Nassau County

A landlord in Long Island is facing charges after a Monday morning fire that broke out at his property left one of his tenants dead and another two injured, police said. According to Nassau County Police, officers responded to a house fire on Front Street in Hempstead at 6:30 a.m. and found the building completely engulfed in flames. The intense…

One person is dead and another is seriously injured after a fire in Hempstead. News 4’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Hundreds of Long Island families are heartbroken that their favorite camp won’t be around next summer, due to a legal tug of war pitting a village against a Jewish community center. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Hundreds of families who send their children to a Jewish day camp on Long Island will have to soon make alternate plans.

A 55-year-old Long Island man has been arraigned on murder and weapons charges in the killing of his 39-year-old girlfriend, who was found shot to death inside the luxury apartment they shared after a welfare check in late July, Nassau County prosecutors said Tuesday. Mark Small, of Elmont, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in the death of Marivel Estevez and was…

Police say a 19-year-old was killed steps from the entrance of a Long Island McDonald’s in the middle of the afternoon Wednesday. Crime scene tape surrounds the restaurant as police in Hempstead continue to investigate the deadly shooting hours after it took place at around 3:48 p.m. Various witnesses tell News 4 New York that they heard numerous shots —…

A 19-year-old was killed in the shooting. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

A Queens man has been arrested, accused of impersonating a code enforcement inspector at dozens of Long Island businesses, authorities announced over the weekend. Nassau County Police said John Garland would go into a store and tell staff their sign was in violation of local ordinances, and threaten them with fines. One at least one occasion, he’s accused of...

A $6,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the person who shot and killed a widow’s beloved rescue cat on Long Island, the Nassau County Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals announced Friday. SPCA officials say the cat, an 11-year-old feline named Stella, was shot between Sept. 1 and Sept. 4 near Sutherland and…

Dozens of special education students can’t make it to or from school due to a bus driver shortage in Nassau County. Greg Cergol reports.

Leaders in Nassau County are demanding that a Long Island Rail Road station receive major renovations ASAP, claiming that the station has fallen into “dangerous” disrepair.

There’s a new call to revamp the Valley Stream LIRR Station, News 4′ Pei-Sze Cheng is live with more details.

Police on Long Island found a man beaten and held hostage in the back of a pickup truck in what they believe was an attempted abduction and possible murder plot from the notorious MS-13 gang.

Police say they pulled over a truck with a man beaten and held hostage in the backseat. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Nine members and associates of organized crime families — including a Nassau County detective — were charged Tuesday on racketeering, illegal gambling and other charges, federal prosecutors announced, in an organized crime racket reminiscent of the Mafia’s heyday. According to court filings, members of the Genovese and Bonanno organized crime families operated a number of illegal gambling operations in New…

Two MS-13 gang members will spend decades behind bars after they were sentenced for their roles in the August 2017 machete murder of a 22-year-old man whose body was eventually discovered in a wooded area in Uniondale, according to prosecutors. Luis Alejandro Varela, 24 and from Mineola, as well as William Reyes-Fuentes, 27 and from Uniondale, pleaded guilty on June…

In a million-dollar drug bust on Long Island, police said a duo — a DJ and a U.S. Postal Service worker — were allegedly trafficking cocaine and fentanyl across the country, using the postal service to ship the drugs.

Long Island police say the duo was trafficking cocaine and fentanyl across the country by shipping the drugs through the postal service, Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

News 4’s Greg Cergol reports on the arrest of a woman found dead in her luxury apartment in Nassau County.

A Long Island man who was convicted of hitting Nicki Minaj’s father with his car, getting out of the vehicle and looking at the victim, then getting back into the car and driving away, has been sentenced to one year in prison, prosecutors said. Charles Polevich, of Mineola, pled guilty in May to leaving the scene of an accident...