Kyle Colthirst, 18, of Uniondale, and Tariq Pitaud, 18, of West Babylon, each face charges of second-degree murder, first-degree attempted robbery and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon after the shooting, police say.

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McCaffrey (R-Lindenhurst) on Jan. 3 became the first GOP leader of the Suffolk County Legislature in 17 years.

An unidentified individual posted anti-Black slurs in the Zoom comment section during a Dec. 20 meeting of the town's Anti-Bias Task Force, according to task force representatives.

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Long Island schools are keeping their fingers crossed, gamely planning a face-to-face semester, with guarded optimism that the COVID-19 surge will soon ebb.

The Riverhead Anti-Bias Task Force hosted "MLK Through Many Voices," a series of speeches from the late civil rights leader at the Riverhead Free Library.

Organizations across Long Island are offering opportunities for learning and service, including talks, films, music and crafts.

Authorities identified a 44-year-old British national as the man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue for 10 hours before an FBI SWAT team stormed the building.

Referencing the letter the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote from a Birmingham jail in 1963, Rep. James Clyburn said his fellow Democrats should be working to "protect the vote with everything that we have got."

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The Betty White Challenge, which has gone viral on social media, encourages people to donate to their local animal shelter or rescue in honor of what would have been White's 100th birthday on Monday.

Four hostages are safe and their captor is dead after an hourslong standoff that began when the man took over services at a Texas synagogue where he could be heard ranting on a livestream and demanding the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying to kill U.S. Army officers in Afghanistan.