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Mourners packed a Long Island church Friday and spoke of bravery, and forgiveness, at the funeral of an ATF agent killed by friendly fire while trying to stop a robbery.
A New York congressman wants to take the "For Sale" sign off Plum Island.
Thousands of police officers from New York City and beyond paid tribute Monday to a patrolman shot to death during a botched robbery in Brooklyn, recalling the 22-year veteran as both a dedicated lawman and devoted father of four daughters.
Theodore Roosevelt had a lot of stuff.
A man who executed four people inside a quiet New York pharmacy during a drug robbery was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole. His wife, who drove the getaway car, received 25 years.
A New York group calling itself the first Parent-Teacher Association unit in the country dedicated to the needs of gay and lesbian youths is under fire from the president of the state PTA, who says permission was never granted to use the trademarked organization's moniker.
After her son, Alexander, was killed along with 269 others in the 1988 Libyan bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, artist Suse Lowenstein spent the next 15 years capturing the anguish of women whose relatives died in the terrorist attack.
A security firm run by the former director of the FBI has been retained to review security — and will recommend changes — on standardized testing procedures following an SAT cheating scandal on New York's Long Island, officials with the nonprofit organizations behind the tests said Tuesday.
A New York businessman called a "mini-Madoff" because he was arrested weeks after the billion-dollar swindler was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison and ordered to pay $179 million in restitution — money he doesn't have.
A sealed device used to check whether radiation detectors are working properly at Brookhaven National Laboratory leaked a small amount of radioactivity last month, lab authorities said. There was no threat to public health or the environment, but the lab has halted some operations while it investigates.
A New York congressman says federal and local law enforcement authorities became aware of an al-Qaida propagandist killed last week in Yemen when he contacted other suspected terrorists on Long Island in recent years.
An investigation into 10 bodies strewn along a remote New York beach parkway grew more perplexing Tuesday when police announced that DNA testing had determined that two victims found miles apart were related and that the remains of another unidentified woman matched body parts found 15 years ago.
A recently formed organization that contends there is a nationwide backlog of untested rape kits told The Associated Press on Monday that it was teaming with a New York university to try to figure out how many are sitting on police department shelves as a first step in clearing the logjam.
Library assistant Gilda Ramos says she was stunned the first time Hispanics in her English language class told her that many had been victims of attacks and robberies by marauding gangs of teenagers. "Walking ATMs," is how she describes the workers, who often were robbed on Friday or Saturday night after getting paid from jobs such as dishwashing, construction or landscaping.
A New York man pleaded guilty Thursday to killing four people during a pharmacy robbery for prescription painkillers and his wife, who drove the getaway car, pleaded guilty to robbery.
A New York couple charged in a prescription drug robbery that left four people dead are expected to plead guilty to all charges, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
A jail guard who shot and killed her ex-girlfriend and an uncle, wounded her grandfather and kidnapped a niece pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder and other charges.
As he drove home to the suburbs three days after terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, and only hours after he was photographed standing alongside President George W. Bush atop a demolished fire truck at ground zero, retired firefighter Bob Beckwith had not realized he had become part of history.
The world's greatest professional surfers are coming to Long Beach. No, not California.
Authorities say two chemical cleaning agents were inadvertently mixed at a New York cellphone business, sickening more than four dozen workers.
He knew the words to many an Irish ballad, raised 14 children in his Brooklyn home and considered Frank Sinatra a friend.
Anthony Yacapino was sitting at home, watching a Bugs Bunny cartoon in 2004 when he felt the first signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. "My heart felt like it was leaping out of my chest. I thought I was dying. It was seriously scary," he recalls.
The owner of the New York Islanders says he's "not giving up on Long Island" after voters rejected a plan to borrow $400 million for a new hockey arena.
Residents who pay some of the highest property taxes in America are being asked to approve a plan to borrow $400 million to construct a new hockey arena and minor league ballpark.
A Long Island woman charged with manslaughter in the death of her 8-year-old disabled daughter fed the girl food she was allergic to and then tried to kill herself after leaving a note that said her daughter "should die," authorities said.
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