Sunrise Highway

A truck driver from New Jersey is facing criminal charges in a Long Island court for allegedly causing a chain-reaction crash on a highway late Friday night. Police in Nassau County say David Gonzalez was driving a tractor-trailer on Sunrise Highway around 10 p.m. when he slammed into a vehicle stopped in a left-hand turn lane. The force of the…

An escaped bull has eluded capture for several days on Long Island despite attempts to lure the roaming animal with grain and a cow in heat

A bull is on the loose on Long Island. Greg Cergol reports on the effort to reign him in.

Three pigs that escaped a trailer destined for an animal rescue in New York were retrieved by police and others, officials said Friday. Sgt. Theodore Martinez was driving a police car eastbound on Sunset Highway near Broadway Avenue in Sayville when he saw what looked like a pig on the side of the road, department officials said in a release….

A 31-year-old man has been charged with DWI, vehicular manslaughter and drug-related crimes in the Brooklyn backhoe crash that killed another man.

Three Long Island boys were injured after being struck by a vehicle while trying to cross the Sunrise Highway in the predawn hours Wednesday, police say.

One person died and another was taken to a hospital after a violent crash with a parked backhoe in Brooklyn early Wednesday, authorities said.

Three children ages ranging from 9 to 13 years old were hit by a vehicle on a highway in Long Island early Wednesday morning, sources say.

It was quite a wild sight for commuters Monday morning on the Sunrise Highway – a sight reminiscent of the wild, wild West as a rogue thoroughbred horse was found trotting along the median of busy traffic lanes.

A woman in her 30s or 40s was struck and killed by a subway in Brooklyn at the height of Monday’s morning rush, authorities say.

A Long Island man is arrested after police say he chased after a grocery store worker with a large hunting knife.

A man was shot as he drove down the Sunrise Highway on Sunday afternoon, police say.

A 29-year-old man was killed when his motorcycle collided with a vehicle in Lindenhurst, police said.

A Long Island woman was found slumped over the wheel of her parked car at a shopping center parking lot, apparently having overdosed on heroin as her infant daughter sat in the back, police say.  Nassau County police officers were called to the lot at 5500 Sunrise Highway in Massapequa Monday afternoon and found 29-year-old Rhiannon Baker slumped over the…

Gunfire erupted in Brooklyn’s busy MetroTech Plaza after two groups of young men got into an argument and one opened fire on the street Wednesday, law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation tell News 4.

A 64-year-old NYPD employee died when a tire flew off a truck on the Gowanus Expressway and smashed into his windshield as he drove in the HOV lane, authorities said Wednesday.

A driver has contacted police saying he believes the tire that smashed into another car, claiming a man’s life, came from his trailer.

Authorities are asking for help finding the driver of a vehicle whose tire flung off on a Long Island highway and smashed into another car, spinning that driver into an out-of-control median crash that claimed the person’s life.

A tire flew off a vehicle traveling on a Long Island highway and hit a car, killing one person, officials said.

A 19-year-old woman was busted for alleged drunken driving after a fiery crash that landed her, two cops and another man in the hospital early Friday.