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Bellport officials said they plan to return an $87,000 payloader that crews are afraid to use after it overturned.

Six knifepoint robberies in the past four weeks -- including a Tuesday heist at a Medford Dollar Tree -- may be the work of the same woman, Suffolk police said.

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Candidates for Nassau County executive said Tuesday night that they would reopen closed police precincts and push for more sales tax revenue to flow to villages if elected.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano's proposed 2018 budget has nearly $128 million in projected risk, including $60 million in fee hikes that will likely be rejected by the GOP-controlled Legislature, according to a new report by a state monitoring board controlling the county's finances.

Suffolk sheriff candidates Larry Zacarese and Errol Toulon Jr. extolled their own experience for the $194,243-a-year job while criticizing each other's qualifications in a News 12 Long Island debate.

The proposal to move public safety officers to Nassau County to save the town $1.3 million would require multiple approvals by town, county and state governments, as well as town and county unions.

School-bus companies based in Suffolk County received tickets for driving through red lights nearly 1,200 times over three years, according to a state investigation.

The ball exploded into the pins for the third and final strike of the 10th frame Monday night and East Patchogue's Joe Novara had accomplished the ultimate bowling feat: a perfect 900 series.

The Islanders' newest acquisition is about 4 feet tall and weighs less than 100 pounds, but captain John Tavares called him the toughest player on the ice after practice.

The recently identified remains of a former Valley Stream resident who perished nearly 75 years ago during an intense World War II battle on a Pacific island are to be buried with military honors Wednesday at Arlington National Cemetery.

Democratic Suffolk district attorney candidate Timothy Sini said Tuesday that if elected he would not pay staff bonuses from a seized property fund while Republican Ray Perini said he would have to study the issue further.

People with autism and other special needs can again find work at a Fort Salonga restaurant that has reopened and is providing jobs -- including to the owner's son and daughter -- in hopes that the effort, along with Caribbean-inspired food, will draw customers.

AriZona Iced Tea co-founder Domenick "Don" Vultaggio, with an estimated net worth of $3 billion, ranked No. 264 overall and seventh among Long Islanders. In 2015, Vultaggio, of Sands Point, bought out the other co-founder of AriZona after a bitter court case.

Islip Town Board officials have approved plans for an affordable housing complex in Bay Shore aimed at senior citizens who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender and their allies.

The median price in Nassau for a closed home sale was $511,000 in September, up 9.9 percent from a year earlier, the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island reported Tuesday. In Suffolk, homes sold for a median price of $360,000, a 3.2 percent increase from the previous September.

A woman who was killed in a house fire in Bay Shore over the weekend has been identified as Barbara Nadraus, 66, authorities said Tuesday.

A missing Stony Brook man with dementia has been located, police said.

The state parole board has for the seventh time denied release to Matthew Solomon, who is serving 18 years to life in prison for strangling his newlywed wife on Christmas Eve in 1987 and dumping her body in a garbage bag near their apartment in Huntington Station.

Finally, Kevin James is offering "Kevin Can Wait" fans a reason behind the show's shocking decision to kill off his on-screen wife Donna Gable, played by Erinn Hayes.