A Long Island woman pleaded not guilty Thursday to abusing her children and family pets, sometimes forcing the children to witness her torturing animals to death, prosecutors said. "This is a case where a mother subjected her children to the most unimaginable and horrific living conditions that ...

A former budget officer in New York's exclusive Hamptons area pleaded not guilty Thursday to raiding a fund meant to buy land for conservation purposes and using $8 million to instead cover budget shortfalls. Ted Hults, who resigned from his post in East Hampton last ...

Authorities found handguns, shotguns and ammunition in the basement of a small Long Island day care center, an arsenal that allegedly belonged to a Bloods street gang member, prosecutors said Tuesday. The operator of the Just in Time Day Care Center, Kathryn ...

An appeals court has cleared 10 nurses of criminal charges after they were accused of endangering patients by resigning en masse from a Long Island nursing home to protest working conditions. The state Appellate Division on Thursday cited the constitutional amendment against slavery in saying ...