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The two major political parties split the spoils last night, with Republicans maintaining a Town Board seat in Brookhaven and Democrats winning a board seat in Southampton, according to election results.

The two major political parties split the spoils last night, with Republicans maintaining a Town Board seat in Brookhaven and Democrats winning a board seat in Southampton, according to election results.

Former Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi made his debut as a national television pundit Tuesday night, trading verbal jabs with a panel on Fox News host Sean Hannity's show "Hannity."

The Roosevelt school district is on track to end its fiscal year with a surplus of about $993,000 instead of the $2.5-million operating deficit the district planned in its budget, according to a review released Tuesday by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

New York anglers will get to fish for fluke longer this year, as state regulators propose an extension over last year's clipped season, while commercial fishermen could see a slight increase in their total allowable catch.

The company working on the gymnasium floor of the West Babylon elementary school destroyed by fire last month has been identified in public records as Milburn Flooring Mills of Copiague.

Over intense objections from property and business owners, the Hempstead Town Board Tuesday adopted an urban renewal plan for Elmont that would uproot 23 businesses and force their landowners to sell to a developer who would build a supermarket.

Over intense objections from property and business owners, the Hempstead Town Board Tuesday adopted an urban renewal plan for Elmont that would uproot 23 businesses and force their landowners to sell to a developer who would build a supermarket.

QUEENS/Owners of Bell shooting site charged in fraud case

Construction workers rallied Tuesday at Ground Zero to demand authorities speed up the rebuilding effort, saying restarting work at the stalled site would put many back on the job.

His name is John P. Coffey Jr., but since he was a child in Hempstead - the oldest of seven children of an immigrant Irish couple - he has answered to Sean.

The state is taking away disability passes from thousands of people who got free park admissions and rounds of golf even though some were apparently healthy.

The state is taking away disability passes from thousands of people who got free park admissions and rounds of golf even though some were apparently healthy.

High school graduation rates continue inching up on Long Island and across the state, with greater-than-average gains for both black and Hispanic teens.

David Brooks' former chief financial officer said Tuesday that he had his company secretly pay tens of thousands of dollars for prostitutes for himself and "a variety of people," including several company board members, some employees and several stock brokers who dealt in the business' stock.

Emilio Moschella, a World War II U.S. Navy veteran and a retired Newsday electrician, died Monday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Elmhurst, Queens. He was 83.

Thirty-two students from Huntington High School became Washington VIPs this week, complete with a behind-the-scenes tour of a Smithsonian exhibit and a private meeting with first lady Michelle Obama.

A Nassau County woman who says she suffered serious injuries because her Toyota Prius refused to stop last year on the Wantagh Parkway is among a growing number suing the carmaker in connection with alleged incidents of "unintended acceleration."

With fist pumps and shouts of "Yes!" the family and friends of Nesconset real estate attorney James DiMartino erupted in applause in a Riverhead courtroom Tuesday as a jury convicted Ronald Thornton of hiring three people to kill his friend and business partner.