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New York’s Suffolk County is putting the brakes on its red-light camera program after 14 years. It will be out of commission on Dec. 1. "I get too many tickets. Turning on red when it doesn't say no turn on red," says Ben Leibstein, of Babylon. Legislator Kevin McCaffrey says lawmakers did not renew the program beyond Dec. 1. "This program needs to be redesigned about safety, not revenue generation," says McCaffrey. As News 12 has reported, Suffolk County has about 100 red-light cameras. The tickets are about $115. The program has generated around $39 million each year for Suffolk...

A former Israel Defense Force officer just became the first Republican elected to a state assembly seat in northern Hempstead, LI, in more than 50 years. Daniel Norber, a 45-year-old dual US-Israeli citizen, will occupy the Nassau County seat bordering Queens that was once represented by Democratic state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli. Norber got a big assist from President-elect Donald Trump at the top of the ticket. Trump carried the 16th Assembly District by more than 2,000 votes over Vice President Kamala Harris.

Democrats looking for a boost in crossover voters might want to politely reject endorsement by former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who became a Democratic Party surrogate after endorsing nominee Kamala Harris in September. Cheney-endorsed Susan Wild and John Avlon lost their closely watched House races to a Republican challenger and Republican incumbent, respectively. Pennsylvania three-term incumbent Wild made a series of blunders in her campaign, including sending contradictory letters to pro-Israel and pro-Palestine constituents and mocking a Republican stronghold in her district in a leaked conference call with fellow Democrats, the Washington Free Beacon reported. An allied labor union even...

An migrant who was arrested at the border for crossing illegally before being cut loose has been charged with raping a five-year-old girl on Long Island. Wilson Castillo Diaz, 26, of Westbury, is accused of raping the young victim at an undisclosed location on October 16, according to Nassau County Police. Diaz, who illegally crossed the US border near Rio Grande, Texas in April 2014, was arrested by US Border Patrol agents and then released.

A New York state trooper was shot in the leg during a traffic stop on a Long Island parkway Wednesday night, sources and authorities said. The shooting unfolded around 11:30 p.m. on the Southern State Parkway near Exit 17, according to state police and sources. The trooper had pulled over a black Dodge Charger and during the car stop they were shot by a person in the vehicle, according to sources.

New York Republican Congressman Anthony D'Esposito is in hot water after bombshell allegations that he had an affair with a woman and then put her on his taxpayer-funded payroll. According to the New York Times, the 42-year-old first-term lawmaker was having an affair with Devin Faas. It attributed news of the relationship to four people familiar with it. Last April, Faas started receiving $2,000 a month for a part-time job in his district office. The job came soon after D'Esposito also hired his longtime fiancée’s daughter to work as a special assistant in that same district office shortly after he...

The shift of two major New York City suburbs to the political right could be a boon for former President Trump on Election Day, according to insiders on both sides of the aisle. Traditionally purple, if not leaning blue, Long Island’s Nassau and Suffolk counties went solidly red in the 2022 midterms even though state voter rolls show Democrats outnumber Republicans in both places. And that may be a bellwether of where things are headed in similar communities around the country

Police "find explosives" in a car near Trump's rally site on Long Island ahead of his speech this evening — DailyMail

SNIP “Cuomo’s going for mayor. Can’t stop Cuomo from going for mayor. And no matter what anyone says about our current mayor he has done some good things. Could happen a candidate is some rich man — big money, wants importance, do good, get his name around — like maybe Ron Lauder. Or underestimated Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin. I’m more behind the scenes. I don’t get credit for things.” SNIP “Listen,” she told me, “My mother’s mother was abused. My mother uneducated. Raised three kids, some half siblings. Mom met dirt poor dad in Ireland in eighth grade. Life...

It’s Ms. Sun goes to Washington. The alleged Chinese spy who infiltrated the New York governor’s office was able to get into the White House — while under federal investigation, The Post has learned. Linda Sun’s tour of the Executive Mansion came just two months before the FBI raided her gaudy $3.5 million Long Island home as they wrapped up their case into her alleged work for Beijing. The May visit was facilitated by Sun’s former boss Queens Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), the congresswoman’s office confirmed Friday. Sun — a former high-ranking aide for Gov. Kathy Hochul and former Gov....

