Suffolk County News

A man shot his ex-girlfriend to death at her office Friday and wounded a supervisor who came to her aid, then killed himself, police said.

Authorities say a man shot his ex-girlfriend to death in her Long Island office before turning the gun on himself.

Ylik Mathews, left, was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals. Circles, right, briefly stopped laying eggs after the assault.

A Medford teen was killed and his friend remained in grave condition Tuesday after a head-on collision police said was likely caused by excessive speed.

When Suffolk County passed a law requiring licensed contractors to prove their workers are in the U.S. legally, the county at the far end of Long Island suddenly had something in common with such states as Oklahoma and Arizona.

What they share is a determination to respond to the federal government's failure to enact immigration reform.

Advocates on both sides of the immigration issue acknowledge a sharp spike in measures proposed by states, counties and cities to deal with illegal immigration.

A Long Island woman has been charged with endangering the welfare of her four children after a neighbor called 911 to report that the kids were living in filth.

Suffolk County police say they arrived at the home in Lake Grove Wednesday night and found that the home was infested with bugs and filled with garbage.

Police say the basement was flooded, the smell was revolting and the children had not been fed for a week. They are aged 2, 9, 12 and 15.

Police found the mother, Denise Schnell, at her workplace. She will be arraigned Thursday on four counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

HAUPPAUGE Suffolk County Health Commissioner Humayun Chaudhry Wednesday said the New York State Department of Health confirmed that a crow collected on July 8th in Commack tested positive for West Nile virus.

The cover of the July 21 issue of the New Yorker, by artist Barry Blitt, shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim and his wife as a terrorist.

Suffolk County police said Tuesday they are investigating a crash that killed a Medford teen and left a man in critical condition.

Police say they have arrested a Long Island man and charged him with supplying alcohol to teenagers.

MEDFORD Suffolk County Police are investigating a motorcycle crash that claimed the life of a Medford man Sunday morning.

An early morning accident in Selden claimed the life of a teen and injured four others.

The New York State Department of Health has notified Suffolk County that a mosquito sample has tested positive for West Nile virus.

A New Jersey woman has been arrested for prostitution after police say she used the Web site Craigslist to find clients.

WHITE PLAINS - The Westchester County Board of Legislators is expected tonight to schedule a public hearing on a revised version of the county's controversial proposal for a social host law.

Police on Long Island say a woman has died in a bizarre accident when an unoccupied Jeep with the motor running pinned her against the wall of her garage.

An outdoor basketball player who ran into a Long Island street to retrieve a ball has been run over by a car and seriously injured.

Suffolk County police say 25-year-old William Gilbert was playing hoops outside his Deer Park home Tuesday afternoon when the ball got away from him and he chased it.

Gilbert was hit by a car driven by a North Carolina man who was in the neighborhood visiting relatives. He's been taken to a hospital and treated for head trauma and multiple scrapes and cuts.

Authorities say they are investigating whether inflammatory language found on a wall of a Long Island strip mall was directed at Hispanics.

One person is dead and four others, all believed to be teenagers, have been transported to Stony Brook University Hospital, following a horrific crash that closed Mooney Pond Road in Selden for hours Tuesday.

Jaquan Jones, 18, was shot and killed outside a friend's home in Wyandanch. Less than a day after a 48-year-old man was shot to death and two party guests were injured in a Wyandanch backyard, a recent ...