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Gov. David A. Paterson plans this week to send a bill to the legislature capping at 4 percent yearly increases in school property taxes but maintaining school budget votes, a key departure from recommendations made public Tuesday by a state commission studying tax relief.

Suffolk County authorities Tuesday said they are offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to an arrest in the murder of a Central Islip man.

A former East Hampton Town Board member said she was merely expressing her First Amendment right to free speech when security guards grabbed her and escorted her from a meeting of the Democratic National Committee Sunday in Washington, D.C.

Three men have been arrested for conspiring to hire a hit man to murder five Suffolk County residents in a quest for vengence, prosecutors said .

A Uniondale man was arrested at his home Monday evening after he attacked another man with a steak knife, police said.

In what may be the first warm weather tragedy of the year, an 11-year-old boy drowned in a backyard pool in Brentwood Monday after he tried to swim in the deep end of the pool with two friends, police sources and neighbors said.

With the Mineola owner of 23 cats and one dog being evicted from his home, the authorities said Tuesday that they are looking for people to volunteer to adopt the animals.

The divorced parents of actress Lindsay Lohan briefly appeared in a Nassau County courtroom Tuesday morning over reported allegations that Michael Lohan has not had enough access to his two youngest children.

Paul Brennan never handled a short sale -- and barely ever used the phrase -- until about six months ago.

In the early morning hours on the day before Thanksgiving last year, a young Merrick woman strangled her new husband with an electrical cord.