Belle Terre News

Over the past few years, several local garden clubs have initiated a Street Garden Recognition Program.

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The man who former Belle Terre resident Martin Tankleff said bludgeoned Tankleff's parents - a crime for which Tankleff was convicted but later freed - was charged Thursday with a petty crime: stealing a PlayStation 2 console.

A Belle Terre youth cut his parents' throats and bludgeoned them with a barbell because they had spoiled his summer and would not let him stay home alone when they took a planned cruise and vacation in Florida , prosecutors said yesterday.

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A man who spent 17 years in prison in the 1988 murders of his parents before a court overturned the conviction has graduated from a Long Island college.

Clad in a black cap and gown, Martin Tankleff looked like any other graduate on the Hofstra University football field, where a blustery wind and light rain quickened the pace of Sunday's commencement.

Despite being a chilly and somewhat dry spring, plants are definitely showing signs of life.

About five years ago, Louise Hershberger, RN, had Friday night duty at the end of a very full and hectic week.

Mar 31, 2009 10:41 pm US/Eastern Reporting Lou Young PORT JEFFERSON, N.Y. Police say a Long Island gymnastics coach was doing more than teaching the uneven bars and balance beam.

Attorneys for Martin Tankleff say they're preparing a lawsuit accusing law enforcers of civil rights violations.

Serving Port Jefferson, Port Jefferson Station and Belle Terre. The editor, Dave Willinger, can be reached at 751-7744, or by email View this week's issue of the PORT TIMES RECORD Barnum traffic study under way by DOT 11:54 AM The Department of Transportation is conducting a traffic study at Barnum Avenue and 25A in Port Jefferson.

"It all started back in the second grade at the Setauket School," said renowned local artist Louise Gnia Brett, "when I went up to the easel, painted a black coach pulled by four horses, felt such tremendous ...

SUFFOLK COUNTY Two people lost their lives in separate auto accidents on Long Island on Sunday.

A 20-year-old driver was killed and two others injured Sunday night in a car crash in Belle Terre, police said.

Tuesday Syndicated advice columnist Amy Dickinson, whose column appears in Newsday, reads from her book "The Mighty Queens of Freeville" . It's the story of how Dickinson adapted to single parenthood and the ...

Brookhaven voters packed the Middle Country Public Library in Selden Monday night as they came to size up the two candidates competing to replace Brian Foley as town supervisor.

A Craigslist prostitution sting by Suffolk County police, with the cooperation of a Long Island hotel, led to the arrests Wednesday of a Manhattan man and two women from the Bronx whose online ads offered ...

Despite frigid weather, more than 60 people showed up at Book Revue in Huntington last Thursday to hear authors Richard Firstman and Jay Salpeter discuss their new book, "A Criminal Injustice: A True Crime, A ...

The Port Jefferson Free Library elects a new trustee Wednesday, Jan. 21, to fill the seat being vacated by Walter Munsch, who is stepping down after years of service.