Suffolk County News

Long Island is bracing for a two-day winter storm arriving Friday night that forecasters said will bring 8 to 18 inches of snow, high winds and potential blizzard conditions.

A scientist at heart, renowned fossil finder and Stony Brook professor Richard Leakey also was a prodigious fundraiser, a mesmerizing lecturer, a fine chef, winemaker and host, according to friends and colleagues.

Richard Rosenberg "had a wonderful dry wit, and he was a terrifically nuanced headline writer," said a co-worker at the newspaper.

These supercharged storms occur when a mass of cold air "collides" with a warmer mass of air and there is a dramatic drop in air pressure, the National Weather Service says.

"I left prison 12 years ago but today, for the first time in 40 years, I feel free," Rodolfo Taylor said in Criminal Court in Riverhead.

The 2022 edition of the Islip Journal of War Veterans will feature veterans who served from the first Gulf War through the present. The entries will include the names, photos and hometowns of the veterans, their branch and dates of service, and any medals and honors awarded to them. 

Suffolk police said Lee Pulliam entered a neighbor's home in Manorville during a dispute on Christmas Eve without permission. The charges prompted Southampton's board to strip Pulliam, whose annual salary is $152,000, of pay for 30 days.

A state mandate to wear masks in schools and other indoor public places is back in effect for now after a state appellate division judge on Tuesday suspended, or "stayed," a ruling by a judge in Nassau County that the mandate was illegal.

Superseding indictment alleges a commercial trawler captain overharvested and sold $850,000 worth of illegal fish.

"I kept asking can we get there faster," recalled Chelsea Anderson of the birth of her son in an ambulance. "He was not waiting. In the blink of an eye, he was coming. He was ready and I was ready."

The scheme attempts to bilk consumers by offering COVID-19 tests provided by the federal government in exchange for personal and financial information, according to state consumer and health department officials.

Forecasts call for heavy snow and strong winds from the powerful winter storm, which will begin hitting Friday night, according to the National Weather Service. But the storm track is still uncertain.

Melville-based H2M architects + engineers was retained to identify restrictions that may cause flooding in the vicinity of Warwick, Plymouth and Chadwick roads.

There are growing concerns among commuters about aggressive and potentially violent homeless people in the transit system, including at Long Island Rail Road stations.

The proposal for the 50-bed facility in Fort Salonga elicited opposition from neighbors and a local civic group who said it was inappropriate for their residential area.

The LIRR's annual on-time performance of 96.3% was the highest since the railroad adopted its record-keeping system nearly 50 years ago. It's the second consecutive year that the LIRR set the modern record, having run 95.9% of its trains on time in 2020.

Among the questions driving the often heated disagreements over masked-up children in schools: When is a parent's right to decide what's best for their children supplanted by the need to protect the public at large from spread of the coronavirus?

After World War II, Margaret Doran Glaser became of the first trans-Atlantic flight attendants when she was hired by American Overseas Airlines.

The move reflects, in part, an expanded use of online technology in education spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Manhattan-based College Board introduced the written exam nearly a century ago.

Their criticism came on the eve of a vote by county lawmakers on a redistricting compromise announced by County Executive Steve Bellone and legislative leader Kevin McCaffrey.