A group of residents say local officials failed to properly assess environmental and safety hazards in granting an easement to build a power line through the town of Wainscott on Long Island.
Read moreThree weeks after Meryl Streep’s nephew was arrested on Long Island, the college student whom Charles Harrison Streep is accused of beating up in a fit of road rage filed suit for punitive damages.
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A Long Island criminal defendant tried faking his death to avoid a jail sentence, but the phony death certificate his lawyer submitted had a glaring spelling error that made it a dead giveaway for a fraud, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Read moreWielding a machete in its sheath for a photo op, a Long Island prosecutor announced Friday that nearly a hundred drug dealers and MS-13 members are off the streets after the biggest gang bust of its kind.
Read moreReviving claims that a landlord had the power to stop one racist tenant from targeting another, the Second Circuit ruled Monday that the landlord may be liable for failure to correct a hostile housing environment.
Read moreThe United States brought a federal complaint Monday against a Native American who it says has ignored a demand to clean up years of construction waste dumped into Long Island wetlands.
Read moreCalling for the chance to elect town board representatives by district, Latinos living in Islip, New York, brought a federal complaint to overhaul the town’s at-large voting system.
Read moreThere is no dispute that decades of industrial work contaminated the water in Bethpage, but the Second Circuit ruled Friday that the Long Island community waited too long to seek damages from Northrup Grumman.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency proposed a $13.5 million plan Friday to clean up contaminated groundwater in the eastern area of the Old Roosevelt Field, a Superfund site in Garden City, New York.
Read moreLong Island is on the brink of “environmental catastrophe,” residents claim in a federal complaint, accusing New York and U.S. authorities of letting radioactive waste spread in the groundwater.
Read moreSaying her teenage daughter was “brutally mutilated and murdered” by members of MS-13, a Long Island mother claims in a federal complaint that school officials let gang bullying turn fatal.
Read moreThe Central American Refugee Center filed suit Monday over a police policy in Nassau County, New York, that requires federal authorities to be notified when an immigrant is arrested.
Read moreA Long Island district attorney and one of his chief aides were indicted Wednesday on accusations that they covered up a former police chief’s beating of a handcuffed suspect five years ago.
Read moreNew York state on Thursday followed through on its promise to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its Administrator Scott Pruitt for allowing dredged sediments to be dumped into eastern Long Island Sound.
Read moreGathering reporters at a Long Island park sullied in an asbestos-dumping scandal, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman unveiled federal charges Thursday against the dozens he said left tens of thousands of tons of deadly debris there in 2014.
Read moreSet to speak about Salvadoran gang violence Friday on Long Island, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rubbed old wounds in a nearby immigrant community still scarred by an infamous 2008 hate crime.
Read moreA Long Island man sued his police commissioner for refusing to give him a concealed carry permit, claiming gang members who threatened to kill him two decades ago are being released from prison.
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