Long Island

A Nassau County correctional officer with 11 months on the job was arrested after contraband was allegedly found on him during a search when he arrived at the jail in East Meadow, according to the district attorney’s office.

It wasn’t quite a crime of biblical proportions, but it may have a Long Island man doing penance. A probationary Nassau County correctional officer with 11 months on the job was arrested after contraband was allegedly found on him during a search when he arrived at the jail in East Meadow, according to the district attorney’s office. Seized in...

Video of a Long Island high school student getting pummeled in a hallway attack at school was posted online, and now the teen’s father plans on suing the district, claiming they did not do enough to protect his daughter.

News 4’s Greg Cergol reports.

A 58-year-old Long Island man has died of his injuries after he was attacked with a machete in a local laundromat earlier this month, police say. Michael Oliver, of Hempstead, was critically injured in the pre-dawn March 14 attack at the Laundry Palace on Merrick Road. Nassau County cops say he had been hit multiple times with a machete after…

Greg Cergol reporting on the student stabbed by a classmate in Lindenhurst.

Newly discovered cellphone videos posted on social media show the moments after a stabbing inside a Long Island middle school between two boys, which may have been over a girl.

A 12-year-old was arrested.

A 12-year-old student was arrested for stabbing a classmate at Lindenhurst Middle School. Greg Cergol reports.

A bloody scene unfolded on Long Island late Saturday when a gunman opened fire on a crowd of people, wounding four people who all required hospitalization, police said. The violence occurred around 10:30 p.m. in Hempstead off Spencer Place near Jerusalem Avenue, authorities said in a news release. Police said the unidentified suspect drew a firearm and began shooting at…

A reward is being offered for the driver who intentionally rammed into a cop and multiple police vehicles two weeks ago.

A Long Island couple is suing the company that owns TikTok, saying that videos on the popular social media app glorified suicide and led to their son’s death. Dean and Michelle Nasca state in the lawsuit that the app directed more than 1,000 videos promoting suicide, hopelessness and self-harm to their 16-year-old son Chase’s curated “For You” page. The...

A stomach bug spreading through a Long Island school is causing hundreds of students to stay home. Greg Cergol reports.

Hundreds of students at a Long Island have been out sick in the last week, and now health officials believe they know what it is: the very contagious norovirus, which can cause vomiting and diarrhea.

Environmental officials on Long Island have unveiled a plan to save billions of gallons of water. Greg Cergol reports.

The pilot behind Friday’s emergency beach landing on Long Island has been revealed. A New York state assemblyman was piloting the single-engine Beechcraft when his aircraft started experiencing engine failure. The pilot and a passenger on board both survived the unplanned touchdown on a beach in Shoreham. “This afternoon, I went out to practice maneuvers in my airplane,” Clyde...

The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI will investigate the social platform following allegations that the company spied on journalists.

A teacher on Long Island is accused of making inappropriate and racist comments towards a special needs student. Greg Cergol talks with the family.

Disturbing allegations have surfaced out of a Long Island high school, where a teacher has been accused of making racist and inappropriate remarks toward a special needs student.

New analysis of fossils revealed some incredible discoveries about one particular type of dinosaur, called a Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum. The big new revelation: Its neck was nearly 50 feet long.