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Brooklyn 'sA scandal-plagued court system gets a new black eye in a scathing audit that found the borough's public administrator's office riddled with "mismanagement and laziness." The city controller's office uncovered shoddy recordkeeping, suspicious real estate deals and auctions run by a shadowy company that vanished when auditors started ...

Dear Dog Lady, I recently have been reading how some animals were bred for specific reasons.

A fast-moving fire destroyed two neighboring homes in the Fire Island Pines on May 20.

May 14, 2009 5:47 pm US/Eastern Reporting Jennifer McLogan FIRE ISLAND, N.Y. While New York struggles with crushing deficits, layoffs, cutbacks, tax increases and transit hikes, an exclusive Fire Island seasonal village is hoping to qualify as a "distressed community" for your taxpayer dollars.

Elected and agency officials joined coastal engineers and homeowner representatives on April 17 in a tour of a beach nourishment project Fire Island homeowners.

Fire Island residents are spending about $23 million to restore their beaches. The project that started in January ends April 25 and will have added more than two million cubic yards of sand to beaches used by 11 of the islanda s communities.

A months-long standoff between Fire Island National Seashore and nearby residents over a tick control device was resolved yesterday, just in time to resume research this spring.

Two men who claim they were arrested after seeking the Peekskill police's help during a road-rage incident are suing the city for civil rights violations.

Satellite photo of Fire Island. At a cost of $36 million, work began this week to replenish narrow beaches on Fire Island with sand dredged from Moriches Inlet and offshore.