Fort Salonga News

Residents near an East Northport intersection where a garbage truck overturned and crushed a Fort Salonga woman in her car on Monday said they are upset with the way drivers a ' especially truck drivers a ' speed by.

A few years ago, Thea Mansuetto was so fed up with - and frightened by - vehicles whizzing by her driveway on Bread and Cheese Hollow Road, just 200 feet north of Pulaski Road, that she doubled the width of her driveway so she would have enough room to turn around and exit front end first.

An officer with a Suffolk County Police motor carrier safety unit in Fort Salonga writes a summons to a landscaping truck in a parking lot on the corner of Cheese and Bread Hollow Road and Route 25A as part of crackdown on unsafe trucks after a crash nearby on Monday that left a woman dead after a garbage truck fell on top of her car.

Suffolk County police patrolled a stretch of Bread and Cheese Hollow Road between Pulaski Road and Route 25A in Fort Salonga Thursday in response to residents' complaints about speeding trucks, many of which they believe are carrying loads over the stated 2.5-ton limit.

Compiled by Virginia Dunleavy and Daria Arnold Centerport A pocketbook containing credit cards was stolen from an unlocked vehicle parked on Harned Drive June 22.

Police are still trying to figure out why a garbage truck's brakes failed, causing a horrific accident yesterday just after 8am.

EAST NORTHPORT, N.Y.: Police say a driver was killed after a Long Island garbage truck fell on her car.

The driver of a garbage truck that flipped over and fatally crushed a woman in East Northport Monday told police the truck's brakes failed moments before the crash, authorities said.

Police say a driver was killed after a Long Island garbage truck fell on her car.

The Northport Historical Society's ever popular garden tour will take place on Sunday, June 14, from noon to 4 pm.

Rahiem Griffin said Wednesday that he remembers seeing a police car with its lights on on the side of the highway as he drove home from a night out with friends in May 2008.

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New York City firefighter Philip Scarfi veered into the breakdown lane of the Long Island Expressway in Plainview when he saw the cloud of debris left by a crash, grabbed his first-aid kit and bolted across eight lanes of traffic to the side of the crushed police car, he testified Monday in a Mineola courtroom.

The drunken driving case that left a Nassau police officer critically injured and launched Nassau County's controversial DWI "Wall of Shame" is set to begin trial Monday in Mineola .

Huntington town officials are to announce Tuesday that Bren-Tronics, which produces specialized batteries and charging systems for the military, has become the first participant in the towna s Transfer of Density Flow Rights Program, allowing the company to expand at its current Commack location while preserving a piece of environmentally ...

The Town of Smithtown has won its appeal of a zoning lawsuit filed against the town by Angel's Gate, an animal hospice operated out of a Fort Salonga home.

Serving the communities of Smithtown, Commack, Kings Park, St. James, Fort Salonga, Nesconset and Hauppauge.

" Mafia Cops" Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa were sentenced to life in prison Friday for taking part in eight mob murders.

Serving the communities of Smithtown, Commack, Kings Park, St. James, Fort Salonga, Nesconset and Hauppauge.

Compiled by Ginny Dunleavy and Ann Smuckler Commack A pocketbook was stolen from a locker room at the Hamlet Golf and Country Club Jan.