Long Island

Eleanor Morris Lingo, 90, has visited the Old Burying Ground in Southold, Long Island, for the past six decades. As a young girl, she'd walk past the cemetery on her way to school, paying close attention to one stone.

At least nine states have reported bomb threats made within a few hours of each other at Jewish Community Centers Monday.

Two people are dead after a plane practicing takeoffs and landings crashed into some trees at a Suffolk County airport.

Michael Georgacopoulos and his father-in-law George Voicu have been bending staves since 2013, during a time when demands for barrels were overflowing because of the spike in craft distilling. Voicu, who is originally from Romania, is the owner and master cooper of East Coast Wood Barrels in Medford, Long Island.  It is the largest cooperage on the East Coast.

The New York LGBT Network is speaking out against President Donald Trump's decision to end federal protection for transgender students who under the Obama administration were allowed to use bathrooms of their chosen gender. Now it will be up to states and schools to decide. CEO David Kilmnick said they are standing up for children. He said that refusing to protect youth is "deplorable and...

Isaiah Bird, 9, of Long Island, knows he is an inspiration. He is one of the best wrestlers in his age group, is friendly with every competitor off the mat, and has achieved greatness despite having no legs.

Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid that is 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl. Carfentanil is typically used as a tranquilizing agent for elephants and other large animals. But the DEA says carfentanil is behind an increase in fatal overdoses in the Midwest. Dealers cut the drug into heroin to boost profits.

To prohibit or not to prohibit; that was the question before the Long Beach City Council Tuesday. A handful of businesses along the boardwalk that lease the land from the city want to add alcohol to the menu. But the plan is a no-go. The council voted it down.

Mindy and Josh Schreiber moved into their new home in Seaford, New York, on Saturday. Like many homeowners, they too say they will deduct the interest paid on their home loans from their income taxes. But removing the deduction is one of the things U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is considering.

Mitsue Salador was an 18-year-old freshman studying nursing at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an Executive Order forcing more than 100,000 Japanese Americans, many of them U.S. citizens, into internment camps.

ROCKY POINT, N.Y. (AP) - Police on Long Island are investigating a crash that killed a 73-year-old woman and injured her husband.

At Hofstra University Law School in Hempstead, Long Island, you'll find attorney Marc Ross teaching the Business and Law of Marijuana.

Rechilda Ichmat was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. She was biopsied three times and has very dense breast tissue, a problem 50 percent of all women have. But a relatively new way to screen known as molecular breast imaging, or MBI, helped doctors at Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre, New York, pinpoint the cancer. They sent her to a hospital in Connecticut because New York...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation collected 660 pounds of pharmaceutical medications during the third DEC Long Island Pharmaceutical Take Back. 

The National Weather Service has issued a High Wind Warning from 1 pm- 6pm Monday. Gusts of up to 60 mph are possible. Winds at these speeds can cause power outages and turn unsecured items into projectiles.

Thousands of flights canceled at NYC-area airports