Long Island attorney Robert Macedonio pleaded guilty to felony cocaine possession in 2008 and lost his law license. But three years later – under circumstances largely sealed from public view – the ...

Nassau County paid 14,750 employees or former employees a total of $1,041,862,380.73 in 2020, an increase of 3.6% from 2019, according to public payroll data obtained under the Freedom of Information ...

Nassau County paid 15,867 employees or former employees a total of $1,018,356,526.52 in 2018, a decrease of 2.4 percent from the year before. The number of people making $200,000 or more a year ...

Nearly 14,000 people lived on the sprawling grounds of Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in the Brentwood of the 1950s, an era when lobotomies and induced comas were viewed as acceptable treatments for ...

This map and the table below it show vaccination progress among Long Island communities based on data provided by New York State. The darker areas have higher percentages of fully vaccinated residents ...

The proposed addition of a third track to the Long Island Rail Road’s Main Line will not only aim to ease the commutes of a half-million LIRR customers, but will also mean a facelift for several ...

Public education employees statewide, excluding New York City, were paid $18.5 billion during the 2022-23 school year, according to data reported to the New York State Teachers Retirement System ...

The path to winning appointment to Long Island’s highly paid police forces has been more than three times tougher for Black would-be officers than for white applicants and twice as tough for Hispanic ...

There were 162,253 last names recorded 100 times or more by the U.S. Census Bureau during their latest count in 2010. You can search through this database to see if your name is among them. The Census ...

Grumman, the Bethpage aerospace giant, knew as far back as the mid-1970s that its toxic chemicals were contaminating area groundwater, but it kept secret crucial information that could have helped ...

Catherine Russ is a retired teacher, but she’ll be in class in the Farmingdale School District this fall for another purpose … …as a student of water aerobics ...

The segregation of blacks and whites has been embedded on Long Island as firmly as the Meadowbrook Parkway. Heading north from the South Shore bayfront, the six-lane road divides overwhelmingly ...