In 1952, Kiernan led his undefeated East Hampton High School football team to a conference championship, his son said.

Kingsport, Tennessee, claimed in a tourism campaign that the cocktail was invented there 50 years before the Long Island version.

Look for a slight chance of showers, even a thunderstorm, Thursday evening into the nighttime hours, forecasters say.

Gordon Hall is credited with helping to formulate village code, including a minimum lot size to preserve the area's forested feel.

Lake Ronkonkoma is suffering its first blue-green algae bloom of the year, a Suffolk County health department spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

Huntington High School students are hosting an outdoor music festival called "Bands for a Build" to raise money for Habitat for Humanity and the Houston hurricane victims beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday at Huntington High School.

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An early morning raid on a home in North Amityville led to the arrest Thursday of a 27-year-old man and the seizure of a stolen loaded handgun, crack, drug packaging and scales and about $11,000 in cash, Suffolk County police said.

The appeals court ruled James Ryan's driving did not lead to the death of Police Officer Joseph Olivieri.

The story Long Islanders might subscribe to says the drink was created in 1972 at the Oak Beach Inn by bartender Robert Butt.

All the animals are expected to recover from "critical" ailments including infected flippers, and lacerations caused by boat strikes or other animals, an official said.

Gabrielle Anzalone said her candidacy was prompted by her district's decision to punish the students, but she said she is not a single-issue candidate.

An unbroken stretch of nice weather will continue to elude Long Island in the coming days, with forecasters anticipating clouds and possible showers between patches of warm temperatures and sunshine.

Around a dozen angry party- and charter-boat captains attended a meeting of the Marine Resources Advisory Council in Setauket to raise objections to the deal,

The Rev. Charles Omotu was removed "due to inappropriate behavior unrelated to endangering any minor," the diocese said in a statement.

A homeless heroin addict apologized for a 10-week robbery spree just before he was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation on Wednesday temporarily banned harvesting carnivorous gastropods and shellfish in Southampton's western Shinnecock Bay after detecting a marine biotoxin in shellfish.

A 16-year-old was shot in the foot in Southampton on Wednesday, prompting an investigation into whether the injury occurred near a Riverside school that was put on lockout after multiple reports of gunshots, police said.

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