East Islip News

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.

VOTING 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Connetquot, Ruth C. Kinney, John F. Kennedy and Timber Point elementary schools.

Two East Islip men were arrested Wednesday by New York City police who found 42 cases of fireworks in the vehicle they were traveling in through Queens , police said.

May 16, 2009, Mineola , L.I. "I had this preconceived notion of Mark because of his friends," recalled Amanda.

Christian James Koehler, a 10-year-old East Islip boy who developed a rare type of brain cancer and fought a brave battle against the disease, died at home Friday night surrounded by family members.

Volunteer firefighters are barraging lawmakers with complaints about a bill from state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to streamline consolidation of fire districts and other local governments.

An Iraqi army private directs U.S. and Iraqi soldiers as they drive M1114 Humvees from the Taji Redistribution Property Assistance Team Humvee yard to the next staging point in March at Camp Taji, Iraq.

Scott R. Fernan, a New York City Police Officer, was presented with an award for heroism in the line of duty by the Law and Order Commitee of The Kings County American Legion, Brooklyn, New York.

As U.S. forces change over to the M1151 Humvee, they turn in the older M1114 vehicles to the Taji Redistribution Property Assistance Team here as a means of salvaging the vehicles.

Islip Do you remember the slogan: "To get a good job you need a good education?" An Albany-based policy group says there are good jobs in education, and good-paying jobs at that: with at least two Long Island teachers taking home $200,000 in base-salary and compensation.

Ten years ago Monday, when two students went on a killing spree at Columbine High School, Wendell Chu knew that schools nationwide would be forever changed.

Jim Morgo, who stepped down this month as Suffolk County deputy executive, Thursday will announce his plans to run with incumbent Democratic Councilman Christopher Bodkin for Islip Town Board even as two other Democrats prepare to launch competing bids, charging that the town's Democratic members of the board do not reflect geographic or racial ...

RIVERSIDE The Suffolk County jury considering criminal charges against a pair of Ocean Beach Village police department officers for the alleged beating of a New Jersey man on Fire Island in August 2005 reached a partial verdict Friday in Riverhead.

Two Ocean Beach police officers accused of beating a tourist so badly that his bladder ruptured were acquitted by a Suffolk County jury Friday of the top counts against them.

A former Suffolk County legislator is among five suspects arrested Wednesday on grand larceny charges by fraudulently obtaining more than $50 million dollars in mortgages on dozens of Southampton town homes.

Trish Bergin, the part-time News 12 anchor -- who many years ago dated Billy Joel -- has expressed interest in joining the crowded race for Suffolk's 10th legislative district seat.

Our favorite New York paper has made a haunting short film from surveillance camera footage of a kid casing, then tagging up a Staten Island deli .

Suffolk County police have arrested a 25-year-old woman in connection with the hit-and-run death of a pedestrian in East Islip.

The ruptured bladder a Manhattan tourist suffered while in the custody of Ocean Beach police wasn't caused by a beating but, rather, by falling down while drunk, the acting police chief's lawyer said in court ...

Southampton Elementary School will soon introduce "Kid Fitness" kits to its classrooms to supplement physical education classes and encourage healthy habits among students.