Amityville News

Amityville schools Superintendent John Williams, who led the district as it brought all its schools off state "needs improvement" lists for the first time in more than seven years, will retire at the end of the academic year.

Transit bus heads down 35th Street in Copiague on its way to a bus stop in the Big Lots shopping center on Sunrise Highway.

Four families lived in a home on Washington Avenue in Wyandanch that was ravaged by fire Wednesday, and all 11 occupants escaped to safety, although they were left homeless on the day before Thanksgiving.

The strong gusting winds courtesy of a coastal storm on getaway day before Thanksgiving made driving a handful Wednesday morning, with motorists fighting at times to stay in their assigned travel lanes.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone releases and talks about the county's budget at his office in the Dennision Buiding in Hauppauge.

The former site of the Brunswick Hospital, where BH Realty proposed to develop a retail and commercial site that will be anchored by a proposed CVS Pharmacy.

Profile of the serial killer who massacred eight nurses in Chicago in 1966. We'll explore his life of crime and examine his manhunt and trial, which became the "O.J." of its time.

West Islip and Bay Shore residents wanting to help out needy families during the holiday season now have a new resource to tap as an Operation Christmas Child Relay Center has been setup at the Calvary Baptist Church at 1040 Union Boulevard.

We locked up our Unabomber. We locked onto Hakeemullah Mehsud. Your Amityville Horror needs to end.

A Suffolk County Court jury convicted Joseph DeFelice, 34, of second-degree murder, second-degree criminal facilitation and first-degree hindering prosecution.

Nassau County police on Tuesday night said four men were arrested for removing clothing from a donation bin in the Sunrise Mall parking lot.

Police charged Rashad Woolridge in connection with a shooting that occurred last month in North Amityville..

Babylon Town has made it illegal to be drunk in a public place or venue, such as a cabaret, and most Patch readers aren't very happy with the decision.

The North Amityville Fire Co. and Suffolk County police respond to a fatal accident involving a Newsday delivery driver from Central Islip who was killed early Monday when he lost control and crashed his box truck on Sunrise Highway in Copiague, police said.

New MTA Long Island Rail Road timetables will go into effect on Monday, November 11 with service improvements on tap for Babylon.

Don't hit the taps too hard next time your out for a drink nearby - the Town of Babylon has outlawed intoxication in public or at cabarets or dance halls.

Although there are many professional repair service centres offering services like mail in broken electronics and mail in cell phone repair.

Evidence photo displayed by Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice during a press conference on the indictment of LIRR employees for the theft and resale of copper wire.

Exelis has announced it is producing bomb carrier and ejection racks for the U.S. military's MQ-9B Predator/Reaper drones in Amityville, N.Y. More than 500 Exelis BRU-71/A units, which use compressed air instead of electro-explosive charges to deploy the weapons, will be provided under the $20 million contract from General Atomics Aeronautical ... (more)