Two women were charged Wednesday in connection with the theft of a walker belonging to a 75-year-old Navy veteran that was outside a Lindenhurst bakery, Suffolk police said.

A city Department of Transportation worker was struck and killed on the Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx by a driver who had lost control of his vehicle Wednesday, police said.

Violent crime, including homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, dropped 18.9 percent, and shootings were down 47 percent.

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

Former Old Field Village trustee Ted M. Rosenberg has unseated Justice Ron LaVita in a special election after the candidates finished in a tie last month.

Edwin Amaya-Sanchez, 30, said he and other gang members discussed, planned, then shot Jose Lainez-Murcia on July 24, 2014.

The defense attorney for former town supervisor John Venditto sought to show that his client wasn't key to the town-guaranteed loans that Singh secured.

Lorianne Hoenninger, an educator and consultant who helped thousands of Long Island children with special needs in a career that spanned nearly 50 years, died March 5 at Stony Brook University Hospital.

Officers went to the home after the couple's daughter, who lives out of state, called 911 to ask police to check on her parents, police said.

A developer began demolishing the first of two 19th-century buildings slated for redevelopment despite calls from community members to preserve them.

Spring weather continues to boycott the area, with Long Island now looking at possible episodes of snow through the weekend and into early next week, forecasters said.

How sweet is it to receive a lottery ticket from your parents on Valentine's Day, one that translates into $34,934 a year for the rest of your life?

Dan Levler on Wednesday won his first full term as president of the Suffolk Association of Municipal Employees, the largest of the county's unions with more than 6,000 white- and blue-collar workers.

Developer Jerry Wolkoff has formally asked Suffolk County for a 50 percent discount on sewer connection fees that would save him $12 million on the 9,000 unit Heartland Town Square project in Brentwood.

LIPA last week rejected last-minute appeals by more than a dozen local solar companies to delay a new state plan for compensating customers for excess solar energy they generate.

Charlie Kessler, a director and producer from East Northport, said he presented an idea for a movie called "The Montauk Project," based on a short film he made in 2012, to Matt and Ross Duffer in April 2014.

The number of private wells in Wainscott with trace or elevated levels of contaminants that could affect fetal health and the immune system has grown to 135, or more than half of those tested, according to East Hampton's town supervisor.

A Mastic Beach man was charged with drunken driving after his pickup truck struck a utility pole Tuesday night and overturned, Suffolk County police said.

A Sound Beach man has been charged with drunken driving after his car hit another vehicle in the hamlet Tuesday night, Suffolk County police said.

Investigators believe someone may have released pepper spray from a canister and by the time the air was tested, the irritant had likely dispersed enough so that it did not show up on sensors.