Long Island

A Long Island doctor is facing murder charges after five patients allegedly died between 2016 and 2018 due to prescriptions he wrote.

Football players at Stony Brook University finally got back on the field today for the first time in nearly two years.

NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

The Suffolk County Legislature dedicated the memorial to the more than 3,000 county residents who have died from COVID-19 NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Three children and one adult who were renting the lower part of a house on Long Island were hurt when an apparently “overpressurized” boiler blew early Friday, fire officials said. One of the three kids was taken to a hospital after the reported blast on Expressway Drive North in Medford around 6:30 a.m., but that child was expected to be…

The blast was so powerful, the boiler was shot through a wall and into another room where multiple children were sleeping. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

Three children and one adult who were renting the lower part of a house on Long Island were hurt when an apparently “overpressurized” boiler blew early Friday, fire officials said.

In an accident that feels like it came straight out of a horror movie, a cemetery worker was digging a grave when it collapsed in on him, essentially leaving him buried alive. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Kindergartners at Edith L. Slocum Elementary School in Ronkonkoma, New York took part in a weather lesson from Storm Team 4 Meteorologist Matt Brickman.

An off campus party resulted in multiple students testing positive for COVID , which has shut down in person learning and athletic activities in Long Island

Two Professors at Stony Brook University have helped develop a key instrument that sits on the Mars Perseverance Rover, Greg Cergol reports

Doses of the coronavirus vaccine at a New York state-run site were not stored at the correct temperature before being administered to people last week — but state officials say those impacted are not at any health risk. A spokesperson for the state’s department of health said “less than a quarter of one percent” of people inoculated on Feb. 15…

Dozens of people will have to get their first shots of the COVID vaccine again after the dosages they received at the Jones Beach site warmed up too much in transit, the state says, and thereby are not as effective. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Sylvester Manor, one of Shelter Island’s oldest homes, was once a farm owned by a family who enslaved more than two dozen people. Greg Cergol reports.

As the family calls for traffic changes, they are offering a reward to find the driver who left their beloved dog to die after striking her with a car. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

As COVID restrictions continue to be relaxed in New York City, winter weather across the country hampered efforts to open vaccination sites. Of those that have stayed open, many continue to face supply problems. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

Authorities in Nassau County have made an arrest in the hit-run death of rapper Nicki Minaj’s 64-year-old father, who was killed on Long Island less than a week ago, a police source with knowledge of the case told News 4 Wednesday. Robert Maraj was walking on a road in Mineola at 6:15 p.m. Friday when he was hit by a…

An arrest has been made in a hit-and-run that left the father of rapper Nicki Minaj dead. Greg Cergol reports.

Authorities in Nassau County have made an arrest in the hit-run death of rapper Nicki Minaj’s 64-year-old father, who was killed on Long Island less than a week ago, a police source with knowledge of the case told News 4 Wednesday.

The pandemic has put many aspects of our lives on hold, it’s forced many to call off celebrations like weddings. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.