Islip News

A Selden woman is facing animal cruelty charges after being accused of killing more than 20 dogs and burying them in her backyard, Suffolk County SPCA officials said Monday.

Authorities in New York say a woman who had about 20 dead dogs buried in her backyard on Long Island faces a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge.

The firm, Morelli Ratner, cited "irreconcilable conflict" when applying to drop Patricia Dillon as a client.

To read the full story on the late Spirit, pick up the Thursday, November 5, edition of The Southampton Press-Eastern Edition, on newsstands Wednesday evening.

Nicholas Hausch appears in court in Riverhead earlier this year. Thursday, he pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the hate killing of Marcelo Lucero .

The former News 12 and "Inside Edition" anchor placed first in a field of four Islip Town Board candidates, outshining her Republican partner, Councilman Steven Flotteron, who nabbed the other seat, and pushing out longtime incumbent Christopher Bodkin, a Democrat whom both sides had expected to win.

Bayman Frank Sloup, of Bay Shore, stands with some of his crab traps. A federal jury has awarded $2.1 million in damages to "one of the last of the Suffolk baymen" who sued the Town of Islip and two of its former officials, claiming that they vindictively drove him out of business.

Kathleen Prisco has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of her husband, Ralph Prisco in Fort Salonga.

The Islip Town workers union, which failed to obtain a restraining order in State Supreme Court Monday to stop the scheduled layoffs of 32 union members, reached a settlement with town officials to extend those workers' health benefits through June 30, town and union officials said.

Jeffrey Conroy, 17, right, is led out of Fifth Precinct in Patchogue with six other suspects for arraignment in Central Islip.

The Fort Salonga woman accused of stabbing her husband to death Friday is on suicide watch at the Suffolk County Jail in Riverhead.

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Written by Jaclyn Gallucci on Oct 31st, 2009 and filed under Long Island News . You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0 . You can leave a response or trackback to this entry Two men broke into a pet shop in West Islip early Friday morning and stole a puppy and a python, Suffolk police said.

Kathleen Prisco has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of her husband, Ralph Prisco, on Oct.

Oscar Ralda of Bay Shore is facing a cockfighting charge after roosters prepared for battle were found at his Bay Shore home.

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Roy Gross, chief of the Suffolk Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said the goat's severed head and body were found in a white garbage bag Saturday.

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A retired New York City police officer has pleaded not guilty to allegations that he kicked down the door of his estranged wife's Long Island home, pulled out a gun and shot her five times.

Rajinder Wadhwa, 32, the owner of Ronnie's Deli on Union Boulevard, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in First District Court in Central Islip to second-degree criminal solicitation.

President Barack Obama chats with students during a visit to Viers Mill Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland .