A teenage girl has been accused of driving drunk after an overnight crash that seriously injured two people near a Long Island intersection. It happened around 9:15 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4 in Dix Hills.The 17-year-old girl was driving a 2010 Honda Civic with three passengers eastbound on Vanderbilt Parkway, one-quarter mile east of McCulloch Drive when she lost control of ...

Two people are facing charges after a raid of a Hudson Valley business that police say was selling cannabis to minors.Over the last several weeks in Rockland County, the Suffern Police Department said it began receiving information regarding a specific “smoke shop” in the downtown business area that was engaged in selling marijuana to juveniles. The Suffern PD’s detective ...

Get set for a big turnaround in temperatures after dangerous wind chills that broke records in parts of the Northeast.The rebound in temps will start on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 5, with partly sunny skies and a high temperature climbing to the low to mid 40s from the mid 20s in the morning. (See the image above from AccuWeather.com.) Monday, Feb. 6 will be mostly sunny with a high ...

Police have launched a homicide investigation after it was determined a man found dead in the driver's seat of a car in Fairfield County did not die as a result of an accident.On Saturday, Feb. 4 at approximately 3:20 a.m., Connecticut State Police troopers assigned to Troop G in Bridgeport responded to a report of one-car crash on Route 7 northbound in the area of Exit 2 in ...

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man who fell into a canal on Long Island.Suffolk County Police Department officers responded to a call of a man in the canal in Lindenhurst behind a residence on the 900 block of Pacific St., at around 9:40 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3. The man, identified as Don Seddio, age 65, of Lindenhurst, was ...

Two people were injured, one seriously, after an overnight crash on Long Island.It happened just before 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3 in West Islip.A 20-year-old West Islip man was driving a 2003 BMW westbound in front of 425 Union Blvd., when the vehicle struck an eastbound 2015 Toyota sedan as the driver was attempting to turn left into a parking lot, Suffolk County Police said.The ...

The most dangerous wind gusts that accompanied a cold front moving through the region have passed, but more than 1,000 remain without power on Long Island.As of around 9:15 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, PSEG Long Island is reporting a total of 1,186 affected customers, with an overwhelming amount in Suffolk.Here's the breakdown of outages by county:Suffolk, 946Nassau, 240Related ...

The most dangerous wind gusts that accompanied a cold front that is moving through the region have passed, but thousands remain without power in Connecticut.As of around 9 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, Eversource is reporting around 3,500 outages statewide, with United Illuminating reporting around 55 outages in its service territory.These municipalities are reporting the most ...

Dangerously cold wind chill temperatures will continue to impact the region throughout the day on Saturday, Feb. 4 before there's a big turnaround in temperatures.Wind-chill values of as low as 25 below zero have been reported early Saturday morning."The cold wind chills could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 30 minutes," the National Weather Service ...

The identity has been released of a person killed in a crash near a Long Island intersection.  It happened around 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2 in Nesconset.A 27-year-old Nesconset woman was driving a 2005 Honda CR-V on eastbound Nesconset Highway, east of Terry Road, when her vehicle struck a pedestrian in the roadway, Suffolk County Police said.The ...