Kathleen Rice

The Hofstra freshman - who initially told police she was gang raped by five men and then recanted her story - will not face criminal charges, according to law enforcement officials. Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice says 18-year-old Danmell...

The 18-year-old Hofstra University student - who claimed a group of men raped her inside a dorm room - is recanting her story, sources tell PIX News. The men accused of the crime - Rondell Bedward, Jesus Ortize, Kevin Tavera, Stalin Felipe - were...

A judge has sentenced a Long Island man - convicted of pointing a loaded handgun at officers during an early morning street confrontation - to a seven-year prison term. Frantz Byer, 22, had been convicted in January of criminal possession of a weapon and...

A prosecutor on Thursday was considering levying criminal charges against a Hofstra University student who claimed she was gang-raped by five men and then recanted her story. The men accused of the crime - Rondell Bedward, Jesus Ortize, Kevin Tavera,...

Nassau County officials fired six employees at the Traffic and Parking Violations Agency - including the agency's assistant director - after a probe launched by authorities found them fixing more than 100 tickets for themselves, friends and family...

A judge sentenced a stepfather, charged with sexually abusing his now 17-year-old stepdaughter in the parking lot of his business last year, to a 12-year-prison term. Harold Gopaul of Bellerose, Queens, was convicted on May 15 of 14 counts of first...

A group of volunteers kicked back with cocktails to help Nassau County Law enforcement officials prove a point. After five drinks Michael Henchy told PIX News he was feeling fine and that he could probably drive a car. But that all changed when he took a...

A New York City police officer - accused of hiring another man to kill his ex-wife - appeared in a Long Island courtroom Friday morning where he entered a plea of not guilty in connection with the crime. Officer Anthony Battisti, 42, a 17-year veteran of...

EAST MEADOW, N.Y. -- Authorities dismissed charges against four men accused of gang-raping a university student after the 18-year-old woman recanted her story. "I'm so happy the truth finally came out," said Stalin Felipe, 19, outside the Nassau County...

In a racially charged beating case in Roosevelt, a Nassau County grand jury has dismissed charges against the owner of a delicatessen and three workers there who were accused of attacking a black man outside the store. The four men, who were charged with...

Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi is expected to announce Tuesday that he intends to seek a third term in the post. The initial announcement is to be made on his Web site here at about 10:30 a.m. He said......

A Flower Hill radiologist faces probation after admitting Tuesday to a failed suicide pact with his terminally ill wife in which she died and he survived, authorities said. Dr. Rajasekar Sham, 68, pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in the Nov....