East Patchogue News

CENTRAL ISLIP Suffolk County Police have arrested Michael Coffey, 20, of 802 Taylor Avenue in East Patchogue for the April 14 shooting of Jeffrey Langhorn, an 11-year-old boy, who was shot in the face.

A crash claimed the life of a Long Island teen and left another man in critical condition Monday night.

Urban fiction publisher Crystal Lacey Winslow started out wanting to become a writer and ended up a publisher .

Eight people on Fire Island were transported by helicopter and boat to local hospitals, where they were treated for respiratory and gastric distress after eating brownies the victims said were laced with ...

A collision at Route 30 and Third Avenue injured four people, with one driver ending up guarded in the hospital after he was revealed to be living in the country illegally, according to Galloway Township ...

Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives are still searching for clues in the murder of a 52-year-old carpenter from East Quogue, who was stabbed numerous times while walking on a dirt road in Medford on ...

In her nightmares, Melinda Llanes comes home to find her mother bludgeoned to death.

A Port Jefferson Station man was hit and killed by a car Sunday after he ran onto the roadway on Veterans Memorial Highway in Bohemia, the police said.

Talk about your Mac attacks. A Riverhead woman was charged Friday in two robberies and an attempted robbery at three fast-food restaurants -- a McDonald's, a Taco Bell and a Wendy's -- after she grabbed the ...

EAST PATCHOGUE Suffolk County Police have arrested two men in an East Patchogue home after a woman claimed she was taken by one of them against her will.

Two men have been arrested in a Long Island home where U.S. marshals who showed up with a drug warrant heard a woman crying for help and saying she'd been kidnapped.

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“I pulled over and immediately called police”

Reporting Lou Young EAST PATCHOGUE, N.Y. As first reported by CBS 2 HD on Monday night, a 6-year-old who wandered out of his Long Island elementary school ended up in tears near the Sunrise Highway. via WCBS-TV New York

“But they're taking a step in the right direction by assigning the monitors.”

The Patchogue-Medford school district superintendent apologized on Tuesday after a 6-year-old boy wandered out of school and wound up on the Sunrise Highway service road. via Newsday.com

“It could have been a really bad situation”

Reporting Lou Young EAST PATCHOGUE, N.Y. It was a frightening ordeal for a 6-year-old boy on Long Island on Monday. via WCBSTV.com

“For now they say they pretty much have everything under control”

A day after Javier Reyes was struck by a motorist passing the ice cream truck where the 7-year-old had just bought a frozen treat, the boy's family stood watch at the hospital, waiting through agonizing hours ... via Newsday.com

The East Patchogue boy who was struck by a car after buying a treat from an ice cream truck was in 'extremely critical' condition Monday, a hospital spokeswoman said. via Newsday.com

“He landed on top of the car and when the car finally did stop from skidding, he rolled off.”

An East Patchogue boy was critically injured Saturday when he was struck by a car after buying a treat from an ice cream truck near his home, Suffolk police and witnesses said. via Newsday.com

A father accused of trying to leave his children on a stranger's Long Island lawn has pleaded not guilty to child endangerment, drug possession and other charges.

Thomas Chiusano was being held early Saturday on $160,000 bond or $80,000 cash bail.

Suffolk County Police Lt. John O'Brien says an East Patchogue woman was mowing her lawn when the 29-year-old Chiusano abruptly dropped off his 5-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter Thursday afternoon.

Police say the woman tried to grab Chiusano's car keys, but he pulled her hair, scratched her and drove off. She called police, who stopped him in nearby Bohemia. Read more

A Brentwood man who was under the influence of drugs left his two young children on a stranger's lawn in East Patchogue on Thursday afternoon, and then drove off in his van, police said. via Newsday.com