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The workweek looks to feature sunny skies and seasonable temperatures before what is looking like a wet Christmas, according to the National Weather Service.

The selection of two dozen projects reflects Supervisor Edward Wehrheim's focus on the town's sprawling parks system and includes a $900,000 renovation of the Hoyt Farm Nature Preserve. 

Work has begun to connect parts of the school district to the Southwest Sewer District and end the use of failing cesspools that were once described by a school official as a "ticking time bomb."

The driver was on Martha Avenue when he suffered a medical emergency and lost control of his Jeep Patriot, which veered off the roadway into a wooded area and flipped, Suffolk police said. 

The National Weather Service said there is 30% chance of rain Sunday before 7 a.m. before skies gradually clear. The temperature is expected to fall to around 37 degrees by 5 p.m.

Scrap iron, steel and construction debris are the major items hauled off the Island, while flour, tomato paste and rice are among the top commodities coming in by rail.

State legislators expressed concern that some of the changes could have restricted public access to records.

The funding will go toward mobile food distribution, mental health counseling, and to help families struggling through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Police in Nassau and Suffolk have formed partnerships with advocates and are enforcing a New York law requiring police to make arrests after most domestic violence reports.

The idyllic vision of keeping a backyard homestead sometimes does not mirror the reality of densely populated Long Island life — especially when neighbors, or owners, begin squawking along with the roosters, who are often misidentified at birth as female chicks.

A West Babylon man was critically injured when he was ejected from his motorcycle in a crash Friday evening in North Lindenhurst, police said.

The first construction contract will be for dredging the Fire Island Inlet and placing sand near Gilgo Beach in Babylon Town and Robert Moses State Park on Fire Island, work that is to begin in late December and wrap up in the spring. 

The sole passenger in a car that crashed into a Flanders home occupied by four people not long before dawn Friday was ejected — and later pronounced dead at a hospital, Southampton police said.

After a warm, sunny Friday that felt like early fall, Saturday will feel much more like what the calendar says it is: very late fall.

A Brentwood street was dedicated in honor of Suffolk County sheriff's Investigator Sgt. Keith Allison, who died last year after contracting COVID-19.

The CDC recommendation that coronavirus-exposed kids can stay in school if tested got mixed reactions on Long Island, where the region's positivity rate hit 8% in the latest figures.

Police on Long Island and across the country were responding to a threat made on TikTok, with officers visiting schools as an extra precaution.

Laundrie's parents have petitioned the court for access to Laundrie's approximately $20,000 in Bank of America checking and savings accounts in probate court.

The town board voted 6-0 against retail sales and onsite facilties for consumption and also passed a resolution banning the smoking or vaping of tobacco and cannabis on town property, including the dock, beaches and parks.  

Nassau and Suffolk counties rank 14th among the 100 largest U.S. metro areas in job shortfall, according to research by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.