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The podiatrist, Mark Gresser, is charged with forcibly touching a patient at his Muttontown office, police say.

The Bay Shore store is among 13 closings announced; Long Island's only remaining J.C. Penney will be at Roosevelt Field mall.

The recommendation is a step forward toward subdividing property in Smithtown for a planned hotel, assisted living facility and offices.

A community group is raising funds to build a center near Conscience Point commemorating the site's wooden boat building and nautical history.

The crowd of 400 to 500 — few wearing face masks or practicing social distancing — lined Route 347 near Route 112, where a Black Lives Matter protest was held three weeks earlier. 

Two men and a woman entered Light House Pharmacy and one of the men displayed a handgun as they stole cash and prescription medications, police said. 

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New York has the lowest coronavirus transmission rate in the country, says Gov. Cuomo, but the virus is still spreading in other states, including Florida and Texas.

Evidence recovered at the scene and the victim's home, including a letter left for his family offering a reason for his actions, indicates the cause of death was suicide, Suffolk police said.

Two of the five top prize tickets for the Take 5 drawing were sold at a gas station on Montauk Highway in Amityville, the other in Riverhead, officials said.

In-person voting will be from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday at a smaller number of polling sites than usual.

A man was struck by an eastbound train at the Lowell Avenue grade crossing near the Central Islip station, the LIRR said.

Police said the man was driving "at a high rate of speed" when he swerved to avoid another vehicle, crashed into a pole and the two pedestrians.

My Local Pickup aims to make the curbside process more efficient for businesses and consumers, developers say. 

The single-vehicle crash closed a section of Montauk Highway in West Babylon, Suffolk County police said.

It's a Hollywood story that could only happen in the pandemic, and the result of a loophole in the complicated system of movie-ticket sales. Still, it worked.

The marchers wound their way through the commercial districts and quiet residential streets of Freeport and Roosevelt, with onlookers gathered on porches to cheer or raise their fists in support.

Turnout and the vote-counting system will be tested by the coronavirus pandemic.

Town officials are encouraging restaurant-goers to order takeout and bring their food to eat at local parks, where town staff have set up tables with benches.

The Crippen House was the property of Peter Crippen, a former slave and founder of Bethel AME Church, but the structure is too dilapidated to save.