Lawrence Striegel

A sympathetic businessman saved a 17-pound lobster — estimated to be 70 or more years old — from the boiling pot at The Dock Restaurant in Waterford, and then set it free in Long Island Sound.

Neil Armstrong and Lance Armstrong, a tale of two heroes

Pulitzer winner Sara Ganim tells Long Island students how she broke the Penn State scandal.

Cheers to town Supervisor Larry Cantwell of East Hampton, Long Island, N.Y., who won’t plaster his name on public signs.

Mark A. Torres doesn’t mind picking at history’s old wounds. A labor lawyer and novelist, Torres was writing a cold-case murder mystery situated on the North Fork in 2014 when he learned about deadly

Oluwatoyin Adewumi had a problem. As she and her son Tanitoluwa, then 10, strode through a busy Chicago airport in August, other travelers kept stopping them to ask about the shiny 4-foot-tall trophy

Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday on Thursday is a milestone for an icon of equality, but it is surrounded by family squabbles over his future burial place and his fortune.

AARP and VITA offer free tax return prep to seniors and others.

In Nassau and Suffolk counties, the surge in popularity has spawned new groups and energized an existing assortment of clubs and school and library programs. "We have seen a lot of new faces," says one chess tournament organizer.