Suffolk County

Investigators announced Friday that after nearly three decades, the victim known as ‘Fire Island Jane Doe’ was identified as 34-year-old Karen Vergata, a presumed sex worker who went missing on Feb. 14, 1996.

Suffolk County police say the 54-year-old grandmother forgot to drop the toddler off at her day care center in Smithtown on Long Island on Monday and went to work, leaving the girl in a car seat inside a Jeep Cherokee.

A man from Long Island is recovering from hypothermia after treading water for about five hours in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday. Police in Suffolk County said a 63-year-old from Copiague went for a swim at Cedar Beach in Babylon around 5 a.m. When he went out into the open water, police said, he was pulled out by the current….

Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney outlined some of the evidence against Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann, including graphic internet searches and multiple burner phones.

A Long Island man is facing charges for unsportsmanlike conduct off the baseball field where his team was playing, as he allegedly assaulted a teenager at a nearby skate park in a dispute over a foul ball.

The 82-year-old woman had reportedly ‘died,’ at a nearby nursing home.

Two senior women and a man got stuck in a gaping sinkhole in a Long Island front yard Thursday, authorities say. Suffolk County cops say they initially responded to a home in Huntington Station just after 6 a.m. for a report of a woman stuck in a hole in the ground. When they arrived, they found her — and two…

A Long Island cable repairman allegedly helped an armed suspect hide in his company van from police officers looking for him. But that choice is also what led to both men getting arrested — because the work van had a camera inside that recorded their entire conversation.

A Long Island home has been condemned and its owner arrested after more than 300 animals and 100,000 roaches were allegedly found on her property, officials said Tuesday.

A Massachusetts woman accused of yelling racist slurs at a neighbor and vandalizing their property appeared in court Monday. Angela Foley, 53, of Winthrop, was arraigned in the East Boston Division of Boston Municipal Court. She ducked cameras as reporters asked her about the civil rights violation and property destruction charges she is facing. “Nervous and scared this lady has…

A woman is accused of using racial slurs while attacking her neighbor in Winthrop, the latest incident involving allegations of discrimination in the Boston area.

A woman in Winthrop, Massachusetts, is facing civil rights and malicious destruction of property charges after an alleged incident involving vandalism and racist slurs. Angela Foley, 53, was arrested Saturday and is accused of vandalizing her neighbor’s vehicle, smashing a neighbor’s window and shouting racist slurs, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. Foley is charged with violating...

Incumbent Kevin Hayden and Boston City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo have both been on damage control in the recent weeks leading up to Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Suffolk County’s District Attorney

A fatal shooting in Dorchester took the lives of two residents, and another person seriously injured.

Two people are dead and one person is injured after a house party in Dorchester ended with gunshots.

Three people were shot, two fatally, in Dorchester overnight, the Suffolk County DA’s office confirmed.

Police in Boston responded to an early morning shooting in Dorchester in which three people were shot, two fatally, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office confirmed. Boston police have identified the two men killed in the shooting as Tefan Ivy, 32, of Brockton and Jermaine Daye, 23, of Randolph. The third man shot is expected to survive, Boston police said…

Boston City Councilor and candidate for Suffolk County District Attorney Ricardo Arroyo has filed a civil lawsuit against the City of Boston, in an attempt to gain access to police records pertaining to a 2005 investigation. The suit follows a Boston Globe report that uncovered two sexual assault investigations when Arroyo was a teenager. Arroyo says he only learned recently...

Arroyo is suing the city to get access to files on years-old allegations of sexual assault.

Boston City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo, running for district attorney in Suffolk County, says he only learned recently that he was twice investigated over sexual assault allegations. Citing police and school records, the Boston Globe reported Tuesday that in 2005, a high school student told police Arroyo, then her classmate, had sexually assaulted her. A second teen told police in 2007…