A Lindenhurst man who left a "threatening" phone message for an official at a Rockland County school he attended in 2002 was arrested after police found nine illegal guns at his home, Suffolk police said.

The payment, which county officials said was due March 31, comes from revenue from video slot machines at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Police are seeking the public's help to identify an armed man who they believe stalked a 10-year-old girl in Rockville Centre and has been seen near Francis F. Wilson Elementary School in the village.

The son of the herdsman at what became Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park in Great River, Gilbert Bergen embodied the politeness, kindness, discipline and sportsmanship expected of the gentry.

As Joshua Romoff stood in the Town of Oyster Bay's parking garage in Hicksville on a recent night -- near orange pylons and plastic fencing that blocked off parking spaces from concrete falling from the cracked ceiling -- he said he understood why the town must temporarily close the structure this summer for repairs. But he's still mad -- really mad.

Nicolas Vigliotti, who time and again defied the odds of his rare genetic disorder, remained positive even after he was turned down by donor centers for a lung transplant his doctors said he needed to survive.

A West Virginia man faces multiple weapons-possession charges after he was found with several handguns at a Riverhead motel, police said Sunday.

A Blue Point man was charged with driving while intoxicated early Sunday morning after he crashed his car into the garage of a house in Bayport and fled the scene, Suffolk County police said.

Patchogue officials last week celebrated the opening of a $34 million senior living facility, marking a change in character along Main Street for a village that had focused on attracting young adults and artists.

Richard Albano wept while watching his dream home burn to the ground last month. Now he says he will use photographs and floor plans to rebuild the historic Ebo Hill mansion.

Heavy rain and gusty winds that develop overnight and greet Long Islanders on their Monday morning commute may cause potential road and coastal flooding through the afternoon, meteorologists said.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is blaming much of the latest $955 million budget increase on Amtrak.

Two Shirley men were rescued Saturday night from choppy Plum Gut Harbor waters while a third was helped off their sinking wooden boat that had struck rocks around the Plum Gut lighthouse, authorities said.

Newsday staffers received an additional raft of awards in the Society of the Silurians' Excellence in Journalism contest, the Manhattan-based organization's annual tribute to the best reporting and photography.

Sophisticated therapy that enlists the body to fight cancers of the blood by priming a component of the immune system to strike a specific target is in the vanguard of innovative approaches to malignancies.

Law enforcement agencies on Long Island and New York City are bolstering security and intensifying patrols following Friday night's military airstrikes in Syria, but they say there are no specific or credible threats to the region.

Long Islanders can expect a brief return to winter weather on Sunday, meteorologists said.

Witnesses described discussions in 2010 about securing loans for restaurateur Harendra Singh.

His captors tried but they could never take away the humanity that gave Matthew Schrier the courage to make a daring and against-all-odds successful prison break.

The Town of Babylon on Friday withdrew a controversial plan to create a mixed-use development permit that faced significant opposition from some residents, who said it would diminish quality of life in their neighborhoods.