Long Island

A United States postal worker has been arrested for allegedly stealing Costco rewards checks from the Long Island mail facility where he worked, authorities say. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

A message in a bottle turned up on Long Island. Turns out, it was sent as a desperate plea for companionship during COVID lockdowns at the height of the pandemic — and the message is resonating with millions.

Richard Cottingham has claimed to be responsible for up to 100 murders. Prosecutors say Diane Cusick was one of them.

A Long Island man’s yearslong scheme to collect disability insurance benefits all the while he trained for bodybuilding competitions and owned and operated a limousine business was foiled by a series of social media posts, state officials said. Instagram posts chronicling Anthony Ragusa’s physical transformation as a bodybuilder helped the state attorney general’s office catch the fraudster for illegally...

It’s an all-too-familiar story: Someone hits the gas instead of the brake pedal. But they don’t all end up in bays. And they certainly don’t all have 17-year-olds diving after them.

Multiple children were hurt in what authorities have described as an inflatable slide mishap at a park in Suffolk County Tuesday morning, according to police.

Five local boardwalks in New York and New Jersey are among the best in the country, according to a recent list by a national travel site.

Dramatic rescue footage showed four injured sailors stranded after their boat was badly damaged in rough seas 80 miles south of Long Island, and the daring rescue to attempt to save them.

The 911 calls are disorganized. At times she is coherent. At others, she slurs her words. Sometimes she doesn’t respond at all. And at times, she is heard screaming.

Call it the shot heard ’round the tri-state: A Long Island mom was arrested and charged after allegedly giving a COVID-19 vaccine shot to her son’s friend, without the parent’s permission. Laura Parker Russo is facing a felony charge and potential prison time for injecting the vaccine into the arm of a 17-year-old inside her home on New year’s...

Callers told a Long Island woman she needed to pay $8,000 to bail out her grandson from jail after a drunken car crash. The grandmother of seven knew instantly it was a scam, but she had an idea, and set a trap with the help of police.

New details about the unsolved strangulation murder of a Long Island wife and mother in an island paradise three years ago have emerged, shedding new light on what may have been an investigator believes was a violent struggle.

Dina Lohan, actor Lindsay Lohan’s mother, was sentenced Friday to 18 days in jail and five years’ probation after pleading guilty to felony DWI in connection with a 2020 crash where she rear-ended a car near a Long Island mall, officials said. Lohan, 59, also pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident without reporting it in the Jan….

A Long Island family is back together again after a Thanksgiving Grinch tried to ruin the holiday weekend. A Huntington couple spent the day after Thanksgiving frantically searching for their French Bulldog who was swiped Thursday night when a burglar broke into their home, stealing 4-year-old Stella and a PlayStation 5. Instead of snagging doorbuster deals or filling up on…

There’s one reason police made a mistake early in their Brian Laundrie investigation, an official says — and it had nothing to do with them.

With Brian Laundrie’s autopsy report inconclusive, and the DNA match to Gabby Petito’s body unclear, many wonder if the notebook found near his remains could contain a suicide note that may hold the answers.

Dental records confirm that the human remains recovered at the Florida environmental park are of Brian Laundrie, the FBI said on Thursday.

How long does it take a body to decompose? That’s one question people are asking as we learn more about the findings in Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park.

It is “highly probable” that the human remains found inside a Florida nature preserve on Wednesday are those of Brian Laundrie, given they were discovered near the 23-year-old’s backpack and hiking gear, the family’s attorney says, but the missing man’s parents will await forensic confirmation before they speak further.

The FBI field office in Tampa is holding a news conference after a senior law enforcement official said partial human remains appear to have been found near a backpack in connection with the ongoing search for Brian Laundrie.