Human skeletal remains have been found on Long Island, New York, authorities said Saturday. The same police department has been involved in the discovery of at least 10 other sets of human remains about 40 miles from the latest site.
For two and a half years, Samantha Garvey has immersed herself in New York's Long Island salt marshes -- prodding, examining and questioning, all in the name of science.
The 40-year-old unemployed tow-truck driver who confessed to a firebombing spree on New Year's Day is apparently no stranger to confinement.
The mother of Shannan Gilbert said Tuesday that police botched an investigation into her daughter's death and the apparent murders of other victims on Long Island, New York, and she threatened to file a lawsuit against Suffolk County Police if the FBI doesn't take over the case.
CNN's Susan Candiotti takes a look at a new theory about a string of unsolved murders on Long Island, New York.
The pocketbook of a New Jersey woman whose disappearance in 2010 led authorities to the discovery of 10 sets of human remains across two Long Island, New York, counties has been found, police said Wednesday.
After a nearly year-long investigation, police say they now believe 10 sets of human remains uncovered along a desolate stretch of Long Island, New York, beach are linked to a single killer.
As education scandals go, the news that students at some of the best high schools on Long Island paid others to take their College Board tests seems mild. The Long Island scandal pales behind the sex scandal at Penn State.
A college student is accused of accepting thousands of dollars to take the SAT exam for New York high school students.
A sudden downpour in Baltimore shut down Amtrak train service Monday morning and brought reports of flash floods that isolated emergency vehicles and caused at least one neighborhood evacuation.
Kaj Larsen explores a possible link between unsolved murders in Atlantic City and Long Island.
Police have arrested Long Island resident David Laffer in the deaths of four people shot inside a pharmacy Sunday morning.
New York authorities are searching for a gunman wanted in the killings of four people shot to death inside a Long Island pharmacy, police said.
Suffolk County Police have upped the ante in their search for a killer or killers who apparently dumped their victims along a remote stretch of beach in Long Island, New York.
Thirteen people were injured after high winds sent a bounce house airborne. This video has no audio.
An official says four new sets of human remains discovered on a Lond Island beach aren't linked to a serial killer.
The four sets of human remains most recently discovered on a Long Island beach don't appear to be related to four others discovered nearby that have been linked to a suspected serial killer, the Suffolk County district attorney said Monday.
Police divers returned to a section of a Long Island, New York, bay on Wednesday in their search for clues in the mysterious deaths of at least eight people.
A bone fragment found by divers during an investigation into the discovery of at least eight bodies on Long Island is not from a human, police said Tuesday.
As they worked to determine if new bones found off Long Island, New York, were human -- and possibly those of victims of a suspected serial killer believed to have targeted sex workers -- tests were underway Monday to match up identities with at least four other sets of discovered remains.
Police scramble to piece together clues from bodies found on a Long Island beach. CNN's Joe Johns reports.
The mother of a woman police identified as one of eight found dead on an isolated strip of waterfront property on Long Island, New York, told CNN that a man using the victim's cell phone made taunting calls and claimed he killed 24-year-old Melissa Barthelemy.
CNN's Jason Carroll meets up with a former detective who helped find one of America's most infamous serial killers.
Police and FBI agents finished searching 18 "spots of interest" in Long Island, New York on Thursday without uncovering additional evidence in their investigation of a possible serial killer.
CNN's Allan Chernoff talks to a man who says he saw Shannan Gilbert alive when she came pounding on his door for help.
Criminologist Casey Jordan talks about serial killings on Long Island, New York. What do clues say about the killer?
As police on New York's Long Island were sending dive teams to search for clues in a string of suspected serial killings Wednesday, area residents were trying to come to terms with the grisly crimes.
While the hunt continues for a Long Island, New York, serial killer, police have recovered the remains of a ninth body.
"He's got to come up with a new plan," says an expert; as many as 10 bodies were found
Remains found Monday on Long Island, New York, have been identified as being human, police said Tuesday.
Police searching a New York beach for evidence in a suspected serial-killer case say they discovered a set of bones.
Police are investigating remains found on Long Island near where the corpses of four women were discovered last year.
Police say they have discovered more human remains on a Long Island, New York, beach near where the corpses of four women were discovered last year.
Police in New York believe the four women found dead in Long Island are the work of a serial killer.
Police say they have identified three bodies found on Long Island, New York, last month, and the deaths may be the work of a serial killer.
