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.
The 17-year-old convicted of a notorious Christmas 1990 killing during a showing of "The Godfather" at a Valley Stream movie theater filed a federal class action suit Tuesday against the state parole board for alleged unconstitutional handling of applications from juvenile criminals.
"Hope always wins, and love conquers all -- that's what the High Holy Days that are approaching are all about," the Rev. Greg Rannazzisi said just hours before the new statue was to be put in place.
Recently we went to screening of the new film "Pacific Rim Uprising." It is the sequel to "Pacific Rim." Set in the future, peace has remained on Earth for 10 years since the war against the Kaiju, creatures from another universe, emerging from the Pacific Rim, a portal in the ocean floor.