Long Island

A pet store manager faces arraignment Tuesday on grand larceny charges for stealing $5,700 from the Massapequa store's receipts, the Nassau police said.

Raising estimates of storm damage to $28.8 million, Sen. Charles Schumer and local Suffolk officials Monday toured battered Gilgo Beach in Babylon and pressed for the county to be declared a federal disaster area after April's nor'easter.

The Long Island Rail Road has reduced the amount of property it plans to seize for two related projects intended to alleviate traffic congestion and increase rush-hour service.

Freelance journalist Peter Braunstein had a "well-devised plan" when he got into a former co-worker's home by pretending to be a firefighter and then sexually tormented her for 13 hours, a prosecutor said Monday.

The hit-and-run driver wanted for killing a Bushwick teen was arrested Monday -- and it turns out he was driving drunk, police said.