Suffolk County

A Long Island man accused of shooting his ex-wife and her boyfriend to death inside their home after warning his teen daughter to get out suffered a spinal cord injury while being held in jail ahead of his court hearings, police said.

Greg Cergol reporting on the charges being upgraded in the Long Island double murder. 

Less than a week after a rare, 1-in-30 million orange lobster was rescued from the seafood section of a Long Island grocery store, two more similarly colored crustaceans were found at another supermarket nearby — and it’s believed all the lobsters are related.

The investigation is continuing Wednesday after a body was found inside a suitcase behind an apartment building on Long Island.

The body was discovered inside a suitcase that was in a wooded area behind an apartment building in Huntington Station. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A Burlington employee on Long Island has been arrested for allegedly taking photos of a young girl in the changing room. Suffolk County police say 27-year-old William Veitch-Cante was working at the retail store on Veterans Memorial Highway in Commack when he snuck his cellphone under a changing room door to capture images of a 10-year-old girl who was trying…

A man was charged for allegedly killing his ex-wife and her boyfriend inside their St. James home. Police said the suspect, Daniel Coppola, called his teenage daughter to tell her to get out of the house before carrying out the murders. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

A Long Island man was arrested for allegedly shooting his ex-wife and her boyfriend to death inside their home, after calling his teen daughter to warn her to leave.

Meet Clementine, the rare orange lobster saved from a Stop & Shop in Southampton.

That was close. A 1-in-30-million orange lobster was rescued and returned to the sea by animal advocacy organization Humane Long Island after being spotted in the seafood section of a Southampton Stop & Shop by staff at the local animal shelter. The crustacean, aptly named Clementine, became an immediate celebrity once word of her spectacular uniqueness spread at the grocery store....

Authorities are looking for a man who broke into a Long Island woman’s East Hampton home in the middle of the day, threw her to the ground by the neck and stole cash before running off, according to police. Police say it was shortly before 5 p.m. Monday that the suspect got into the home on Old Stone Highway,...

Authorities are investigating the death of a man who lost consciousness as police officers were trying to subdue him on Long Island. Suffolk County police got a 911 call about a possibly intoxicated man lying on the ground in Wyandanch shortly before 10:30 a.m. Thursday, the department said in a news release. Officers arrived and found the man acting agitated…

The suspect behind a stabbing at Long Island’s Adventureland Amusement Park stabbing is expected to be arraigned Monday.

A confrontation between two families at Long Island’s Adventureland Amusement Park Sunday ended with a man stabbed and another under arrest, according to police and park officials. The dispute broke out just before 5 p.m. on Sunday at the East Farmingdale amusement park on Broadhollow Road, as one man’s wife was punched in the face and passed out on...

A suspect is in custody after a stabbing at Long Island’s Adventureland Amusement Park Sunday that sent a person to the hospital, police said. The stabbing occurred just before 5 p.m. on Sunday at the Farmingdale amusement park on Broadhollow Road, according to Suffolk County police. A victim was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital in serious condition,...

There was a final farewell held on Long Island for Officer Emilia Rennhack, killed when a minivan crashed into a nail salon in Deer Park. 

An off-duty New York Police Department officer who was among four killed when a drunk driver plowed into a nail salon on Long Island last month has been laid to rest.

Police are investigating after a home fireworks display in Suffolk County injured four people and damaged cars in the area, police said.

Four people were recovering Friday after being injured in a home fireworks display in Port Jefferson Station on Independence Day, police said. Several cars parked on the street were also damaged in the incident that quickly got out of control. Police said a large group of people were watching the fireworks display at a home on Foxrun Court around 10…

A man severed three fingers on his left hand and damaged the other two fingers in a fireworks accident in Suffolk County on July 4, police said. The 21-year-old victim was lighting a firework at an Independence Day party in Copiague just after 9 p.m. when it exploded in his hand, according to Suffolk County police. The incident occurred in…