Heavy rain and gusty winds that develop overnight and greet Long Islanders on their Monday morning commute may cause potential road and coastal flooding through the afternoon, meteorologists said.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is blaming much of the latest $955 million budget increase on Amtrak.

Two Shirley men were rescued Saturday night from choppy Plum Gut Harbor waters while a third was helped off their sinking wooden boat that had struck rocks around the Plum Gut lighthouse, authorities said.

Newsday staffers received an additional raft of awards in the Society of the Silurians' Excellence in Journalism contest, the Manhattan-based organization's annual tribute to the best reporting and photography.

Sophisticated therapy that enlists the body to fight cancers of the blood by priming a component of the immune system to strike a specific target is in the vanguard of innovative approaches to malignancies.

Law enforcement agencies on Long Island and New York City are bolstering security and intensifying patrols following Friday night's military airstrikes in Syria, but they say there are no specific or credible threats to the region.

Long Islanders can expect a brief return to winter weather on Sunday, meteorologists said.

His captors tried but they could never take away the humanity that gave Matthew Schrier the courage to make a daring and against-all-odds successful prison break.

The Town of Babylon on Friday withdrew a controversial plan to create a mixed-use development permit that faced significant opposition from some residents, who said it would diminish quality of life in their neighborhoods.

Long Islanders took advantage of one of the first warm days of spring as temperatures topped out at 70 degrees in most towns.

A veteran education lawyer says a determination about the seriousness of the breach will drive any decision regarding the test.

Firefighters responded to a car in a driveway fully engulfed in flames early Saturday in Bay Shore, authorities said.

An inspection sweep netted six arrests Friday at businesses cited for allegedly selling e-liquid nicotine, cigarettes and alcohol to minors in Lindenhurst, West Babylon and Deer Park, police said.

Suffolk police arrested a homeless man Friday and charged him with stealing 21 pairs of jeans from a Sears store at the Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove earlier this month, authorities said.

Former Mt. Sinai man is accused in domestic case. Charges add to list of alleged offenses since ex-Suffolk police chief James Burke beat him in 2012.

A Newsday survey showed 50.4 percent of students in grades 3-8 Islandwide boycotted the state English test. Rates elsewhere in the state rarely exceeded 40 percent, advocacy group says.

The surge of warmth and sun that began Friday returns Saturday -- but its hours are numbered -- meteorologists said, adding that they expected a dip in temperature and more cold rain by Monday.

The $15.7 million project to improve safety and traffic flow on Route 231 at the Northern State Parkway interchange in Dix Hills is in full swing.

Erin Bonitz suffered a fractured jaw and cheek, a deep laceration to her face and a traumatic brain injury, according to the family's attorney.