As longtime Nassau GOP chairman Joseph Mondello readies for Senate confirmation hearings for the ambassadorship to Trinidad and Tobago, his top lieutenant, has emerged as a top prospect to succeed him.
The only child of Louise Pietrewicz may soon finally bring her mother home, more than 50 years after the North Fork woman mysteriously disappeared in 1966.
Harendra Singh said in testimony against former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano that he obtained a county contract and helped then-acting Sheriff Michael Sposato get job security through his friendship with Mangano.
The Suffolk County Legislature began consideration of a bill to require restaurants that serve fish to post warnings about possible mercury contamination, as a Nesconset teenager testified Tuesday she was poisoned last year after eating too much sushi and too many tuna sandwiches.
It's especially rare for meteorologists at the National Weather Service's Upton office ever to set eyes again on the helium-filled weather balloons they launch twice a day -- be it in rain, shine, or anything in between, nor'easters included.
The LIRR's overall customer satisfaction rating of 77 percent was the lowest since the railroad began using a percentage scoring system in 2009, and a big drop from last year's score of 84 percent.
Volunteer fire officials Tuesday pressed Suffolk lawmakers to preserve a ban on sparkler sales to protect youngsters from burn injuries despite a new state law that automatically makes such sales legal unless counties opt out.
A Jericho attorney who spent $187,000 of her client's lawsuit settlement funds on personal expenses and luxury items, including a BMW, was sentenced to 3 1/3 to 10 years in prison Tuesday, Nassau authorities said.