In Long Beach, where incumbent Roy J. Lester is being challenged by Matthew Adler, Jes Bellsey and Elizabeth Treston, turnout was steady in the late afternoon at Lido Beach Middle School.

Forget the county Class AA crown or being the best in Class B, unlike in football, lacrosse, basketball or baseball. Only one team can earn the title of Suffolk champion in boys tennis, and for the fourth consecutive season, that team is Half Hollow Hills East.

More than 10,000 Hudson Valley residents joined the civilian workforce during the past month, driving the unemployment rate for the region down from 7.2 percent in March to 6.5 percent in April, according to preliminary figures released Tuesday by the state Department of Labor.

A Stony Brook University student from Elmhurst, Queens, on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to felony drug charges after authorities seized $35,000 in cash, marijuana, hallucinogens and drug paraphernalia from her dorm room, officials said.

A West Babylon man pleaded not guilty Tuesday morning to an indictment charging him with stabbing his older brother to death during an argument over beer.

Business leaders searching for seedlings of a technology boom on Long Island, like the one Silicon Valley experienced two decades ago, would have been wise to have stepped into the Charles B. Wang Center at Stony Brook University last Friday. There, an impressive roster of successful video game developers with roots on Long Island gathered to see the work of the next wave of computer science enthusiasts.

Three employees at a telephone call center in Riverhead thwarted a robbery Monday night when they subdued a gunman, holding him for police, authorities said.

A homeless teen was arrested Monday night and charged with assault, reckless endangerment and weapon possession after he fired several rounds from a shotgun during a dispute in Riverhead, injuring a woman, police said.

A newlywed couple with mental disabilities forced to live apart after their wedding last month might finally be able move in together.

Bellone administration computer experts have come under fire after a legislative capital budget report questioned a $4.9 million software deal, warning it will not save the $1 million touted and could end up costing millions more.

Suffolk Democrats Monday night named William J. Lindsay, the son of the term-limited presiding officer of the Suffolk Legislature, to succeed his father, but left the nominations for four other legislative seats open for now.

With many neighbors against a proposed zoning change, the Brookhaven Town Board is poised Tuesday night to consider allowing a developer to increase density in a Middle Island community.

The Town of Huntington's new website, after 15 months of research and building, made its debut Monday.

A plot of land in Greenlawn that was once a farm and home to horses, chickens and sheep that were kept to train border collies, has been bought by the Town of Huntington.

Detectives are investigating whether a Centereach man arrested Friday in connection with child sex crimes more than three decades ago in Massachusetts has committed similar acts in Suffolk County, police said Monday.

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Huntington’s new “Business Incubator” recently held its first event, which invited entrepreneurs to a five-part seminar.

The Mastic Beach Village board of trustees passed a resolution to switch work session meetings from the third to first Wednesday of each month.

Schools in the South Country School District briefly went on lockdown Monday after a driver told police he believed his car had been struck by gunfire on Montauk Highway in Bellport.

In front of a room full of town employees, commissioners and town board members, Eric Hofmeister was sworn in as deputy supervisor Monday morning by Islip Supervisor Tom Croci, who announced last week that he has been recalled to active duty.