The toll of repeated threats and shootings has fueled the response to calls for action from survivors of the country's most recent mass school shooting.

"It's wonderful that they are doing so many things for the special-needs community."

The Bridgehampton Fire District was criticized in a recent state comptroller audit for its purchasing practices and for improperly administering its Length of Service Award Program.

This started as a story about a windmill.

Captain Andreas O'Keeffe, 37, was a full-time technician and an Air Guardsman with the 106th Rescue Wing of the New York Air National Guard in Westhampton Beach, according to the Department of Defense.

Bucking a national slide, new-car sales and leases on Long Island have been rising this year as the area's dealerships rebound from slower sales in 2017.

Tuesday -- the first day of spring -- could bring a coastal storm with high winds, heavy snow and coastal flooding, the weather service said.

Lizabeth Ildefonso, 44, drove up to the window and ordered a breakfast sandwich on Friday, officials said. What the Jamesport woman got was led away in handcuffs.

Fire officials are investigating a report that fireworks shot through a bedroom window started a fire that largely consumed the second floor of a home in Centereach.

The blaze that started outside a Queens recycling plant Friday afternoon was finally brought under control Saturday morning, the FDNY said.

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.

A judge has temporarily blocked Suffolk from picking a concessionaire to replace Beach Hut at three county beaches.

A contemporary A-frame home in East Quogue on the market for $754,000 comes with an indoor gunite pool.

Seven U.S. service members were killed Thursday when their helicopter crashed in western Iraq.

A Manorville chapel is getting some extra help after one of its statues of Jesus was defaced, with funds streaming in from parishioners, area residents and an unlikely source -- Pokémon Go players.

Five Manhattan doctors were charged Friday with a kickback scheme to overprescribe the pain medication fentanyl that involved a Long Island pharmaceutical sales manager who doled out lucrative sham speaker's fees, nightclub romps and lap dances.

Eric Bermudez pumped eight bullets into Regina Flecha, prosecutors said. Police caught him driving with his fatally wounded victim in the front passenger seat.

The immediate fate of the trans-Hudson tunnel plan may hang a Congressional spending bill up for a vote next week.

Long Islanders may enjoy the weekend's sunny skies and temperatures in the mid to low 40s, but forecasters will be grappling with prospects for the fourth nor'easter in three weeks that could impact the area Tuesday through Thursday.

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