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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.

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.

Eastern Long Island and parts of Virginia got two feet of snow, and records were set in Washington and Baltimore.

A Long Island mother was very drunk, with an extra-large bottle of vodka in her car, and was smoking marijuana before she caused a wrong-way crash on a New York highway that killed her, her young daughter and six others, police said Tuesday.

The FBI says the owner of a Long Island investment firm has turned himself in to face accusations he cheated clients out of more than $100 million.

Get ready for fondue-making, long johns-wearing, bone-chilling weather, with the coldest temperatures since 2005 on the way.