A summerlike stretch of warm, humid days will be followed by a round of drenching thunderstorms.After a foggy, cloudy start on Wednesday, May 27, skies will gradually clear with sunshine arriving in the afternoon. The high temperature will range from around 70 degrees along the coast to the mid 70s to 80 degrees farther north and inland with high humidity.There will be more patchy ...

A 4-year-old girl was killed overnight in a crash on Long Island involving an impaired teenage driver, police said.The crash occurred around 6:50 p.m. Tuesday, May 26, in Brentwood, Suffolk County Police said.Christian Yanes, 19, of Brentwood, was driving a 2018 Honda Civic northbound on Fulton Street when the vehicle struck Roussy A. Cabrera Fuentes in the roadway in ...

The body has been found of a man who went missing after an accident earlier this month in which a boat overturned off the Long Island coast.Nassau County Police reported on Sunday morning, May 3 that one man thrown from the boat, John Costa, of Farmingdale, was removed from the water by the New York City Police Aviation Dive Team and also transported by the Coast Guard to ...

Responding police officers moved quickly to rescue five people during a fire at a two-story building on Long Island.The blaze broke out around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 26 in Huntington Station.Suffolk County Police Second Precinct officers Matthew Berube and Michael Haggerty and Emergency Service Section officers Giacomo Marchese and John Farrell responded to a 911 call reporting a fire ...

A team of scientists has high hopes for a potential breakthrough blocker for the novel strain of coronavirus (COVID-19).It has discovered that strains of medical cannabis may help prevent contracting COVID infections.At least a dozen cannabis plants of the hundreds tested were high in CBD that appeared to affect the ACE2 pathways that the virus uses to access the body, the researchers ...

Students in the region have not stepped inside school buildings for classes since the start of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in mid-March.While it remains to be seen if they will be able to return in the fall, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is now providing some guidance.The CDC has released information outlining guidelines for reopening schools for the 2020-2021 ...

The FBI has joined the massive multi-state manhunt for a college student who played high school football in Fairfield County who police say is connected to two homicides, a home invasion, and a kidnapping.Newtown High School graduate Peter Manfredonia, a University of Connecticut student, is believed to be armed with several firearms – pistols and long guns – and presumed dangerous, ...

A 35-year-old man driving under the influence of alcohol crashed into a utility pole, according to police.It happened around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 24 in New Canaan.That's when police responded to the scene of the crash at Cherry Street and Park Street.Investigating officers detected the driver, Moises Aguilar-Matamoros, of New Canaan, showed signs of impairment and conducted ...

A 16-year-old was rescued after falling about 30 feet off a mountain in Rockland County.The Clarkstown Police Department deployed a drone to help assist with the rescue of an injured hiker at Hook Mountain, located in Rockland Lake State Park, located in the hamlets of Congers and Valley Cottage, on Friday night, May 22.The teen, who sustained unspecified injuries, was removed from the ...

Reports of "an increase in rodent activity" in several areas amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have prompted the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to issue a warning on rats."Jurisdictions have closed or limited service at restaurants and other commercial establishments to help limit the spread of COVID-19," the CDC said in a statement posted on its ...