Charles Lane

Saturday is the Belmont Stakes, the last race in the vaunted Triple Crown series of horse races. But as excitement builds, so does a bitter feud in the business of horse racing.

New York's top education official has taken his road show promoting new Common Core learning standards private. After facing tough crowds and getting heckled last week, King has met with educators behind closed doors.

A shooting near a Long Island Mall put law enforcement on high alert today. Now, hundreds of police are still searching for the alleged assailant.

A suburban county on Long Island, N.Y., is taking a novel approach to monitoring sex offenders: It's giving the job to a victims' advocacy group.

The measure was approved unanimously earlier this year; lawmakers call it a cost-effective way to keep citizens safe. But a local lawyer calls it a ...

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is criticizing charities for moving too slowly to deliver donations for Sandy victims.

It looks almost like the Millennium Falcon, creeping ever so slowing, taking up the entire roadway on New York's Long Island. A team of spotters walks alongside, calling out trees that need cutting and road signs that need to be taken down.

Its name is the Muon g-2 (pronounced g ...

Connecticut and Suffolk County, Long Island, were among the areas hardest hit by the storm that blew through the region Friday night. The storm knocked out power to thousands and dum...

Three children were killed when a yacht capsized off Long Island on the Fourth of July, sending 24 others into the Long Island Sound, where many were rescued by fellow boaters, police said Thursday.

Students taking college entrance exams this fall will have to submit photo IDs with their applications — a key security upgrade following a widespread cheating scandal at a number of high schools on New York's Long Island, a prosecutor and testing officials announced Tuesday.

Long Island won big in the regional economic development grants Governor Andrew Cuomo announced this week. It's getting $101.6 million compared to New York City's $66 million.

Democrat Steve Bellone will be the new county executive for Suffolk County after a reversal from incumbent Steve Levy last spring that he would not seek a third term because of an ongoing ethics investigation.