NEW YORK – Two women were bitten by dogs that got loose on Long Island Monday morning, and one attacked an officer who had come to the rescue, police said. Several people in Wyandach called 911 to report the loose dogs before 7 a.m., which is when the first woman was attacked. The 24-year-old victim … Read more
More than doubled cremations, quintupled burials, Green-Wood, New York’s largest cemetery, has reached the limit of its capacity with the influx of deaths due to the coronavirus. • Read also: LIVE | The latest developments on the coronavirus • Read also: Confinement: worrying drop in reports of domestic violence • Read also: The postilion, the … Read more
NEW YORK – An explosion rocked a Long Island neighborhood shortly after midnight, injuring at least one person and causing a fire that spread to nearby buildings. Multiple firefighting units rushed to the scene on Guy Lombardo Avenue near West Merrick Road in Freeport on Friday to douse the flames that erupted after an explosion … Read more
NEW YORK – Two families mourn after a newlywed New York couple drowned during their honeymoon in the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos. The tragedy in paradise took place just four days after Mohammad Malik and Noor Shah were married in a traditional Pakistani wedding in an East Meadow wedding hall on Long Island, … Read more
NEW YORK – Authorities suspended a search Sunday for a crew member of a commercial fishing boat that sailed off eastern Long Island. The fishing vessel Hope and Sydney issued a distress call at 11:20 p.m. Saturday where they reported that 32-year-old crew member Carl Whitney had gone missing about 18 miles south of Montauk … Read more
NEW YORK – A member of the MS-13 gang was extradited from El Salvador to the United States for allegedly being one of those responsible for the gruesome murder of a 15-year-old teenager on Long Island. The extradition comes four years after the murder, prosecutors said Friday. Eduardo Portillo, 23, a former resident of Central … Read more
NEW YORK – A wedding of dozens at a Long Island club left dozens of its attendees with coronavirus, Suffolk County health officials announced Wednesday. The first event, which occurred on October 17 at the North Fork Country Club, a wedding had a total attendance of 91 people, well above the 50 people allowed at … Read more
NEW YORK – Police are looking for a man who they say accosted a woman on a Long Island hiking trail earlier this week, covered his mouth with his hand, and made sexual comments to her before her screams. made him escape, authorities say. The woman was walking down the Greenway Trail, about a quarter … Read more
The tri-state area will soon be hit by cold temperatures and the first snowflakes of the season in the northern regions, which can be dangerous especially for the elderly, homeless and families without heating in their homes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that, on average, at least 1,000 people die each … Read more
NEW YORK – The DEA announced Wednesday the conviction of more than a dozen suspected gang members who operated a heroin drug ring on Long Island. Through an investigation that began in 2019 into several gang members, associated primarily in Brookhaven, the Drug Enforcement Administration revealed that the investigation revealed that the defendants were allegedly … Read more