Best photos from Newsday photographer James Carbone

Constituents of Republican Congressman George Santos traveled together by bus from New York on Feb. 7, 2023 with Courage for America and Concerned Citizens of NY-03 to demand Congress vote to expel Santos.

Canine Companions is training therapy dog Tillman to work with Melissa Grier, a Suffolk County DA prosecutor who works in the child abuse and domestic crimes bureau.

Accused Gilgo Beach killer Rex A. Heuermann appears before Judge Timothy P. Mazzei in Suffolk County Court on Tuesday, August 1, 2023.

Firefighters put out a large fire at a recycling plant in Medford Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. Suffolk police responded to the 2:57 p.m. blaze at a Peconic Avenue facility operated by Gershow Recycling.

President Joe Biden arrives at JFK Airport in Jamaica Queens, N.Y., on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023.

Junior Firefighters participate in camp training at the Fire Academy in old Bethpage on Thursday, July 28, 2022.

Congressman George Santos speaks during a press conference outside Federal Court in Central Islip after being arraigned on Wednesday, May 10, 2023.

Ariel Gutierrez of Forest Hills feeds his wife Holly a strawberry at the Mattituck Strawberry Festival on Sunday, June 18, 2023.

The remains of a whale on Lido Beach on Jan. 30, 2023.

A vehicle is removed from the water at the Mascot Dock in Patchogue after a 19-year-old female drove into the water on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. She was rescued by police officers and good samaritans.

President Joe Biden speaks at the West Side Rail Yard in Manhattan on Monday, Jan. 31, 2023.

Athletes participate in "The Murph Challenge" at the Michael P. Murphy Navy Seal Museum in Sayville on May 29, 2023.

Sunrise Highway at Connetquot Ave. in East Islip is flooded on Sunday morning, July 16, 2023.

Shaquilah Simmond of Elmont is comforted at the Breast Cancer walk at Jones Beach in Wantagh on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. Simmonds lost a close friend from breast cancer in March.

Firefighters battle a raging house fire at that broke out around 9:35 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023.