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The funding will go toward mobile food distribution, mental health counseling, and to help families struggling through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Police in Nassau and Suffolk have formed partnerships with advocates and are enforcing a New York law requiring police to make arrests after most domestic violence reports.

The idyllic vision of keeping a backyard homestead sometimes does not mirror the reality of densely populated Long Island life — especially when neighbors, or owners, begin squawking along with the roosters, who are often misidentified at birth as female chicks.

A West Babylon man was critically injured when he was ejected from his motorcycle in a crash Friday evening in North Lindenhurst, police said.

The first construction contract will be for dredging the Fire Island Inlet and placing sand near Gilgo Beach in Babylon Town and Robert Moses State Park on Fire Island, work that is to begin in late December and wrap up in the spring. 

The sole passenger in a car that crashed into a Flanders home occupied by four people not long before dawn Friday was ejected — and later pronounced dead at a hospital, Southampton police said.

After a warm, sunny Friday that felt like early fall, Saturday will feel much more like what the calendar says it is: very late fall.

A Brentwood street was dedicated in honor of Suffolk County sheriff's Investigator Sgt. Keith Allison, who died last year after contracting COVID-19.

The CDC recommendation that coronavirus-exposed kids can stay in school if tested got mixed reactions on Long Island, where the region's positivity rate hit 8% in the latest figures.

Police on Long Island and across the country were responding to a threat made on TikTok, with officers visiting schools as an extra precaution.

Laundrie's parents have petitioned the court for access to Laundrie's approximately $20,000 in Bank of America checking and savings accounts in probate court.

The town board voted 6-0 against retail sales and onsite facilties for consumption and also passed a resolution banning the smoking or vaping of tobacco and cannabis on town property, including the dock, beaches and parks.  

Nassau and Suffolk counties rank 14th among the 100 largest U.S. metro areas in job shortfall, according to research by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. 

Alexis Hernandez, 25, of Central Islip, admitted that he was armed with a wooden club when he led the victims deeper into a wooded area where they were killed by other MS-13 members in 2017, prosecutors said.

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Those who attended the rally were asked to sign a proclamation against hate, calling for greater compassion and condemning recent acts of intolerance and bigotry on Long Island. 

A pair of LIRR workers responsible for plugging overnight staffing shortages were suspended after they were found sleeping on makeshift beds in a dark Queens office, according to a report from the MTA's internal watchdog.

The above-average temperatures continue until the weekend, which will see a chilly, wet Saturday and a cool Sunday, the National Weather Service said.

The latest state data suggested the Island's recovery was continuing at a slow pace.

The plans to redevelop the park has been in the works for years and upgrades are expected to bring an array of amenities, including, a restaurant with an outdoor terrace, a sensory garden and a climbing wall.