Nassau County faces a nearly $13 million budget hole this year because the installation of 1,000 video lottery terminals dedicated to Nassau OTB isn't complete.

Saturday's crowds totaled 193,000, according to officials, quickly filling all parking fields for the show by 11:30 a.m.

A Hempstead woman died Saturday afternoon following a fire in her apartment, authorities said.

The city is in the middle of six days celebrating how on May 24, 1668, Joseph Carpenter purchased land in what is now Glen Cove from the Matinecock Indian tribe.

Jurors entered the holiday weekend without rendering a verdict Friday as they weighed the federal corruption charges against former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano for a sixth day.

Elite performers at Friday's rehearsal for the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach soared, tumbled, hammer-headed, rolled, dove and just basically awed their record audience.

Rear Adm. James A. Helis will stay at the helm of the Kings Point school during the search for the next superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

Consider a bit of data and a few statistics in contrasting and comparing the military jet performers at this weekend's Bethpage Air Show.

Hundreds of Hempstead High School students were inaccurately counted as making satisfactory progress with their coursework in the 2016-17 year, according to state education officials who had a blunt message Thursday for the district's administrators: Straighten out your records or face a potential takeover of the high school by outside managers.

Jurors acquitted former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto on all corruption-related charges, delivering a partial verdict in the trial that also includes former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and his wife, Linda.

Mayor Timothy Tenke said after a meeting that the cost of appealing likely would be $25,000 to $50,000 of taxpayer money.

Dr. Michael Belfiore was found guilty on all counts and faces mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years and a maximum of life imprisonment.

Representatives of environmental groups and the supermarket industry urged Nassau County legislators Wednesday to schedule a public hearing on a bill to charge shoppers 5 cents for single-use bags.

Jurors considering the federal corruption charges against former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto asked Wednesday to review security camera footage of the Mangano family's front door.

The proposed spending plan is $75G less than the budget that failed on May 15.

Bayville businesses and elected officials said last year's fee of up to $60 per vehicle had hurt beachfront restaurants' seasonal revenue.

"We cannot come to an agreement on certain items," the jury foreman wrote U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack.

Nicholas Arevalo, who works at the New York Spine Institute in Westbury, performed the Heimlich maneuver on Amaya Gardner there after a piece of candy lodged in her throat, her grandmother said.

Jurors asked the judge for information relating to two county contracts that one-time elected officials Edward Mangano and John Venditto are alleged to have helped secure for restaurateur Harendra Singh.

Nassau Democratic lawmakers have asked County Executive Laura Curran to review or rebid all proposed contracts approved by former Chief Deputy County Executive Rob Walker, a Republican who is under federal indictment.