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Crime across Long Island has dropped by double digits. Compared to this time last year, shootings are down 44% and property crime dropped 16%.

Theft has increased 1800% since the program began in 2023, according to Department of Social Services Commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves.

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont said he is encouraged by the overall numbers, but property theft and carjackings remain high. The state is working to bring those, and ghost gun incidents, down.

Moses K. Johnson, a 63-year-old former Town of Huntington employee, was charged with grand theft for allegedly continuing to collect his deceased mother's pension for more than a year.

A suspect has been taken into custody on New York's Long Island in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders.

More than 70% of New Yorkers polled in a new survey from Siena College rank the state favorably on quality of education, healthcare and economic opportunities. But affordable housing and crime rates remain nagging issues as state budget negotiations continue.

New York State Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of a Medford man, who was killed by Suffolk County police officers last Wednesday.

Less than a week after two Connecticut police officers were killed in an ambush, U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes is calling for a national ban on assault weapons.

The Republican candidate for governor, Lee Zeldin, visited his favorite pizza shop near the State Capitol to talk about rising crime in the area.

The two candidates for governor in New York are doubling down on their priority issues in the race: crime and abortion.