Hundreds of people might have been exposed to hepatitis A while receiving communion on Christmas Day, Long Island officials said Monday.
A propane gas tank leak that prompted the evacuations of an estimated 900 homes in Shirley, New York, was contained, officials said Saturday night.
Searching for clues to the disappearance of a missing woman, authorities made a grisly discovery: the bodies of four women in various stages of decomposition, stuffed into bushes along an isolated strip of waterfront property on Long Island.
Police have found the remains of four people on a secluded Long Island beach.
Below is an excerpt from Soledad O'Brien's memoir "The Next Big Story," published November 2 by Penguin Books. This excerpt is from the first chapter of the memoir. Read another exerpt from the book.
At a recent dinner party, my friend's roommate poured guests another glass of white wine. It smelled crisp, cold, and juicy -- clearly the sort of wine that prickles the gums, softens the face and transforms a summer evening into one soft-hued hum.
Long Island may be far from the Death Star, but that didn't stop Darth Vader from paying a less-than-friendly visit to a bank in East Setauket, New York.
A 25-foot dead whale washed ashore on New York's Jones Beach Island on Thursday morning, a New York State Parks official said.
The pilot of a small aircraft was practicing landing when the plane crashed into an office building and burst into flames in Long Island, New York, Saturday afternoon, authorities said.
The young al Qaeda fighter must have stood out among the others creeping up a mountain on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, trying to get a good vantage on a U.S. base.
A Revolution Muslim rally on the streets of New York in October 2009.
Jurors on Monday convicted a Long Island man of manslaughter as a hate crime in the death of an immigrant from Ecuador.
Closing arguments are under way in the trial of a Long Island man charged with murder as a hate crime in the death of a Latin American immigrant.
Three people have been killed after a boat ran aground off Long Island, New York.
If the two forks of Long Island's East End were sisters, the North Fork would undoubtedly be the innocent, modest one.
Wall Street has been on a tear in the past few months, but Main Street is facing a much more jagged road to recovery. While small companies are not cutting staff as quickly as they had been, the job losses continue to mount.
A 26-foot-long dying shark washed ashore Tuesday on a Long Island beach, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation said.
Landing a job is the aim of the Long Island Breakfast Club but its approach is unconventional. Christine Romans reports.
An elderly man lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a Long Island building where a Hanukkah festival was under way.
At least seven people have been swept away by strong ocean currents in the New York City-Long Island area.
Three swimmers drowned and three were missing Saturday in two days of treacherous ocean currents at Long Island and New York City beaches
Get a sneak peek at the pop star posing with Max and Emme on the cover of this week's PEOPLE
Gas prices rose more than 9 cents over the past two weeks, to a national average of $3.20 per gallon of self-serve regular, a survey said Sunday.
A middle school student from Brooklyn died Thursday, probably from the staph infection MRSA, according to the New York City Health Department.
"Two minutes!" yells our course coordinator.
Tim Kelly, the general manager of Major League Lacrosse's Lizards, slumps down on a long metal bench on the sidelines of Long Island's Mitchell Stadium, takes a deep breath and stares into the sky, lit particularly bright by a full moon on this muggy Satuday evening in July. Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion is blaring over the loudspeakers in the background, but the song's title couldn't be further from the reality for Kelly and the Lizards, who have seen any hopes they had at earning a wildcard playoff bid vanish when the Denver Outlaws capped their dramatic comeback victory with a two-point goal in sudden-death overtime.
Teens charged with attack plot
Police said a teenager wrote in a journal, "I will start a chain of terrorism in the world," and outlined a plot to detonate a bomb and kill students at his high school in Bohemia, New York.
The price of gasoline has hit a new record high, averaging $3.07 for a gallon of self-serve regular in the United States, a survey reported Sunday.
Winter storms stir up a bounty of prize shell specimens on the shore. Coastal Living magazine rounds up 10 of the best beaches to hunt for them.
FSB: Offbeat Schoolsupdated: Fri Nov 03 2006 09:21:00
Some people go back to school to study the great books. Others would rather learn how to throw a 14-inch knife, or hammer yellow-hot steel into semi-useful shapes or whip up a chocolate ganache tha...
FSB: 6 offbeat schoolsupdated: Thu Nov 02 2006 09:54:00
Throw knives! Be a spy! Learn some unusual skills in these classes.
Retail gasoline prices fell nearly 1.5 cents during the past two weeks, to $2.93 a gallon of self-serve regular, a national survey said Sunday.
