NY man gets prison in fatal drunken boating crash NY man gets prison in fatal drunken boating crash RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man who admitted being drunk during a fatal boat crash on Long Island has been sentenced to prison.

Long Island honors students have been caught using Facebook to cheat on their homework — by posting and sharing answers online, school officials said yesterday. At least 11 ninth-graders in two honors-biology classes at West Islip HS were involved . “There is an investigation in the high school,’’ said West Islip Schools...

LI police reopening probe into 1986 student death MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Police on Long Island are reopening the investigation into the 1986 death of a teenage rabbinical student who was bludgeoned in his dormitory room. Nassau County police are holding a press conference on Tuesday to discuss the case. The body of Chaim Weiss was found in his bed ...

A Long Island dockworker raked in a $26.5 million Lotto jackpot — and promptly quit his job. Fidencio Argueta, 60, from Brentwood, said the decision to play Quick-Pick numbers in the state’s six-digit lottery on April 10 just came to him on a whim. “I felt like I should...

Driver abducted, bound during LI carjacking FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — Police on Long Island are looking for five gunmen who robbed a driver, then bound him and drove around with him in the trunk before releasing him. Police say the gunmen pulled the victim out of his car, robbed and struck him in the head, bound him with tape and ...