Charles Lane

WSHU’s Charles Lane spoke with Chris Gelardi, an investigative reporter at New York Focus, who obtained documents showing how the New York State Police have been using an array of programs that sift through mass quantities of social media information including from Twitter and Facebook.

Suffolk County Comptroller John Kennedy said more than 200 taxpayers were mistakenly sent tax arrears notices because of a software problem.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said the cyberattack that has plagued the county for the last four months started much sooner — as early as December of last year.

A fifth of Suffolk County residents live in poverty according to a legislative report.

In a hearing about Nassau County’s jail this week, lawmakers focused their questions on staffing levels, cutting costs and increasing visits for families.

Nassau County lawmakers will hear testimony Wednesday on a staffing shortage at the county’s jail that critics say has created a frustrating and restrictive visiting policy — with no weekend visits, no televisits for family and evening visits just two days a week.

Nearly 14% of New Yorkers live in poverty, which is above the national average according to a report by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

A Suffolk County judge sentenced Michael Valva 25 years to life for the murder of his 8-year-old son, Thomas.

Convicted serial killer Richard Cottingham admitted in court to killing five Long Island women in the 1960s and 1970s.

Suffolk County will begin notifying nearly 26,000 county employees that their Social Security numbers may have been exposed in the cyberattack in September.