Orlando E. Tercero, 22, is charged in the Westbury woman's strangulation death, the district attorney said.

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.

Deborah Degrassi, the head children's librarian at Bellmore Memorial Library, has worked to inspire local children to love the library as much as she does. Now she is retiring 38 years later, leaving the only job she's ever known.

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.

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.

Harendra Singh said he learned that if you join the machine, the machine will make you strong.

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

The political ties between former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and former Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto were so strong that Venditto had a town official help Mangano sell a building "circumventing the TOB's normal permitting process," according to federal prosecutors.

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.

Officer Louis Arcila has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges of official misconduct, third-degree sex abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.

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.