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When it opens Feb. 5, the library's history room will offer programs, audio recordings, photographic collections and video clips on Long Beach history. The idea for the exhibit comes from an exhibit last summer that showcased the life of Long Beach resident and former Assemb. Harvey Weisenberg.

Melville-based H2M architects + engineers was retained to identify restrictions that may cause flooding in the vicinity of Warwick, Plymouth and Chadwick roads.

The ice cream and fast food eatery is coming to Shirley, with its opening expected in June. More are planned for Long Island.

Patricia O'Hara taught for 37 years, including 23 at the Birch School in Merrick. She incorporated her passion for music and Japanese culture to broaden her students' experience.

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Over two days and 700 miles, the convoy will travel from a place where property taxes fund multimillion-dollar fire district budgets to one where some volunteer departments scrape by.

A scientist at heart, renowned fossil finder and Stony Brook professor Richard Leakey also was a prodigious fundraiser, a mesmerizing lecturer, a fine chef, winemaker and host, according to friends and colleagues.

The retirement of the liberal Supreme Court justice gives President Joe Biden an opening he has pledged to fill by naming the first Black woman to the high court.

The Federal Reserve signaled that it plans to begin raising its benchmark interest rate as soon as March, a key step in reversing its pandemic-era low-rate policies that have fueled hiring and growth but also escalated inflation.

Wednesday's answer to Russia makes very clear that the U.S. is standing by its principles, the secretary of state said. "There is no change, there will be no change."

One body was recovered and crews were still searching Wednesday for 38 other people missing in the ocean off Florida days after their boat left the Bahamas in a suspected human smuggling attempt, the U.S. Coast Guard said.