Long Island

With American vacationers congregating in many of the same destinations, some travel spots — even well-known ones — have fewer people than usual.

One widely circulated video posted to Facebook shows the animal charging through a woman’s front yard as a swarm of cops give chase.

A massive, nearly 900-pound white shark known as Freya was spotted off the coast of the Jersey Shore and Long Island over the past few days, according to the nonprofit OCEARCH.  Freya’s last location was pinged in Block Island Sound, off of Montauk, New York, Monday night shortly before 11:15 p.m., OCEARCH announced. Freya, an 11’8″, 883-pound sub-adult female white...

A Long Island woman got the shock of her life after she stepped outside her home and saw what she thought was a garden hose in her driveway — but turned out to be an eight-foot Burmese python, several inches thick.

Police on Long Island have charged a 23-year-old man with killing a dog and threatening a relative during a video phone call. Suffolk County Police said Saturday that they charged the Brentwood man with aggravated cruelty to animals and aggravated harassment in connection with the dog killing and threats last Tuesday. Authorities said they were not releasing the man’s...

Dowling College in Oakdale has been closed for five years, but some residents who live in the area say that it’s still buzzing with activity — just not the kind they want to see

On Thursday, Nassau County police said that a 21-year-old CVS employee was arrested after allegedly pilfering eight pre-filled vaccination cards, just missing the names of the people who would potentially use them, along with 54 blank ones that were found in his car as well

Ann Mazze is a spunky 95-year-old woman who resides in Levittown — as she has for more than 50 years. However, an unexpected Nassau County mistake has put her in a financial bind. Recently, the Nassau County Department of Assessment mistakenly reported due to a clerical error that Mazze had died, causing her to lose her Enhanced STAR for low-income seniors,…

Jonathan Yellowday found a bag of diamond rings Thursday and returned them to the jeweler before he even noticed they were gone.

Inside a bag that was left behind on a Long Island Rail Road train, a conductor found a jewelry portfolio containing 36 precious diamond ring settings — valued at around $100,000

A Long Island college student says her life may never be the same after someone threw acid in her face in the middle of the night, while she was in her own driveway.

Police say an employee shot three workers inside an office at a Long Island grocery store Tuesday, killing a manager

A Florida woman who claimed she is Harry Potter struck and killed a federal judge visiting from New York and seriously injured a 6-year-old boy after swerving her car onto a sidewalk, officials said.

The white headmaster of a New York Catholic school who made a Black student kneel as part of an apology to a teacher has resigned, the school said Wednesday.

A New York City police officer who’s been arrested twice for alleged brutality was arrested again Sunday after police on Long Island say he fired a pistol into the Atlantic Ocean while off duty.

Nicki Minaj’s mother is now suing the Long Island man charged in the hit-and-run that resulted in the death of the rapper’s father.

The white headmaster at a Catholic school on Long Island was placed on temporary leave after reportedly telling a Black student to kneel and apologize to a teacher, the boy’s mother said.

Authorities in Nassau County have made an arrest in the hit-run death of rapper Nicki Minaj’s 64-year-old father, who was killed on Long Island less than a week ago, a police source with knowledge of the case told News 4 Wednesday. Robert Maraj was walking on a road in Mineola at 6:15 p.m. Friday when he was hit by a…

Police say the 64-year-old father of singer-rapper Nicki Minaj has died after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in New York.

The landscapes and picturesque colonial homes in East Hampton evoke affluence and a proud history that dates back before the country’s founding. But two friends from the area say there’s another, more sobering story.