Small plane makes emergency landing on beach

Emergency personnel are responding to reports of a small plane landing at Sunken Meadow State Park. It is unclear if anyone has been injured.

Legislation would help veterans get PTSD treatment

Some military veterans can't get treatment for PTSD because their condition was diagnosed only after they were out of the service. Now some lawmakers want to change that with new legislation.

Long Island-Connecticut crossing?

Bridge or tunnel? It's been debated for decades and even fictionalized in the Netflix hit House of Cards. But now there is a renewed effort to get a link crossing the Long Island Sound.

From empty warehouse to brewery incubator

People who live in Copiague, Long Island, call a certain blighted warehouse an eyesore. It has been vacant for decades. Inside, it is littered with bottles and trash; the walls are sprayed with graffiti.

2 injured in small plane crash on LI

A small plane carrying a father and daughter returning from visiting a college in Rhode Island crash-landed in an industrial park on Saturday afternoon, but they suffered only minor injuries, fire officials said.  

NY high school student arrested with 90 heroin packets

Police say a teenager has been arrested after allegedly being found with 90 packets of heroin at a Long Island high school.  

Billy Joel band member inspires students

For Mike DelGuidice, a return to his alma mater, Long Island's Miller Place High School, is an opportunity to inspire the next generation of music enthusiasts. The musician has had an incredible ride, from leading the popular Billy Joel cover band Big Shot for years to finally joining the real Billy Joel band, regularly performing with the piano man himself in Madison Square Garden.

Loud booms shake houses on Long Island

People on Long Island were reporting hearing loud booms that shook their houses.  911 call centers reportedly got a lot of calls due to the incident.

Report: LIRR on-time performance worsens

New stats from the Long Island Rail Road show what many riders have been complaining about: trains are running later and later and some aren't running at all. An "expensive," "slow ride" that's "inconvenient" pretty much sums up the way Long Island Rail Road riders describe their commute.

Rapper accused of firing gun into air on Long Island

A rapper on a national tour is in trouble with cops on Long Island after allegedly firing a gun into the air during a fight outside a nightclub.

Inspirational jiu-jitsu blue belt with cerebral palsy, cancer dies at age 20

Ian Matuszak, an inspirational young man who touched the lives of so many people, passed away at the age of 20 earlier this week after a tough battle against an aggressive form of cancer.  Ian had also been suffering from cerebral palsy. 

Ex-Suffolk County chief James Burke pleads guilty

A former police chief of Suffolk County, Long Island has plead guilty to charges of violating a woman's civil rights and orchestrating a cover-up, FOX 5 NY has learned.

Nassau police: Mangano, consultant didn't sext

Nassau County police have found no evidence that County Executive Ed Mangano sexted with public relations consultant Karin Murphy Caro of BluChip Marketing.

Video released of Oheka Castle shooting

Suffolk County police are searching for new leads in the 2014 botched hit on the owner of Oheka Castle so they released surveillance video of the incident.

Wicked spring-like weather in winter

A nasty storm that brought heavy rain, fierce winds and lightning battered the Tristate region Wednesday night into Thursday morning. The Verizon building in Elmhurst, Queens lost a chunk of its facade. The weather is believed to have contributed to the partial collapse onto Broadway.

'Hot dog hooker' offers 'lunch and a lap dance'

A woman once dubbed the 'hot dog hooker' is back at it again... she now has a sign in her front yard offering topless lap dances on her swing.

Search continues for missing Queens man after small plane crash off LI

Fighting frigid water temperatures and racing against the clock, officers grabbed anything they could to try to rescue three men who were aboard a small plane that crash-landed in the Long Island Sound, less than a mile off the New York shoreline. The search continued Sunday for one person who was still missing.

Long Island's top official battles sexting accusations

The top official in one of America's largest suburban counties is embroiled in a sexting controversy.  

Zika virus testing on Long Island

If you've traveled to the Caribbean, Latin America or any other part of the world where the Zika virus is widespread you can now be tested for the virus for free.