West Islip

Firefighting was in Jeffrey Kempf Sr.'s blood, his son said. "If you didn't join, you weren't part of the cult of the family."

While Turkish food on LI is remarkably consistent, the trade off is often atmosphere. But not here.

The Town of Babylon is getting creative with its trash and hoping to save $1.3 million in the process.

School districts are reaching out to families now that New York State has removed religious exemptions from vaccinations.

Annmarie Christina, 38, was a strong, quick-witted woman and a stay-at-home mom who deeply loved her son Aidan, 11, and daughter Alexa, 7, relatives said.

The detective's older brother said he was touched that the community chose to honor Peter Figoski some eight years after he was slain.

Students in most of the Island's 124 public school districts will begin class Sept. 3 or 4. Check out Newsday's chart of start dates.

The man, gone for nearly three weeks, was found in his SUV crashed in a roadside ravine by a curious friend of a friend who had embarked on his own search.

They were fatally shot on a West Babylon street. Police now say they were targeted and may have been involved in an altercation at a gas station.

Her husband found her, Suffolk police said, and she was treated at a hospital for a non-life-threatening leg injury.