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Mike Pelfrey put together another solid effort on the mound to extend his unbeaten streak to 11 games, as the New York Mets downed the St. Louis Cardinals, 7-2, in the first of three weekend games at Shea Stadium.

Authorities say an 18-year-old man is missing and his 22-year-old cousin is dead after going into the waters of Long Beach.

Police say 54 people suffered minor injuries when two school buses crashed on I-95 in Westchester County.

Long Island officials are reopening more than 80 beaches just in time for the weekend.

Police said a young man has died while swimming at a beach in Long Island's Hamptons.

A day after it was discovered a veteran assemblyman is being investigated for possession of child pornography, legislative leaders sought to install filters to block inappropriate material from being viewed on legislative computers.

ALBANY, N.Y. -- The panel that charged former Gov. Eliot Spitzer 's aides with breaking the law in a political scandal may investigate if Spitzer was behind a pattern of obstacles that delayed the initial probe.

Authorities say surprise checks of nearly 50 construction cranes around New York City have uncovered no unlicensed operators.

New Jersey, eager to continue getting revenue from its 127 miles of tourist-friendly ocean beaches, has generally inspired its elected officials to oppose offshore oil drilling.

An apartment building's second blaze in six weeks hurts 17 people, two critically, in what a city councilman called a major explosion Friday.

Billionaires shell out hundreds of millions for oceanfront homes, lobsters cost $85 a pound and luxury stores line the streets, but East Hampton is not immune to the slowest U.S. economy since 2001, according to Bloomberg.

Authorities say an 80-year-old New Jersey man has died from injuries suffered when his wife hurled a cocktail glass and struck him in the head.

Suffolk County police have arrested a man who they say was speeding past a police-led funeral procession on the Long Island Expressway for a 41-year-old firefighter who drowned this week.

A Brooklyn man ends up in a psych ward after he breaks into three apartments to rescue a cat he swears was stuck in the wall, reports The Brooklyn Paper.

Thousands of Miley Cyrus fans swarmed Rockefeller Plaza for a glimpse of the teen star as she performed on the Today Show. See her performance and Chopper4 pictures of the crowd.

NEW YORK -- A once-feared Haitian paramilitary leader has been convicted in a New York mortgage fraud scheme to cheat lenders out of $1.7 million. A Brooklyn jury found Emmanuel "Toto" Constant guilty on Friday of fraud and grand larceny.

BARNSTABLE, Mass. -- A Massachusetts judge has freed a Cape Cod man accused of using a baseball bat to assault a New York man because he thought he was a Yankees fan.

MINEOLA, N.Y. -- An accountant faces up to nine years in prison after admitting he stole $1.16 million from a Long Island business to finance cocaine and gambling.

An argument between two drivers on an LIE entrance ramp ends with a fractured pelvis, police say.