Chris D. Montpetit, 37, was sentenced following his guilty plea last May to charges that included driving drunk when he crashed into a disabled car, killing Erika Bautista, 31, and injuring her three daughters.  

When unemployment payments stopped, people dropped out of the work force instead of returning to low-paid service jobs, September data shows. 

Several local groups want to limit development along the 14.2-mile Sound Avenue and preserve its rural character. "What we're trying to do is not have this corridor look like the Long Island Expressway," says the president of the Northville Beach Civic Association.

LI Democrats also are spending more on TV and online ads; the Nassau GOP committee is putting more money into the DA race.

The police department had been without a contract since the previous one expired in December 2018. The new contract covers the period between Jan. 1, 2019, to May 31, 2024.

The girl and her mother, who was pushing her in a stroller, were struck by a Ford pickup in Patchogue Monday night, Suffolk police said.

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Hear what the candidates running for Nassau County district attorney had to say as they answered questions from Long Islanders during a Newsday Live virtual town hall event.

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.

The New York senator wrote to Senate leadership asking lawmakers to increase funding by at least $20 million, for a total of $67 million, in the fiscal 2022 spending bills for the Area Health Education Center program.

The judge's intervention followed a request from Christopher McPartland's lawyer, who said the Bureau of Prisons recently decided to assign McPartland to a low-security section of Beaumont (Texas) Federal Correctional Complex.