Mastic

A leak in a large propane gas tank at a suburban shopping center forced residents out of 900 homes before dawn on New Year's Day and shut down a swath of roads and railroad service for hours on eastern Long Island. The leak in the 30,000-gallon...

A Long Island mom -- traveling along with her three-year-old daughter -- was busted Thursday for driving drunk after she crashed into a parked car. The incident occurred in front of 36 Robinwood St., in Mastic around 12:45 a.m. According to Suffolk...

A Long Island couple are in police custody after staging a fake kidnapping in order to obtain money from a parent, Suffolk County police announced Monday. Stephanie Benatatos, 21, and her boyfriend Zifiris "John" Valsamis, 24, apparently made telephone...

Racist graffiti, some targeting President-elect Barack Obama, was scrawled on more than a dozen cars in a normally quiet Mastic neighborhood on Wednesday morning, police and residents said. A Suffolk County police spokesman said "multiple vehicles"...

Two women and one man were arrested Monday after police say they brutally attacked a female while making numerous anti-gay remarks about the victim's sexual orientation. The incident happened on Gooseberry Drive in Mastic Beach just after 7 p.m.,...

A Long Island father and son who accumulated nearly 85,000 pounds of garbage on their property are facing thousands of dollars in fines, Suffolk County officials said. Code enforcement officials removed the mounds of rubbish, which required 10 garbage...

A female prisoner at the Suffolk County jail was beaten, sodomized, raped and impregnated by a correction officer in May, according to a notice of claim filed last week that asks for $50 million in damages from the county. The Mastic Beach woman, whom...

A Long Island man is under arrest for making 31 false 911 calls over the past three weeks, and Suffolk County police believe he is responsible for up to 300 more phone calls. The stream of calls to 911 began on August 31, when the system became...

In a decision that could put a significant crimp in untaxed cigarette sales from the Poospatuck tribal reservation in Mastic, a federal judge has granted New York City's request for an injunction against sales to nonmembers of the Indian tribe. U.S....

MASTIC BEACH, N.Y (WPIX) --  Rescue agencies are trying to figure out what caused a single-engine vintage World War II-era plane to crash off the waters of Mastic Beach, killing the pilot aboard the aircraft. Robert Baranaskas, 61, of Northport, took off...

A construction worker was shot to death while he was sitting in his car in Lake Ronkonkoma Monday morning, Suffolk County police said. Raymond Hirt, 51, a construction worker from Mastic Beach, was parked on Beach Street, just south of nearby...

A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims from data compiled by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The overall death toll from the attacks stands at 2,977 -- including 2,753 killed as a result of the attacks at the World Trade Center, 184...