The governor signed the bill in Brentwood on the anniversary of the slayings of four young men that police attributed to gang members.

With balloons, signs and a police-motorcycle escort, injured Suffolk County Police Officer Donald Dillon returned home a month after police said a drug-impaired driver crashed head-on into his police car.

A super PAC run by Suffolk police unions last year made more than $755,000 in independent expenditures on local political races including a record $329,600 to promote the election of former Police Commissioner Tim Sini for county district attorney.

Suffolk County police said they are seeking the public's help in solving the theft of gay pride flags from the front of a residence in Oakdale.

The state will hold a pair of hearings in Nassau and Suffolk next week to explore the performance of PSEG Long Island during two of last month's four nor'easters.

The Saltaire post office will stay open at least through the summer while officials and residents figure out how to handle the volume of packages that overtakes space and overwhelms staff.

A Huntington Town Board member blasted a land transfer approved at a meeting Tuesday by his colleagues as "unconscionable."

The Town of Babylon is putting more financial pressure on banks that own properties in pre-foreclosure by changing its mortgage-in-default registry fees from annual to biannual payments.

Looking to week's end, we get a two-day warm-up in the 60s and 70s, then a cool-down on Sunday to the mid-40s, forecasters say.

Kelsea Johnson, who graduated from Stony Brook University in May, is making the most of her gap year.

An unlicensed driver ran a stop sign Wednesday morning in Brentwood and hit a school bus, causing minor injuries to three children on the bus, Suffolk County police said.

The family-friendly fair will feature a petting zoo, a butterfly tent and more fun events.

A driver was injured early Wednesday when she crashed into an auto body shop in Patchogue, Suffolk County police said.

An expanded Levitt house, listed for $499,000, features a front porch that the listing agent says "you would normally see in the country, not in Nassau County."

This is a story about Matilda and the two men who loved her.

A teenager faces multiple charges after police said he broke a high school window and spray-painted racially and sexually themed graffiti on the campus.

The bank looked at the financial strength of Harendra Singh and his companies and the picture "was not good," a former bank lending officer testified.

Elementary and middle school students in at least 78 of Long Island's 124 public school districts will start taking the state English Language Arts exam in traditional paper-and-pencil style on Wednesday, as the multiday rollout of this spring's new test timeline continues.

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A Freeport man was indicted Tuesday along with two men from Brooklyn in a scheme that federal prosecutors said involved the bribery of a U.S. Navy employee in the purchase of millions of dollars' worth of alcohol on Long Island at a deep military discount to resell the liquor at a profit.