Long Island

Illegal street racers stepped on the gas when police came to shut down their event on Long Island, but authorities said several of the drivers had to run on foot after crashing their rides. Two police officers were also involved in crashes, with each striking a pole during their response. Firefighters from Islip were dispatched around 2 a.m. Sunday for...

A Long Island man is being hailed a hero after he saved a 10-year-old boy who was struggling in the surf while on vacation in Bermuda — but sadly, the man did not survive.

Families on Long Island are confused and angry after receiving letters saying their relative has registered to vote. The problem? All those supposed new voters are dead.

Four people were killed and nine others were left injured after a vehicle plowed into a strip mall on Long Island, according to officials.

New York State Police returned Monday to the Massapequa Park home of the suspect in the Gilgo Beach serial killings to execute a search warrant, according to the attorney for Rex Heuermann’s ex-wife. Heuermann, an architect, was arrested in July 2023 in connection to a string of murders and bodies found along Gilgo Beach on Long Island. He has been charged...

State and local law enforcement officers descended on an area of Long Island’s Manorville Wednesday for a search as part of their ongoing investigation into the Gilgo Beach serial killings, according to a law enforcement source with knowledge of the situation. An NYPD officer at the scene told NBC New York the search area was focused at Schultz Road...

The MTV Video Music Awards are returning to New York state, where they were first held back in the 1980s, following a two-year run at the Prudential Center in Newark. MTV announced Wednesday the 2024 VMAs will take place Sept. 10 at the UBS Arena on Long Island. UBS Arena, home to the New York Islanders, has hosted concerts, college…

A 58-year-old physician at a Long Island children’s hospital is dead after falling out of a moving house trailer when the wind blew the door open on a highway over the weekend, authorities say.

A head and another arm were recovered at a Long Island park where homicide detectives returned Friday to search for more body parts, a day after two arms and a leg turned up within about a mile of each other in the area, authorities say.

First, two children on their way to school found a human arm. Then the leg turned up.

The wife and daughter of former mob boss John Gotti Jr. were charged with assault after throwing fists and ripping the wig off a woman during a brawl at a Long Island high school basketball game, according to police documents.

A Long Island man tried to sell his Rolex through Facebook Marketplace, but the buyer wasn’t looking to pay the price, or any money at all.

A man with a gun terrorized a Long Island gas station employee after his debit card was denied, police said, wrecking the store and pointing a gun at the worker in order to allow him to pump some gas — but barely enough to even get a gallon’s worth.

The 43-year-old shouted at the boy when he ran back to the door to retrieve candy mistakenly left at the wrong house, according to the criminal complaint.

A man wearing a fencing mask and holding two swords was shot and killed by officers inside his Long Island home, according to police.

Evidently police believe Hanna, who has been a bus driver for 15 years. She was fired Wednesday after reportedly drinking with students from Smithtown High School West on the bus.

The Flushing teacher and youth baseball coach is facing consequences after a video surfaced from a road rage incident earlier this month.

The parents of a 5-year-old Long Island boy are furious after their kindergartener was able to walk out of his elementary school, undetected, and walked nearly a third of a mile to his house. It was his parents who learned he had left school.

A memorial has been growing by the minute for the two devoted educators killed in Thursday’s rollover bus crash in Orange County. Gina Pellettiere and Beatrice Ferrari were two of the chaperones on board the bus carrying mostly freshmen students from Farmingdale High School to northern Pennsylvania, where the school’s band attends the annual camp. Five students remained in...

Suffolk County police are investigating after a 30-foot powerboat flew out of the water and crashed into the deck of a home on West Fire Island Thursday morning, police said. Two men were on board the boat at the time of the crash, according to authorities. One was pronounced dead at the scene and the other was taken to the…