A Fairfield County homeowner is facing charges after hosting minors at his home who were caught drinking, police said.Officers from the New Canaan Police Department responded to a Valley Road home near the intersection of Mariomi Road at 10:42 p.m. on Wednesday, June 16, where there was a report of a possible party with loud music playing.According to police, the responding officers ...

A coyote warning has been issued in a Westchester town following a recent rash of sightings in the area.While noting that seeing a coyote in Rye is not an unusual thing, the local police department issued an alert to the community advising them to take common-sense precautions to ensure that man and animal can peacefully coexist.Officials said that homeowners should never approach or ...

Though New York has hit the 70 percent vaccination rate that lifted most COVID-19 restrictions statewide, a new pop-up vaccination site has been planned on Long Island.There will be a dozen new pop-up sites scheduled across the state in the coming days, including one in Nassau County at Northwell Health on Marcus Avenue in New Hyde Park that will be open on Friday, June 18. Earlier ...

One firefighter was hospitalized battling an overnight fire that broke out in an area home, officials announced.First responders in Putnam County from the Mahopac Falls Volunteer Fire Department and Carmel Police Department responded to a Secor Road home at approximately 9:15 p.m. on Wednesday, June 16, where there was a report of a deck on fire with an elderly resident possibly inside ...

There will be a COVID-19 pop-up vaccination site set up in Westchester as the county continues its recovery from the pandemic.Officials announced that from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, June 18, the clinic will be held at the Westchester County Department of Health Clinic at 134 Court St. in White Plains.The pop-up is for walk-ins 18 and older and the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will ...

School officials in Carmel are scrambling after voters in the district became one of only two in New York to reject a proposed budget for the second time.This week, voters shot down a proposed $133,581,366 spending plan for the second time, forcing the Board of Education to adopt a contingency budget of approximately $131 million that will require cutting $1,664,980 from the budget.The ...

Wegmans is warning customers that some personal information may have been exposed to hackers due to a recent data breach.The grocery giant issued an alert this week to notify customers that two databases used for Wegmans internal business purposes were inadvertently left open to potential outside access due to a configuration issue.Officials said that customer names, addresses, phone ...

A Long Island school board trustee resigned after allegedly being involved in an “incident” with a teenager where he verbally abused a student.James Mancaruso, a member of the Sachem School Board of Education, stepped down from his position after allegedly yelling and cursing at a female student on the Sachem East High School campus in Farmingville.According to News 12, Mancaruso ...

A Long Island woman will spend years behind bars after admitting to her role in a high-speed crash on the Meadowbrook Parkway that killed a 39-year-old mother and injured her 8-year-old son. Freeport resident Nicole Pollock, age 28, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, June 16 to multiple counts of assault for allegedly drinking, doing drugs, driving, and rear-ending another driver last year, ...

The 52-year-old husband of a child care provider has been indicted for allegedly sexually abusing children while they were in his wife’s care at their Long Island home, the District Attorney’s Office announced.It is alleged that multiple children were sexually abused by Patchogue resident Angel Tacuri at separate times between 2010 and 2014 when the girls were between the ages of 3 and ...