Bay Shore family thanks officers, lifeguard for rescue
Videos Brentwood teen who almost drowned meets her rescuers Riptide survival Galleries Map Bria Key was swimming with her friends in the ocean off Robert Moses State Park when the Bay Shore teen...
View ArticleLIRR: Bicyclist killed by train near East Moriches
Web links A man was hit and killed by a Long Island Rail Road train near East Moriches about 10:10 a.m. Saturday, a railroad spokeswoman said. Service was suspended between Montauk and Patchogue and...
View ArticleFixing LIPA requires listening to public
Joye Brown Joye Brown Joye Brown has been a columnist for Newsday since 2006. | Two meetings last week marked the first opportunity Long Islanders had to hear -- straight from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's...
View ArticleOperator in Philly collapse deaths surrenders
Photos (AP) -- A heavy equipment operator with a lengthy rap sheet who is accused of being high on marijuana when a downtown building collapsed onto a thrift store, killing six people, surrendered...
View ArticleAccused prostitute held on $500 bail
Galleries Web links A Connecticut woman was arrested Saturday after she offered an undercover officer sex for money in East Meadow, Nassau County police said. Danielle Cummings, 23, of Enfield, was at...
View ArticleRobert Zimmerman working phones for Quinn bid
Long IslanderRobert Zimmerman, a major political fundraiser and Democratic National Committee member, is working the phones this season for New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in her mayoral...
View ArticleRetired bishop dies of LIE crash injuries
Galleries A retired Brooklyn auxiliary bishop who helped lead the Catholic Church's social work in New York City and across the nation has died of injuries sustained in a crash on the Long Island...
View ArticleCuomo Watch: New approach for abortion rights
When Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo made a big splash to draw attention to his controversial proposal to strengthen abortion rights, some saw it as a sign of its doom. At an overflow news conference, the...
View ArticleHome Depot pipe bomb-extortion jury selection starts Monday
Videos Home Depot scare Bomb scare at Huntington Home Depot Shoppers react to Home Depot bomb scare Galleries Web links Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the case of a Deer Park man who...
View Article3 peacocks get new home at ecology center
Galleries Three peacocks, who had briefly flown the coop from their Port Jefferson home, have moved on to accommodations at the Town of Brookhaven's Wildlife and Ecology Center in Holtsville,...
View ArticleMissing Louisiana teacher's car found; body inside
(AP) -- Authorities pulled a missing teacher's car from a New Orleans bayou Saturday and police said there was a decomposed body inside. Authorities couldn't immediately say whether the body was...
View ArticleBlessing in Mount Sinai kicks off summer boating season
Twenty five vessels great and small, among them a refitted tugboat named Tuggin' Aweigh, assembled Sunday morning in Mount Sinai Harbor for the blessing of the fleet. The ritual is centuries old,...
View ArticlePolice: 1 dead in Gordon Heights crash
Galleries Web links One person died in an accident early Friday on Gray Avenue in Gordon Heights, police said. Suffolk County police could not immediately confirm if there were other occupants in the...
View ArticleNassau reopens beaches after heavy rains
Galleries Web links All operating beaches in Nassau County reopened on Sunday after heavy rains forced their closure, the Nassau County Department of Health reported. Nineteen Nassau County beaches...
View ArticleLongwood High mourns teen killed in crash
Videos Raw video: Fatal car accident in Gordon Heights Galleries Web links A 16-year-old boy was killed and three other teens were injured when an unlicensed driver crashed the car they were in early...
View ArticleRemembering LI man's Civil War contribution
When he was growing up in the 1950s, David Carl would take his friends to a shaded cemetery at the edge of Cold Spring Harbor. There, he would point reverently to the grave of a Civil War soldier --...
View ArticleWitnesses: Car in fatal Manhasset crash went airborne
Galleries A man was killed Saturday morning when the car he was driving veered out of control, went airborne and struck several cars before slamming into the front of a body shop in Manhasset,...
View ArticleLIRR: 2 hit, killed in separate crashes
Web links Two people were hit and killed by Long Island Rail Road trains in separate crashes Saturday morning, a railroad spokeswoman said. In the first, a man was hit and killed by a Long Island Rail...
View ArticleBlessing in Mt. Sinai kicks off summer boating season
A deacon and a minister took turns Sunday morning blessing the fleet with a bullhorn from a dock at the Mt. Sinai Yacht Club. The fleet consisted of 25 yachts, sailboats and a refitted tugboat named...
View ArticleRace day excitement builds at Belmont Park
Galleries Despite the monsoon-like weather conditions Friday, the afternoon of the 145th running of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday was clear and warm, and the track at Belmont Park in Elmont -- known...
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