LIer's artwork helped set the scene.

Skeletal remains in a Southold basement were discovered Monday by police looking into a 52-year-old cold case of a missing woman, Suffolk homicide detectives said.

Restaurateur Harendra Singh testified that he hired the wife of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and paid her $100,000 annually -- at Mangano's request -- but expected no work from her.

Andrea Rothbort lays in bed at night haunted by the images of April 22, 2017, when her 77-year-old parents, Barbara and Melvyn Glickman, were fatally struck by a Ford Explorer driven by John Hartwig of East Massapequa.

A drug recovery and parenting story is detailed in a challenge to a law requiring anti-abortion centers give clients options to terminate pregnancy elsewhere.

A winter storm watch has been issued for Long Island from 4 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday, with wet, heavy snow possible, as the fourth nor'easter in three weeks is expected, forecasters said.

Suffolk County Police reported Monday that they were investigating the death -- described as "non-criminal" -- of an unidentified man whose body was found on the grounds of Huntington High School.

Mondello, who has led the Nassau County Republican Committee since 1983, was an early supporter of President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

Their remains arrived at Dover Air Force Base aboard a giant C-17 aircraft, and were carried from its cargo hold by a procession of seven airmen during a dignified transfer, a spokesman said.

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The Hempstead Town Board is to vote Tuesday to appoint a union electrician to the town's Industrial Development Agency board, according to the meeting's agenda.

Voters go to the polls Tuesday in a handful of contested elections for village positions.

Three people were injured, including a newborn, in an accident in Hauppauge involving a Jeep and a garbage truck, police said.

The Springs home and studio of prominent midcentury artists James Brooks and Charlotte Park -- contemporaries and close friends of Jackson Pollock -- will be the latest location preserved to honor the abstract expressionist movement's history in the hamlet.

A Port Jefferson Victorian with many original details is on the market for $975,000.

March 6 began for Acting Suffolk County Police Commissioner Stuart Cameron with an interview in English on a Spanish-language television outlet, where he touted the advances his department has made in working with foreign-language speakers.

As it worked to keep pace with a stormy winter season, PSEG Long Island was able to take advantage of something few utilities in the state or nation can: a federally funded force of hundreds of workers ready to respond.

Pillars of Long Island's past -- a legendary post-World War II suburb; a hotbed of early aviation; a critical element in the battle against Nazi Germany; and a stronghold of Roman Catholicism -- could qualify for grants and tax breaks.

Stores in Sea Cliff will soon begin charging customers a fee for carry-out plastic bags after the village board unanimously voted to implement the new policy.

Westhampton Beach's Main Street business district and two condominium complexes will be able to connect to Suffolk County's wastewater treatment plant at Gabreski Airport under a bill signed Sunday by County Executive Steve Bellone.