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A Hamptons high school was evacuated Friday after administrators received a series of bomb threats — and a 15-year-old student is now facing criminal charges. Students at Westhampton Beach High School and Middle School were moved to a location off-campus following the threatening calls, Newsday reported. Westhampton Beach Village cops are not releasing the student’s […]
It’s NOT just like mom used to make. A crew of Long Island eighth grade boys beat out 260 entries to earn the title of best mac’n’cheese recipe in the state — with ingredients like sweet corn, Muenster cheese and garlic toast breadcrumbs. Eleven Southampton Intermediate School kids in the last-period cooking club also used […]
A Long Island postal worker helped an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detainee temporarily escape custody outside and tore into agents in two languages, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday. Tamara Mayorga-Won, 57, allegedly opened the door of an official vehicle in front of the Westhampton Post Office and told a handcuffed detainee in the […]
A 77-year-old man was killed trying to cross a busy Long Island highway when he was struck by two cars coming from opposite directions in under a minute, according to police. Kenneth Cook was walking across a stretch of Montauk Highway in Lindenhurst just after 7:30 p.m. Monday when he was hit by two SUVs […]
More than 60 Long Island schools had drinking water with lead levels that blew past new state maximums, according to newly released data from the Department of Health. Over 40 Suffolk County school districts and more than 20 Nassau districts had test results from faucets or water fountains that showed lead levels exceeded 5 parts […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed another bill that would have recognized the sovereignty of a Long Island Native American group — riling tribal leaders who said the Democrat “just doesn’t get it.” Hochul’s move to block the Montaukett Indian Nation from getting official status is the fourth time in a row she has shot down efforts […]
If you thought Westchester was the most expensive place to live in New York state, think again. A new study has listed the Empire State suburbs with the highest cost of living for essentials — and 15 of the top 20 are on Long Island. GOBankingRates determined the priciest places by analyzing the monthly cost […]
Matthew Schaefer has ice in his veins. The 18-year-old hockey phenom is doing everything right in his early days with the New York Islanders, with the first overall draft pick coolly thriving on and off the rink a month into his rookie season on Long Island. “I visited New York City once a couple of […]
He’s on a new mission. A Long Island veteran who fought in Vietnam has found a passion for painting to fight his own battles with PTSD — and is now teaching the artform to help heal other soldiers struggling with the affliction. “I wasn’t only getting nightmares. I was getting daymares,” 78-year-old John Melillo, a […]
Police on Long Island continue to search the waters near Shinnecock Bay for a pair of kayakers who disappeared Saturday evening after sending a selfie to a friend, police said. Southampton police said Shane Garcia, 27, and his 25-year-old pal, Aaron Montemarano, set out on a lime-green two-man ocean kayak near the Ponquogue Bridge and […]
He’s got wings. A Long Island escape room owner and fitness buff set a stunning record by running from Buffalo to the Brooklyn Bridge in 8 days and 13 hours, shattering a previous record for the 572.55-mile journey by nearly a day. “It just takes a couple of steps and a whole lot of time […]
Southampton’s local weed laws just went up in smoke as state cannabis officials blasted the town’s overly stringent rules as illegal and designed to intentionally block legal dispensaries from ever opening. The unanimous decision by the state’s Cannabis Control Board on Monday effectively torched Southampton’s local permitting scheme — a system that state-licensed cannabis business […]
The free ride is over. A state program that allowed drivers of electric vehicles and hybrid cars to ride solo on the HOV lanes of the Long Island Expressway has come to a screeching halt — leaving EV drivers to fend for themselves. The federally mandated Clean Pass program expired on Wednesday, which means the […]
A vein treatment at clinic owned by a celebrity surgeon has left a Long Island Councilwoman in crippling agony, after she was given a procedure she never agreed to that was painfully botched, a new lawsuit claims. Oyster Bay Town Councilwoman Vicki Walsh claims a doctor employed by TV medical pro Dr. David Greuner — […]
A tough Long Island business owner drove one of his trucks — while it was on fire — to save it from the wildfires that raged through the Hamptons over the weekend. Mark Cirillo, 64, battled to save AutoGate Systems Inc., his business of the last 20 years, as flames closed in on his shop […]