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.

The parents of some of the injured students say they worry about the emotional toll of the crash on their children.

The eastbound Long Island Expressway in Manorville reopened after it was closed because a van struck a Suffolk patrol car, injuring an officer assisting with another accident, officials said.

A civil liberties advocacy group is suing Suffolk police, claiming the department did not provide requested information on the identification, arrest and detention of immigrant students accused of gang involvement.

Commercial GPS systems are not mandatory -- and are often not used -- by truck and charter bus companies, despite advanced technology which could potentially have prevented Sunday's parkway bus crash.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who challenged Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary for president, will headline an Old Westbury fundraiser Tuesday night for Democratic congressional candidate Liuba Grechen Shirley.

The spring weather prize is in sight, at least two days of it.

A Hempstead woman was sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing a bystander and injuring two others by ramming her sport utility vehicle into a crowd in 2016.

PSEG Long Island will install an osprey nesting platform in Riverside this week after the power authority removed a nest it said was a fire hazard, leaving a pair of birds without a home.

Three Wyandanch men charged in October with abusing dogs in connection with an Islandwide dogfighting ring have pleaded guilty to felony prohibition of animal fighting charges, officials said.

Acting Suffolk police commissioner Geraldine Hart turned Tuesday's ceremony honoring 24 recently promoted police officers into a family affair.

Seven students were taken to a hospital with minor injuries after their bus was involved in a crash in North Bellport, Suffolk County police said.

The Village of Amityville held three back-to-back public hearings on Monday, all related to a proposal to create a transit-oriented zone.

LIRR riders will continue to deal with Amtrak track repairs at Penn Station as the agency undertakes another round of work through midsummer, Amtrak announced.

The change is meant to lessen class time lost to storms or other interruptions and could also lead to the recognition of new holidays.

Suffolk Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer gave 510 party faithful a dispensation from listening to speeches Monday night at the party's $300-a-head spring dinner at Villa Lombardi's in Holbrook Monday night, to the applause of most of the room.