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.

Long Islanders took advantage of one of the first warm days of spring as temperatures topped out at 70 degrees in most towns.

On her 100th day in office, Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen said she had hoped for more support and bipartisanship from her colleagues on the town board.

A veteran education lawyer says a determination about the seriousness of the breach will drive any decision regarding the test.

Firefighters responded to a car in a driveway fully engulfed in flames early Saturday in Bay Shore, authorities said.

An inspection sweep netted six arrests Friday at businesses cited for allegedly selling e-liquid nicotine, cigarettes and alcohol to minors in Lindenhurst, West Babylon and Deer Park, police said.

Suffolk police arrested a homeless man Friday and charged him with stealing 21 pairs of jeans from a Sears store at the Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove earlier this month, authorities said.

A rare legal two-family home in Port Washington has come on the market for $939,000.

A rare legal two-family home in Port Washington has come on the market for $939,000.

A Freeport man who drove a Hyundai with a visible spare tire exposed himself to girls in three separate instances this year, Nassau police said Friday in announcing his arrest.

Former Mt. Sinai man is accused in domestic case. Charges add to list of alleged offenses since ex-Suffolk police chief James Burke beat him in 2012.

Workers who pumped diesel fuel into a premium gas storage tank last weekend put high-octane fuel in a diesel storage tank, Nassau officials said Friday in an update of the mishap at a Franklin Square Exxon station.

A Newsday survey showed 50.4 percent of students in grades 3-8 Islandwide boycotted the state English test. Rates elsewhere in the state rarely exceeded 40 percent, advocacy group says.

The surge of warmth and sun that began Friday returns Saturday -- but its hours are numbered -- meteorologists said, adding that they expected a dip in temperature and more cold rain by Monday.

The $15.7 million project to improve safety and traffic flow on Route 231 at the Northern State Parkway interchange in Dix Hills is in full swing.

Erin Bonitz suffered a fractured jaw and cheek, a deep laceration to her face and a traumatic brain injury, according to the family's attorney.