Suffolk County News

The move to consolidate Long Island's National Guard and Reserve units by next year will leave behind several empty buildings and result in fewer customers for some businesses, some local leaders said.

The National Guard is nearing completion of an $86-million facility in Farmingdale that by early next year will consolidate nearly all of Long Island's National Guard and Reserve units.

Former Hofstra players Miguel Maysonet and Brock Jackolski transitioning to new school well.

SBU, the lone FCS team left on Long Island, goes primetime this year with a game against Big East team

Michael Hervey, formerly senior vice president of operations, has been with LIPA 10 years.

Thirteen new cases of West Nile infection were confirmed in Nassau County Thursday and yet another in Suffolk, raising the number of people affected so far by virus-laden mosquitoes and raising new concerns about the impact the disease will have on the region this year.

The head of a Manorville horse rescue operation illegally euthanized three dogs at the farm, killing at least one in the presence of two children, Suffolk authorities said Thursday.

The family of a Valley Stream woman whose coffin was pulled from her cemetery mausoleum this week is offering a $30,000 reward for the return of her remains.

Suffolk County police are investigating an overnight motorcycle crash in that left a Bay Shore man dead Thursday.

A Wyandanch man was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with robbing eight taxicab drivers in Deer Park, Wyandanch and Brentwood in a spree dating back to February, police said.

A Manorville horse farm operator was arrested and charged with animal cruelty for euthanizing dogs improperly and without a veterinarian's license, and with endangering the welfare of children by destroying the animals in the presence of two minors, the Suffolk SPCA said.

A Wyandanch man was arrested and charged with attempted murder Wednesday by Suffolk police for the shooting of a Crips street gang member and another person earlier this month in Huntington Station, authorities said.

A veteran federal prosecutor, who figured in a number of high profile cases, has been named the chief federal prosecutor on Long Island.

Residents in the Huntington school district will vote on a referendum Tuesday to spend $2 million in capital reserve funds to build an addition to Woodhull Intermediate School.

Even as its budget for solar-system rebates runs dry, the Long Island Power Authority Wednesday kicked in a third of the cost for a solar array at a North Fork winery, the largest ground-mounted system on Long Island.

Rick Shalvoy rowed his boat ashore Wednesday on the 10th day of a storm-tossed quest to circle Long Island.

After two years at New York University, Kristin Green dropped out last year and told her parents her interests had changed.

With Huntington voters rejecting a referendum to spend the school district's entire $2 million capital reserve fund on an addition to Woodhull Intermediate School, attention has shifted to the district's long-range facilities planning committee - which is expected to present three options at the Sept. 13 school board meeting for reconfiguring schools in the space-starved district.

Long Island school districts, aided by a last-minute infusion of federal funds intended to help save teachers' jobs, will still find themselves at least $80 million short of last year's state aid figure - a big drop, but not nearly as large as originally feared.

Former Huntington Town Councilman Stuart Besen was arrested Sunday after police said he violated an order of protection against his wife.