The driver, 57, died Friday morning after he drove into a Mack truck backing out of an alley in Lindenhurst, according to the Suffolk County Police Department.

MTA officials expressed concern that many LIRR commuters remain in the dark about upcoming changes in the cost of railroad tickets, including some changes that take effect Friday.

 Mayer's UBS Arena concert, originally scheduled for March 1, will now take place on May 7.

The owner of a gas station discovered the thefts after being notified by the State Lottery of a discrepancy in ticket sales, police said.

Here are three major myths and the facts about them, according to three of the top medical experts on LI who specialize in infectious disease and have years of training in the field.

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The robberies began, according to Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder, on Sept. 4 when a suspect walked in the Chase Bank on Old Country Road in Carle Place and after making a "verbal threat of shooting an employee" stole $3,700.

Russia on Friday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution telling Moscow to stop attacking Ukraine and withdraw all troops immediately.

An inflation gauge that is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve jumped 6.1% in January compared with a year ago, the latest evidence that Americans are enduring sharp price increases that will likely worsen after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

 The United States and European allies they were stepping up sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine by adding measures directly targeting President Vladimir Putin and his foreign minister, putting diplomatic appeals to one side as Russia's forces closed on Ukraine's capital.

President Joe Biden has nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation.