The Latest Breaking News from Long Island

A prosecutor’s office in Brazil said that it was reviving a long-dormant criminal case against George Santos, as the fabulist Long Island congressman-elect prepared to take his House seat on Tuesday.

Republicans from blue districts plan to pressure their slim House majority against a GOP-created limit deductions for state and local taxes.

NEW YORK — The Democratic candidate who lost a Long Island congressional seat to Rep.-elect George Santos says the incoming GOP lawmaker should face major investigations over shocking reports he faked big chunks of his résumé.

NEW YORK — It was something so normal: Just two former teammates playing catch.

STORRS, Conn. — Andre Jackson jumped into the passing lane and ripped the ball from Long Island’s Quion Burns at full speed. Tearing down the court in a footrace with Burns, Jackson went behind his back, sending Burns in the other direction, and landed a two-handed slam that got the…

The parents of Gabby Petito, the Blue Point, New York, native whose 2021 disappearance and homicide while on a cross-country road trip with her fiance captured national attention, have asked a Florida judge to add a Long Island attorney as a defendant to their lawsuit against the parents of their daughter’s…

Richard Cottingham, who is known as ‘Torso killer’ or ‘Times Square Killer’ claims to have killed up to 100 women

NEW YORK — A convicted serial murderer known as the “Times Square Killer” whose savage string of sexually charged murders stretched from New Jersey to Manhattan for nearly 15 years confessed Monday to the half-century-old homicides of five women on Long Island.

A serial killer known as the “Torso Killer” has admitted to killing a 23-year-old woman outside a Long Island shopping mall in 1968 and four other women decades ago