Nassau County News

ALBANY - Bugs in new voting machines, difficulties getting storage space funding and general anxiety about changing a system that's been around more than a century are problems counties face as the state ...

Ten of the 81 drunken driving suspects arrested in Nassau on Memorial Day weekend in the first phase of County Executive Thomas Suozzi's so-called "Wall of Shame" initiative have already pleaded guilty, Nassau ...

Police say a teenage driver has collided with a motorcycle on Long Island, killing his mother and critically injuring two people on the motorcycle.

David Mack may be running out of perks. After agreeing to give up some of his privileges as a Metropolitan Transit Authority board member, the Kings Point real estate executive has turned in his honorary State ...

Two men are in custody after one of them fired at an off-duty police officer in Jamaica on Sunday morning and then fled to a Nassau County hospital for treatment.

Prosecutors have filed additional charges against a Long Island teenager who held a party where a high school senior died of a suspected drug overdose.

An island getaway to Nassau can be closer than you think this summer. Nassau County is the gateway to Long Island, and some New Yorkers heading east to the Hamptons might think of it as being in the way of ...

Jose Machicado was not one to arrive home late without calling first. A custodian at Long Island University's C.W. Post Campus, Machicado was supposed to get off work at 3 p.m. Saturday, but by 6:30 p.m. his ...

Angry residents of the Baldwin area stormed out of a meeting of the Nassau County Planning Commission Thursday night after the commission approved a plan that could lead to the lease of 35 acres of county land ...

More than four decades after New York state's first female police officer was killed in the line of duty, a bridge overpass near where she died is being renamed in her honor.

Drug counselors and narcotics detectives liken the effort to combat heroin and save an addicted child to a maze, a nightmare, a 15-round heavyweight fight.

A Massapequa teenager used heroin before she mysteriously died at a house party last month, law enforcement officials announced Wednesday morning.

New flood maps for Nassau County could force thousands of previously exempt South Shore property owners to buy flood insurance and, in some cases, adhere to more rigorous building standards.

A teenager who police said crashed a crowded graduation barbecue and shot into a group of people outside an Elmont home, wounding four, pleaded not guilty to assault charges yesterday.

A 77-year-old Levittown man accidentally shot off the tip of his index finger at Nassau County Police Department in Mineola on Tuesday, police said.

Nassau County police are investigating a molotov cocktail attack on a Lynbrook home.

A New Hyde Park woman outsmarted a police impersonator who pulled her over in East Garden City when she demanded to see his badge and then stated she'd be calling 911 -- apparently scaring him off, Nassau ...

A nanny died Thursday as she tried to rescue a 3-year-old boy from a family's swimming pool, police said.

A Long Island man accused of stabbing a man sitting in a car at a gas station surrendered to police.

Nassau County, N.Y., police said an elderly man shot himself in the finger during an annual inspection at the pistol license unit of police headquarters.