Condoms are no longer being used as evidence in Nassau County prostitution cases -- a move intended to help prevent the spread of disease among sex workers. The policy change was quietly put into effect last fall by District Attorney Kathleen Ric...
While gun control advocates were understandably upset by their failure to achieve expanded background checks in Congress, district attorneys on Long Island achieved some remarkable success in arresting dealers in illegal guns that threaten our com...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Eighteen people have been arrested on Long Island in what authorities are calling the largest gang takedown in Nassau County history. The takedown crippled the “Rollin’ 60s” — a violent set of...
The former treasurer of a Woodmere synagogue was sentenced Tuesday to up to 4 years in prison for stealing more than $634,000 from the congregation. Isaac Zucker, 49, will have to serve a minimum of 15 months under terms of the sentence imposed b...
Economic development decisions shouldn't be the output of purely financial calculations or forecasts. Like public budgets, they should incorporate a moral influence that reflects the public's values — even if those values compete in small pa...
Students use Facebook to tease a classmate. A boy shoves a kid in the hallway outside the cafeteria. A girl is bullied in gym class. State law requires schools to record such incidents and report them each year to the state Education Department, ...
One block north of the boardwalk in Coney Island, a white van is parked on the windswept block of Surf Avenue, between West 22nd and West 23rd Streets. Just outside the van stands a young woman wearing a teal hoodie, her auburn hair pulled back in...