The Long Island mother accused of killing her young son in a wrong-way crash while she was driving high on methamphetamines had her license suspended for the 57th time during her arraignment Wednesday afternoon, prosecutors said. Suffolk County Judge Richard I. Horowitz ordered the suspension of Kerri Bedrick’s driver’s license until the conclusion of the case and held the 32-year-old in custody without bail after she pleaded not guilty to murder charges during her arraignment. Bedrick’s license was already suspended on Aug. 22 when she drove the wrong way on the Southern State Parkway around 2:15 a.m. and caused a...

A FORMER deputy chief of staff to New York Governor Kathy Hochul has been arrested by federal authorities. Linda Sun, 40, and her husband, Chris Hu, 41, were arrested on Tuesday morning at their home in Manhasset on Long Island, New York. Details of the charges Sun and Hu face have not been made public. The couple are expected to appear in Brooklyn Federal Court on Tuesday, according to NBC affiliate WNBC.

State troopers are set to announce charges against a Long Island mom for allegedly killing her 9-year-old son in a wrong-way crash while under the influence early Thursday. The mother – who has not been named publicly – was allegedly driving the wrong way on the Southern State Parkway at the time of the the four-car pileup near Exit 42 around 2:30 a.m., News12 reported.

On the second anniversary of her daughter’s brutal death, Evelyn Rodriguez returned to the Long Island, New York, spot where she was killed. The sun shone brightly as she lay candles, balloons and a large floral wreath next to a grinning photograph of 16-year-old Kayla Cuevas. Hours later, 50-year-old Rodriguez learned that the vigil she’d left in honor of Kayla had gone. She returned to the scene and – after a brief altercation – Rodriguez was run over by the woman who had dismantled her daughter’s memorial.

True to form, the left is back to employing criminal vandalism to censor the views of others. My husband and I live in a Long Island suburb. As we near Election Day, Trump 2024 flags are appearing on our block. Last week, the flag on a house directly across the street, as well as a flag hanging on the home of a recent widow were defaced, ripped totally in half, and pulled down. My “God Bless Trump 2024” flag remained intact. The person doing the vandalism probably didn’t see ours hanging from a pole. That was until last night. This...

Human remains were found behind a Long Island home improvement store Tuesday afternoon, officials said. The grisly discovery was made after cops received a 911 call for a possible body found in a wooded area behind Lowe’s at 700 Dibblee Drive in Garden City at 2:19 p.m., according to Nassau County Police. When police arrived at the scene, they found the human remains near an abandoned encampment, according to cops. The cause of death will be determined by the Medical Examiner’s office, authorities said.

A former aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul reportedly had her $3.5 million Long Island home raided by the FBI early Tuesday. The feds carried out the pre-dawn search at the five-bedroom property where Linda Sun, one of Hochul’s former deputy chiefs of staff, lives in a gated community in Manhasset, the New York Times reported. The reason for the raid wasn’t immediately clear. Neither Sun, 40, nor her husband, Chris Hu, 41, have been accused of any wrongdoing and no arrests were made, sources told the outlet.

These days, summer in New York means fun in the sun — and blood in the water. There were 13 reports of shark bites recorded on Long Island in just the past two years, a disturbing trend experts say is here to stay even with New Yorker’s 1 in 4 million chance of getting nibbled on by a sea predator. “It’s a new norm that people are familiar with now — shark interaction occurring on the beaches here on Long Island specifically,” Frank Quevedo, an environmental scientist and executive director of the South Fork Natural History Museum, told The Post....

Recent high school graduate Suborno Isaac Bari, 12, plans to start studying math and physics at New York University in the fall, but he's already got his ambitious sights set on beginning a doctoral program. "I hope to graduate college at 14 in spring 2026," said Suborno, who recently became the youngest graduate from his Long Island high school.