Suffolk County News

The crash was the second on Sunday involving a drunk driver hitting a marked Suffolk County police patrol car, police said.

One event will highlight the role women played in shaping Long Island's history.

Students and teachers can leave their masks at home on Wednesday, as Gov. Kathy Hochul lifted a hotly debated mandate for face coverings. School districts and private schools can still require face coverings if they want to do so.

In a statement Friday afternoon, the company said it would continue passenger and freight services to Ocean Beach through March 7. If the Village of Ocean Beach and the ferry company cannot agree to a new contract, service could be cut, the company said. 

A Suffolk police sergeant inside a Highway Patrol Bureau vehicle parked on the Long Island Expressway was treated at a hospital for injuries and released, authorities said.

Moonee Rivers, a Gordon Heights native, took over in January as the first woman to lead the hamlet's 46-member fire department. 

He oversaw the 1980s renovation of Shea Stadium and retired after the team won the 1986 World Series.

Boundaries of House districts are substantially different this year after Gov. Kathy Hochul approved new maps drawn by the Democrat-controlled state Legislature.

The town is dedicating up to $290,000 of the $27.77 million it has been slated to receive from the American Rescue Plan Act for reimbursements to lot owners along the Grand Canal.

Ryan Dupuis, 26, was driving shortly before midnight on Sound Avenue near the Northville Turnpike, Riverhead police said, when he left the roadway and struck a tree.

More than a year after the vaccines were first offered, sites that once had long lines are now quiet, with only a small fraction getting inoculated — and enthusiasm has been replaced by hesitation. 

Cameron Batts, a 6th-grader at Woodhull Intermediate School in Huntington, interviewed Rodney Harrison, Suffolk's first Black police commissioner, and other local influencers as part of a Black History Month project. 

With COVID-19 rates continuing to decline, now is a safer time than a few weeks ago to be in crowded indoor settings, but experts have different views on whether it's a good idea to forgo masks, despite new CDC guidance that loosens mask recommendations.

The agency's recommendations are not binding but could give Gov. Kathy Hochul impetus to drop the mandate as early as next week.

Temperatures on Saturday will reach a high of about 34 degrees, with the wind chill value between 10 and 25 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr., lawmakers and mental health advocates came together to create the Riverhead center, which they said is needed more than ever during the pandemic.

Hours after the Feb. 16 tanker truck crash on Sunrise Highway, driver Emanuel Thornton, of Bay Shore, was found by police in Bellmore after getting out of a taxi taking him home from Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital, according to village police records.  

Christopher Cruz of Long Beach filed the lawsuit nearly one year after he alleges he was punched and kicked on Feb. 24, 2021, by a group of Suffolk officers who cursed him and used racial slurs during the attack.

Here are three major myths and the facts about them, according to three of the top medical experts on LI who specialize in infectious disease and have years of training in the field.

A coating to two inches of snow and sleet are possible for Long Island from the overnight winter storm, but as temperatures rise Friday, the precipitation should turn to rain, the National Weather Service said.