MEDFORD, Long Island (WABC) -- A math teacher on Long Island is being called a hero for saving a student who was choking -- and now he is turning the terrifying experience into a lifesaving lesson.

A Long Island man drowned while trying to rescue a woman and her child from the ocean during a family vacation to Bermuda.

Prime minister Manuel Marrero declared an "energy emergency" on Thursday following months of lengthy blackouts.

Cubans expressed alarm at the situation and one resident said they felt the country had reached the “bottom of the barrel.” ...

Cuba’s government closed schools and non-essential industries and sent most state workers home in a last-ditch effort to keep the lights on for residents.

The MTA is adding two more round-trip trains heading up along the Hudson River running every 30 minutes. The agency says the ...

Police say an off-duty dispatcher for a Long Island police department accidentally shot himself in the hand while he was unloading his gun in a moving car.

A Long Island man who admitted stabbing his wife in front of their teenage son earlier this year has been sentenced to 22 years to life in prison, officials announced Thursday. Ryszard Murawski of ...

St Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister Dr Terrance Drew says the country was “on the brink” of losing its visa-free visa-free access ...

Billy Joel's 26-acre waterfront estate on Long Island's north shore is listed for $49.9 million. See the photos.

A Bayport man admitted to spraying insecticide at police officers and assaulting two journalists at the infamous Jan. 6 riots ...

A former Long Island funeral home owner has pleaded guilty to spraying wasp killer at police officers and assaulting two journalists, including an Associated Press photographer, during a mob’s riot at ...