"We were freaking out a little. We didn't really believe what we were looking at," said said one of the fishermen who spotted the shark. "It's pretty rare."

Pericles Linardos said he has spent five years filing court motions and appeals since the Village of Muttontown fined him almost $23,000 for having trees removed from his front yard after superstorm Sandy.

Generations of production workers gathered Saturday night to witness a milestone in Newsday's nearly 80 years of serving Long Island.

The Village of Nissequogue Fire Department is buying a $47,000 powered stretcher and ambulance load system, in part because people are getting too heavy for emergency personnel to safely lift, said Chief Russell von Frank.

Progressive grassroots groups that emerged on Long Island after the election of President Donald Trump, seeking to avoid the party rancor of 2016, are agreeing to agree: They'll support any Democrat who wins in the June 26 congressional primaries.

On June 13, 1978, the Westhampton Beach-based unit lost seven members when one of its helicopters slammed into a rain-shrouded Adirondack peak.

Widespread delays plagued train riders heading to Belmont Park for the third leg of the Triple Crown on Saturday, leaving thousands of people jammed together for an hour or more in crowded train cars.

The 15-year-old girl who was the driver in an SUV crash that killed three teens is facing a half-dozen criminal charges, including manslaughter.

Women in fancy hats and men in pastel colors stood out among the tens of thousands who converged on Belmont Park to watch a chestnut colt make its run for glory Saturday.

A Coram man who fired a rifle at a group of people in Middle Island on Friday and fled the state was found dead of a gunshot wound after a confrontation with New Jersey State Police, authorities said.

A Hempstead pizza deliveryman, who faced deportation late Friday, was granted an emergency stay Saturday by a federal judge in Manhattan.

Sunny skies and temperatures in the 70s will blanket Long Island this week, including Sunday for the Pride on the Beach festival in Long Beach.

Long Island war veterans gathered Saturday in Center Moriches for a day of spiritual healing, kayaking and information-gathering on services crucial to them and their families.

A motorcyclist was killed Friday evening during a crash in Elmont.

Suffolk County police arrested a Lindenhurst man charged with assaulting five people, including two police officers, during a domestic dispute Friday.

Suffolk County police charged a Mastic Beach man with driving while intoxicated Friday night after a crash that injured a 12-year-old girl.

Three people were hurt in a two-vehicle crash Saturday morning in Brentwood, police said.

For nearly a year, Stony Brook University student Luigi Pesce says the main way he ate was by attending campus events where free food was being provided. He would bring Tupperware with him to take leftovers to last him until the next event.

A Cape in Baxter Estates Village with views of Mill Pond is on the market for $749,000.

Hundreds packed a church Friday morning to memorialize three members of an East Hampton family lost in a plane crash a week ago.