Each day brings fresh evidence of peaking home prices. But, with the right strategies, sellers can still command top dollar.
Many residents of high-priced housing markets around the country are cashing out and moving to more affordable areas.
Golfing in the Hamptons -- sounds pretty hoity-toity, doesn't it? And well it should.
I don't want to alarm anyone, but gigantic animals are invading the nation. Hundreds of enormous beasts-turned-advertisements are stalking the nation's highways and byways, and they're beaconing travelers to enter gift shops, restaurants and other destinations.
A sport utility vehicle slammed into a tree and burst into flames, killing three teenage cousins attending a weekend religious retreat.
CNNMoney: Happily ever afterupdated: Tue Mar 23 2004 10:13:00
Dear Armchair Millionaire: I'm getting married early next year and would like to know exactly what my future spouse and I should be doing to make sure that we combine our finances properly. -- C.A., Long Island
There was a shortage of regular guys on the road. At least that's how it seemed to six young Russians driving on the Southern State Parkway. They had left the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn--kn...
Fortune: Celebrity Leniencyupdated: Mon Nov 11 2002 00:01:00
Who says celebs get off easy? Lizzie Grubman was just locked up on Long Island for her Mercedes mistake, and the SEC handed Martha notice of a suit (criminal charges may follow), Then there's forme...
If you're going to dislocate your shoulder, there's no better place to do it than Schmitt Field in Rochester, Minn. It's a stone's throw from the Mayo Clinic, which is where Brent "Skinny" Peterson...
Dave Catalano, the director of Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, N.Y., and the gatekeeper of its acclaimed Black course, should be getting combat pay. It's 5:23 P.M. on a recent Friday, and inste...
Want a hobby that enables you to learn a craft, spend time outdoors, and impress your friends? You have a lot of company. The number of wineries in the U.S. has doubled in the past 20 years to more...
In early August, I was out to dinner with my husband and two other couples at a trendy place on Long Island. We'd had a good time, and an even better meal, and we were busily scraping up the last c...
Our Valentine's Day getaway didn't quite work out as planned. Like thousands of other Americans, my wife and I were victims of the sickout by American Airlines pilots. I've been stranded by strikes...
Newspapers should have been dead by now. They lost nearly 5.5 million subscribers between 1986 and 1996, and pundits declared the end was near. Young people didn't read, they said. The Net would re...
Muriel Siebert, the doyenne of discount equities brokers, was driving out onto Long Island one Friday night when her car, a vintage Mercedes 350SL, got a flat tire. She pulled to the side of the ro...
Some people think the term "investigative reporter" is redundant, that all reporters should, by definition, be investigators. But in the real world of journalism, that's not the way it works. Just ...
Stocks of companies based in Cincinnati outperformed those of 23 other metropolitan areas in the third quarter, according to the exclusive MONEY/ Nordby Cities Index. It is composed of a series of ...
One of the tenets of sound investing is to buy what you know. And the new, exclusive MONEY/Nordby Cities Index of leading stocks in 24 major metropolitan areas shows how great the opportunities can...
The houses are identical: four bedrooms, 2,600 square feet and located in neighborhoods where families typically have incomes of about $75,000 -- roughly the median for MONEY subscribers. One is in...
From California to New York's Long Island, this land is once again made for home buyers and sellers. You may not see strong evidence in the next sales statistics -- it takes 45 to 90 days for the d...
As a good-will gesture, Irv Klein and Jonah Kaufman hired several mentally handicapped adults to work in their 13 McDonald's restaurants on Long Island, New York, last year. The experience was so s...
Fortune: Terminal illnessupdated: Mon Jun 20 1988 00:01:00
Legislation aimed at protecting workers who use video display terminals (VDTs) may have finally found a home in Suffolk County, on New York's Long Island. If signed into law by the county executive...
Fortune: In vino paupertasupdated: Mon Apr 25 1988 00:01:00
The number of bonded wineries in the U.S. has more than doubled, to over 1,400, in the past dozen years, partly because burned-out executives have been trading in the big-city life for pastoral toi...
With the average price of a first house at $81,000, many Americans feel locked out of the American dream. The percent of annual income that first-time home buyers must fork over for mortgage costs ...
The wandering bargeload of Long Island garbage that took an unexpected Caribbean cruise recently was no anomaly. The U.S. is rapidly running out of safe dump sites, and stiff government regulations...
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