As a cold, driving wind lashed Long Island with rain and sleet Friday morning, the people on South Long Beach Avenue in Freeport seemed to tell the story through one street.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Leonard Genova with "defrauding investors."

The Nassau County SPCA said its investigators found a malnourished 6-month-old Labrador retriever caged and unable to stand in the basement of a North Merrick pet store.

Judge moves trial on assault charge against former Babylon Town councilman Lindsay Henry, citing nor'easter hitting Long Island.

The Long Island Rail Road said buses will replace trains during the next two weekends on a section of the Ronkonkoma Branch.

A Commack student's research on kidney disease has led to two articles being published in a science journal.

Teams from Great Neck South, Syosset and Ward Melville high schools have taken the top spots in this year's Long Island Regional Science Olympiads.

Suffolk County police are asking for the public's help in finding a man who recorded a woman in a dressing room in East Farmingdale last month.

This millennial activist met with President Obama's environmental equality council when he was in high school.

The Hempstead school board voted Thursday night to extend embattled Superintendent Shimon Waronker's paid administrative leave another 22 days and hire a security consultant in response to a state report detailing district safety issues.

The rain could mix with or change to snow at times, and there is a risk of flooding as well as coastal flooding.

The move comes after several other austerity measures did not produce the needed savings, officials said.

As many as 19 of 29 railroads are at risk of missing the Dec. 31 deadline to have the lifesaving technology on line, the GAO said.

Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said the arrests were part of a hot-spot crackdown based on the department's new anti-opioids mapping.

New York State agencies are gearing up for a Thursday-to-Saturday nor'easter that could drench and blast Long Island with rain and high winds and envelop upstate with snow, officials said.

For the past year, THRIVE has provided Long Islanders in recovery a place to go for help bridging the gap between treatment programs and sticking with healthier choices once they leave.

Suffolk County sheriff officials, trying to ease concerns the county jail could house hundreds of federal immigration detainees, told county lawmakers they so far have held only one to three such detainees at a time.

Sure, Alicia Napoleon always saw herself living in the spotlight.

"He just loved, loved the motorcycle," said his sister Diane Facciarossa, a Newsday employee.

The mother of a Brentwood teen allegedly slain by MS-13 gang members made a plea for better school programs to help young people.