Dry, cool weather is expected today, but another storm could sweep in tomorrow and linger into Saturday, the National Weather Service said.

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A key COVID-19 indicator has dropped by half in the last several weeks on Long Island, with the seven-day average for positivity in testing for the virus falling from over 4% to nearly 2% in Nassau and Suffolk counties, according to state data.

Toulon, a Democrat, says a mailer by Sini, the Democratic Suffolk district attorney, could leave the false impression that Toulon has endorsed Sini for reelection.

School officials said there are "disturbing allegations" against an unnamed employee, who was placed on paid leave Monday.

At a candidates event, Manuel Esteban Sr., the GOP challenger to Suffolk Legis. Susan Berland (D-Dix Hills), referred to Berland, the legislature's only Jewish member, as "greedy."

Attorney Ronald Nir — who is representing Jagger Freeman — said the plea deal offered by Queens prosecutors in the death of NYPD Det. Brian Simonsen was unacceptable.

Top Democrats signaled a deal is within reach on President Joe Biden's big domestic bill but momentum fizzled and tempers flared late Wednesday as a paid family leave proposal fell out and a billionaires' tax appeared scrapped, mostly to satisfy a pivotal member of the 50-50 Senate.

A panel of U.S. health advisers endorsed kid-size doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, moving the U.S. closer to beginning vaccinations in children ages 5 to 11.

Tumbling COVID-19 case counts have some schools around the U.S. considering relaxing their mask rules, but deaths nationally have been ticking up over the past few weeks, some rural hospitals are showing signs of strain, and cold weather is setting in.

North Port police acknowledged in an interview with WINK-TV that they mistook Laundrie's mother for him while running surveillance on the now-deceased "person of interest" in the killing of Blue Point native Gabby Petito.