In her first 100 days in office, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran had to find $45 million to pay a lawsuit judgment and marshal county resources to respond to four nor'easters. She also banned her appointees from accepting gifts as minor as a cup of coffee from county vendors.
A provision in New York State's recently passed budget envisions the state buying more than 800 acres of prized woodlands around the shuttered Shoreham nuclear plant, but does not provide any funding.
Officials in a Fire Island village said they are considering whether to close down their seasonal post office as packages from online retailers have overtaken office space and increased operating costs nearly tenfold.
The Smithtown town attorney said last week that a Manhattan-based nonprofit serving people with developmental disabilities apparently "misled" the town and its residents in its "surreptitious" handling of the purchase of a Commack house to use as a group home.
It's first-class all the way at The French Workshop in Garden City, from the exquisite French-style pastries to the silver salvers they are served on, to the marble-top tables at which you consume them.
A nonprofit serving people with developmental disabilities plans to open a home for five clients in Commack, but neighbors said the home would bring traffic, quality of life and safety problems.
An expanded Levitt house, listed for $499,000, features a front porch that the listing agent says "you would normally see in the country, not in Nassau County."
The nature of truth, love and friendship appeared to have flexible meanings in the mind of Harendra Singh, depending on how much trouble he was in and with whom, defense attorneys for John Venditto and Linda Mangano tried to show last week.
Prosecutors originally asked for bail to be set at $1 million cash and $2 million bond in light of the semi-automatic weapons police found at his home.
Robert Zimmerman came to his senses screaming. His arms felt locked in place and he remembers that the pain coursing throughout his body was unbearable.
Neil Tiger, a former Suffolk Democratic elections commissioner, Southampton Democratic chairman and veteran party lawyer, has died after a yearlong battle with bladder cancer. He was 69.