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A man tried to grab a fifth-grader walking to school in Westbury on Wednesday morning, Nassau County police said in asking for the public's help to find him.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul launched the rehabilitation of the former Gallo duck farm in East Patchogue Wednesday with a public works bulldozer knocking over the first building by Mud Creek.

Nassau police said they arrested Carrié Solages, an Elmont Democrat, overnight. The arrest was in connection with a "domestic incident," according to sources.

Project Prom winner Felicity Joy Masone debuted the dress readers selected for her Wednesday afternoon at a pre-prom gathering at her Port Jefferson home -- and, safe to say, the late music legend Prince would have approved.

Green-energy advocates dominated public hearings Wednesday in support of a LIPA power plan calling for renewable energy to displace fossil fuel sources over the next two decades.

Green-energy advocates dominated public hearings Wednesday in support of a LIPA power plan calling for renewable energy to displace fossil fuel sources over the next two decades.

Jorge Tigre was looking forward to a big party to celebrate his graduation from Bellport High School Thursday night, and his mother, Bertha Ullaguari, was happy to oblige.

Long Island philanthropist Sandra Atlas Bass was honored on Northwell Health's Manhasset campus on Wednesday in a program highlighting decades of donations to the health care system, totaling more than $93 million.

Former State Sen. Jack Martins, the Republican candidate for Nassau County executive, endorsed a bill Wednesday introduced in the county legislature by minority Democrats to curtail the practice of appointing acting commissioners for indefinite periods of time.

Suffolk is taking the first step to create a countywide bicycle-sharing program that aims to get residents off four-wheeled vehicles and onto two-wheeled ones.

Less than a year after two women were strangled and bludgeoned more than two decades ago, Suffolk police identified one of their own as a possible suspect, a former homicide detective testified Wednesday in Riverhead.

With political corruption a top issue in this fall's election, Republican Nassau legislators on Wednesday unveiled a bill they said would give the county the "toughest ethics code in New York state."

Kim Kaiman, executive director of the North Hempstead Business and Development Corp., resigned from her position on Wednesday, officials said.

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Long Island officials are asking Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and state storm-recovery agencies to extend the deadline for residents affected by superstorm Sandy to submit applications to raise their homes or risk losing reimbursement money.

After some nice sunshine on the first day of summer, later Wednesday afternoon is bringing a 30 to 40 percent chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms, forecasters say.

"Crashing" came back to crash on Long Island. After filming the first-season finale at Sands Point Preserve last June, the HBO series, produced by Woodbury's own Judd Apatow, returned to Long Island to shoot an episode of the second season at the Marriott Hotel in Uniondale on Wednesday.

Film star George Clooney and his business partners, Hewlett native Rande Gerber and real estate developer Mike Meldman, have sold their Manhasset-based tequila company for a potential $1 billion.

A Middle Island woman has been charged in the thefts of jewelry from residents of a Lake Grove nursing home in May and June, Suffolk County police said.

ALBANY -- The state Assembly gave final passage Wednesday to a bill that would name part of a Long Island parkway after the late police Det. Steven McDonald, whose messages of forgiveness and perseverance became an inspiration to many.