Medium • April 2026

Dogfight Over the East End: Can a Black Hawk Pilot Ground the GOP’s Decade-Long Streak in NY-1?

If you are like me, you had to ask the internet who was running against Republican Rep. Nick LaLota in New York’s first congressional district — a district with razor-thin political margins.

Medium • October 2025

‘Any threat to journalism, I tend to almost take personally.’

I was in the News 12 newsroom when I got a push alert about Robert Redford dying at the age of 89. In that moment, I was taken back to summer 2008.I just quit my job selling and delivering dental supplies around Suffolk County. A few years earlier, I left the United States Postal Service as a letter carrier. It took me several years after graduating college to figure out who and what I wanted to be. But you have to get lost to get found.

Medium • October 2025

A brief history of time and Spaceplex: The rise and fall of Long Island’s most storied indoor…

No matter how many times you walked into Spaceplex — the family friendly fun zone in Suffolk that captured the hearts and minds of teens and pre-teens alike in the early 1990s — it was like bursting through the tunnel at the Super Bowl.

Medium • October 2025

DRAINED DRY: 400+ days since historic flooding ripped away Stony Brook’s sanctuary

Today, Sept. 25, 2025, is 402 days since Stony Brook’s Harbor Road and the dam keeping Mill Pond in place collapsed, emptying its millions of gallons of water into the Long Island Sound.I wasn’t there too often growing up about 25 minutes away near the heart of Smithto...

News 12 - Default • March 2026

Officials: Nearly 80 departments respond to wind-driven fires on eastern Long Island

About 80 fire departments from across Long Island responded Saturday afternoon to massive brush fires out east, one of which crossed the roadway at CR-31 near Gabreski Airport.

News 12 - Default • March 2026

Suffolk Legislature approves human trafficking bill that restricts hourly rates at hotels and motels

The Suffolk Legislature approved a bill Tuesday that will institute increased record-keeping requirements at hotels and motels, among other measures officials say will help combat human trafficking in the county.

News 12 - Default • March 2026

President Trump endorses Bruce Blakeman for governor of New York

In a post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon endorsed Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman for governor of New York – calling him “highly respected and very popular.”

News 12 - Long Island • January 2024

Alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann charged in death of 4th woman

Rex Heuermann, the accused Gilgo Beach serial killer, has been charged with murder in the killing of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who disappeared in 2007.

News 12 - Westchester • October 2023

Sources: Group of NY law enforcement officials, police chiefs in Israel during Hamas attack

A group of 20 to 30 police chiefs and other senior law enforcement officers from across Westchester, Long Island and New York City were in Israel Saturday when Hamas unleashed a deadly assault on Israel by land, air and sea.

News 12 - New Jersey • September 2023

Small plane crashes in wooded area near Ocean County Airport; crews work to contain wildfire

A small plane crashed Saturday night in a wooded area near the Ocean County Airport and may be responsible for a wildfire that sparked in the heavily wooded area.

October 2021

TWA FLIGHT 800 - 25 Years Later

George Vickers, the assistant chief with the Westhampton Beach Fire Department, received an unusual call 25 years ago about a fire on the ocean. At first, he thought it may have been a small plane or boat – but soon learned that the situation was much more catastrophic.

News 12 Long Island • June 2021

‘Family. School. Baseball.’ - Coach Michael S. McDermott Field officially dedicated in Kings Park

The JV and varsity Kings Park baseball teams took the field on Saturday, each donning Superman shirts with the name “McDermott” on the back, for an intersquad game – the first on what will forever be known as “Coach Michael S. McDermott Field.”

News 12 - Long Island • January 2021

Staff Picks: Rose's Pizza in Penn Station closes, hungry riders waiting for trains weep

Rob Howard, a Hicksville native, may have said it best in his online tribute: “You may have been in Manhattan, but you’ll always belong to Long Islanders.”

News 12 • August 2020

Battleground: The Sunrise Fire of 1995

The Sunrise Fire of 1995 turned day into night for those battling the flames – and it didn’t seem real to those who witnessed it.

News 12 • March 2020

Ghosts of Smith Haven: Sears’ closure sparks nostalgia for Suffolk's mallrats

The announcement of Sears closing at the Smith Haven Mall sparked a conversation in our newsroom – mostly because for many of us, that was and still is our mall.

News 12 • January 2020

'Miracle on Ice' turns 40: Fans thank Mike Eruzione at Book Revue signing

“If I sometimes get a little down, I just pop that tape in – and the best thing about it, every time I shoot, the puck goes in,” Mike Eruzione once told Al Michaels, who wrote the foreword to his new book.

And that goal has lifted the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” Team USA captain to a place he never dreamed was possible.

News 12 • December 2019

16 years later: Phish turns back the clock at Nassau Coliseum

Before leaving for my first ever Phish show on April 2, 1998 at the Nassau Coliseum, my mother gave me advice that I still heed to this day.

Queens Courier • October 2011

Making the Grade: Restauratuers say grading system is unfair

While the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene officials are cleaning up restaurants throughout the city, restaurant owners are claiming their wallets are being cleaned out at the same time.