RIVERHEAD, N.Y., July 21 (UPI) -- Investigators in New York state are trying to trace the owner of a pit bull and the person who tied up the animal and set it on fire.

NEW YORK, July 9 (UPI) -- A New York beautician has been charged with numerous counts of animal cruelty after 19 cocker spaniels and 200 pounds of their feces was found in his home.

SAYVILLE, N.Y., Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Animal control officials in a New York suburb were looking for an out-of-state zoo that wants a dangerous monitor lizard captured under a backyard deck.

NASSAU, N.Y., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A mobile hospital bus, ambulances and a helicopter, and 30 rescuers made a lightning raid and rescue to save 182 near-frozen reptiles on Long Island, N.Y.

NEW YORK, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- New York authorities are searching for whoever viciously killed nearly 40 friendly ducks on Long Island, the New York Post said Tuesday.

RIVERHEAD, N.Y., April 9 (UPI) -- An exotic cat that briefly scared residents of Long Island's Suffolk County is back in his suburban home, the New York Daily News reported Friday.