Copiague News

Suffolk County has closed Tanner Park Beach in Copiague to bathing "due to the finding of bacterial levels in excess of acceptable criteria," the county's health department said Tuesday in a news release.

Suffolk County has reopened Tanner Park Beach but closed Lake Ronkonkoma in Islip to bathing Humayun J. Chaudhry, the Suffolk health commissioner, announced Thursday that the beach closure issued for Tanner Park Beach in Copiague has been rescinded after water tested within acceptable levels.

Two more Suffolk County beaches have been closed to bathing after bacterial levels were found to be too high, the county health department said Tuesday.

A former University of Vermont fraternity president who helped run a cocaine ring from the organization's house was spared a prison term Monday by a judge who called him naive and a bit player.

Two small children suffered serious injuries when a car hit the vehicle they were in as their mother was making a U-turn. Suffolk Police said the woman was making the turn at a Copiague intersection shortly after midnight Sunday.

Two young children were seriously injured in a vehicle crash involving an unlicensed driver in Copiague early Sunday morning, Suffolk police said.

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The New York state attorney general says he plans to sue a Long Island lawyer who allegedly collected pensions from six school districts.

A week ago, Anthony Cavasinni and Ryan Harrigan could have stopped at a red light and turned no heads.

Jun 10, 2009 6:05 pm US/Eastern 1 of 1 Gary Paulino was killed by an alleged drunk driver just two weeks before he was set to graduate from high school.

A collision between a car and a minivan on Long Island has left a teenage boy dead and a woman arrested on charges of drunken driving.

A Long Island man has been accused of stealing an 89-year-old woman's purse. Louis Mancini, 21, of Copiague, took the purse Friday from a shopping cart in the Merrineck Shopping Center in Copiague but was immediately caught by two employees of a nearby supermarket and held until officers arrived, police said.

Two men apprehended an Amityville man who had stolen a purse from an 89-year-old woman at a shopping center yesterday, Suffolk police said.

Two brothers wanted to steal valuable metal wire they saw on the ground next to Suffolk police headquarters in Yaphank, police said, but their efforts Thursday only gained them access to a night in a steel cell, and the possibility of many more.

From left, Pamela Corbin of Malverne High School, Copiague High School principal Walter O'Connell and Copiague senior Roy Kirton.

Masked gunmen broke down the rear door of an occupied Hewlett home Friday, then fled in a stolen vehicle, police said, but were arrested an hour later by Nassau police.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand visited a Super Stop & Shop in West Babylon on Friday for an economic a oeSenate at Your Supermarket,a and got hit with several questions on unrelated topics.

A bicyclist was critically injured in Copiague Monday when he was struck by a hit-and run vehicle, police said.

Manhattan: We most heartily welcome Archbishop Timothy Dolan , and bid farewell to our beloved Edward Cardinal Egan .

Hauppauge As Long Islanders heard about the devastating earthquake that struck central Italy this week, many of them had the same question: What can I do to help? Suffolk county officials who feel the same way are now coordinating relief efforts on Long Island, reaching out to businesses and organizations to contribute their time and services.