Suffolk County News

Educators credit a high economic demand for skilled workers and a more rigorous college-aligned curriculum for the spike.

Someone with a booster shot was 91% less likely to be hospitalized than an unvaccinated person after two months, and 78% less likely four months later, according to CDC data.

Long Islanders gave about $300,000 in at least 5,000 contributions split between residents of Nassau and Suffolk counties.

A U.S. district judge on Friday rejected a request for a temporary restraining order. The lawsuit argued that the mandate, which was going into effect Friday, is unconstitutionally discriminatory. 

As a teen growing up in India, Jyothis Joy was told her personality was a good match for the nursing profession. Years later on Long Island, her patients and colleagues agree.

Sahlise Cherry and two of her children will be the first to occupy one of the five homes being built in the hamlet of Riverside by Habitat for Humanity of Suffolk and the Southampton Housing Authority.

A 75-year-old man from New Mexico sent cash to an address in Southampton, thinking he was collecting a lottery prize. But police, who intercepted the money, said it was an elder scam.

Saturday will be partly sunny with a high near 53 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

A Valley Stream man died after his Jeep Grand Cherokee swerved into oncoming traffic and hit head on a school bus occupied by a driver and a child in Riverhead Thursday, town police said. 

Waverly Lucas, 48, of Wyandanch suffered a fractured orbital bone, blurred vision, a wrist injury and emotional trauma, according to a notice of claim filed against Suffolk County.

Responding officers found the victim, who had been shot eight times in the head, neck, chest and arm, in a red Honda CR-V, police said.

Eng, president of the LIRR since 2018, will be replaced by Metro-North president Catherine Rinaldi, who will lead the nation's two largest commuter railroads for the remainder of 2022, officials said.

In honor of the late Huntington Station football coach William Earl Thomas III, the Huntington Town Board has voted to name the entrance road to Manor Field Park at 90 East 5th St. "William Thomas Way." 

The legacy of a hero Suffolk County police officer, killed 13 years ago by a drunken driver, will be honored again Saturday as his local fire department hosts a blood drive in his memory.

The ruling stems from a 2017 suit against the Town of Smithtown by an East Quogue bow hunters advocacy group, Hunters For Deer. 

State and federal officials are expected to be in East Hampton Friday to mark the beginning of work for New York State's first offshore wind farm.

Until now, the only hospitals near Long Island performing lung transplants were located in Manhattan or the Bronx.

Another man was injured in the crash, which occurred near Exit 59 at around 5:25 a.m., Suffolk police said.

The man allegedly got a woman's phone number after pulling her over last month, then solicited a nude photograph, Suffolk police said.

Removing the school mask mandate on March 7 is "a very strong possibility," Gov. Kathy Hochul said after announcing that COVID-19 test kits will be given to students to test twice in the first week after they return from the winter break later this month.