassau County executive and taking a $114,000 pay cut from his private-sector job, a federal prosecutor said.

Money laundering was among the many favors that Harendra Singh performed for former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, according to a recently unsealed motion filed by federal prosecutors.

Orlando E. Tercero, 22, was arrested in Nicaragua in connection with the killing of Haley Anderson, a Binghamton nursing student from Long Island, Nicaraguan police said.

Retirement incentives include $1,000 per year of town employment and health insurance for life, while separation incentives pay $1,000 per year of service.