Three Wyandanch men charged in October with abusing dogs in connection with an Islandwide dogfighting ring have pleaded guilty to felony prohibition of animal fighting charges, officials said.

Acting Suffolk police commissioner Geraldine Hart turned Tuesday's ceremony honoring 24 recently promoted police officers into a family affair.

Seven students were taken to a hospital with minor injuries after their bus was involved in a crash in North Bellport, Suffolk County police said.

The Village of Amityville held three back-to-back public hearings on Monday, all related to a proposal to create a transit-oriented zone.

LIRR riders will continue to deal with Amtrak track repairs at Penn Station as the agency undertakes another round of work through midsummer, Amtrak announced.

The change is meant to lessen class time lost to storms or other interruptions and could also lead to the recognition of new holidays.

Suffolk Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer gave 510 party faithful a dispensation from listening to speeches Monday night at the party's $300-a-head spring dinner at Villa Lombardi's in Holbrook Monday night, to the applause of most of the room.

Brookhaven Town Councilman Kevin LaValle says he remains optimistic that a $100 million housing project touted two years ago as an anchor for downtown Farmingville will eventually be just that.

Sellers Lydia and Ray Pynn

The Pynns' home, which they estimate to be 3,800 square feet, offers vintage charm but modern amenities.

'I may never feel warm again!'

When responsible first-time homebuyers need help buying a home, the family bank sometimes can lend a hand.

A pink cottage in Flanders, down the road from Reeves Bay, has hit the market for $300,000.

A Maltipoo puppy worth about $2,500 was stolen from a Huntington Station pet store Monday morning, Suffolk police said in asking for the public's help to find the thief.

Congressional candidate Liuba Grechen Shirley, who is running in a Democratic primary to face Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford), has asked the Federal Election Commission for an advisory opinion about whether she can use campaign funds for childcare.

Geraldine Hart, a 21-year-veteran of the FBI, spent her first day as acting commissioner in wall-to-wall meetings, hard at work on her first objective: a top-to-bottom assessment of the department.

Emergency workers from several departments scrambled after the first call. Now all they can think about is how much worse the injuries could have been.

Breaking ranks

An "enforcer" in the MS-13 gang tried to recruit new members by threatening to kill those who refused, authorities said in announcing a conviction.

A grand jury has indicted a Deer Park man for causing the death of an Adelphi University student in November when he dragged her through a parking lot and then ran over the woman, officials said.