Newsday Long Island

The two major political parties split the spoils last night, with Republicans maintaining a Town Board seat in Brookhaven and Democrats winning a board seat in Southampton, according to election results.

Former Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi made his debut as a national television pundit Tuesday night, trading verbal jabs with a panel on Fox News host Sean Hannity's show "Hannity."

High school graduation rates continue inching up on Long Island and across the state, with greater-than-average gains for both black and Hispanic teens.

Firefighters found the body of a person burned beyond recognition Tuesday after they extinguished a blaze inside a car parked at a Mastic Beach home, Suffolk police said.

Golf course groundskeepers. A clerical worker. Computer programmers.

Thirty-two students from Huntington High School became Washington VIPs this week, complete with a behind-the-scenes tour of a Smithsonian exhibit and a private meeting with first lady Michelle Obama.

With fist pumps and shouts of "Yes!" the family and friends of Nesconset real estate attorney James DiMartino erupted in applause in a Riverhead courtroom Tuesday as a jury convicted Ronald Thornton of hiring three people to kill his friend and business partner.

Police arrested five people in connection with the Monday lunchtime melee that injured eight students at Hempstead High School, officials said Tuesday.

Hempstead fire chief Michael Charles and a armed man were charged with menacing after another man was held at gunpoint in Hempstead, police said.

Even as the Garden City mother of four put a $500 deposit on her husband's murder, she mused to the would-be hit man about what expression she should wear on her face when police came to tell her the tragic news, a prosecutor said in court Tuesday.

Town officials increasingly are using the power of eminent domain to seize private properties from homeowners and small business owners.

For Democratic Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy to be sworn in as governor next January, he'd need to travel a treacherous - many say impossible - path into November.

Attorneys for both the Garden City woman who police said tried to hire a hit man to kill her husband, and the man police said she wanted dead, confirmed that a Nassau court has granted custody of the couple's children to their father.

Officials are announcing a $1,000 reward for its return.

Web surfers in Nassau County clock the fastest Internet speeds in the nation, according to a list released by a data and analytics company.

Eight Hempstead High School students were injured in a melee at the school Monday that prompted district officials to dismiss the entire student body of more than 1,400 early, local leaders said.

Long Island Rail Road service between Jamaica and Hicksville was suspended Monday afternoon after a person was hit by a train, according to Nassau County police. It was later reopened with delays of up to 90 minutes at one point in some branches.

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Police are investigating an apparent hit-and-run accident in Bay Shore after a 55-year-old man was found dead alongside the road on Spence Street.

Suffolk police said they are asking the public for help in finding two men who shot and killed a 23-year-old Wyandanch man Sunday night as he and a friend came home from a convenience store.