Author: The Long Island Times

Briggs & Riley, a Hauppauge-based luggage brand, is holding its fifth annual charity luggage trade-in event throughout the month of February.

Ten Long Island health care providers will share $15.7 million in state funding to improve and expand their facilities and services.

The Town of Huntington announced plans to create additional parking spots and safety improvements in East Northport and Huntington Station.

Long Island Nets forward Mitch Creek made his NBA debut for the Brooklyn Nets in Friday night’s 109-99 victory over the New York Knicks after being called up by Brooklyn on a 10-day contract.

The Long Island Council of Churches, a Freeport-based emergency food and social service agency, received a $10,000 grant from the Nassau County Bar Association to support the nonprofit’s emergency food program.

A group of Long Island real estate brokers are making wishes come true for children with the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Doherty Enterprises, the franchisee for Panera Bread on Long Island, donated over $5,000 to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Long Island chapter.

A Long Island credit union held a beauty contest for pets as a way to help support pet owners in need.

Suffolk County Community College was awarded $1 million from New York State as part of the Energy to Lead Competition.

Brokers from RIPCO Real Estate participated in the Covenant House’s Real Estate Executive Sleep Out last Thursday, spending a night sleeping on a New York City street to raise money for homeless teens.