Mastic Beach News

Suffolk County plans to spray pesticide Thursday night on parts of Fire Island and southern Brookhaven Town in an effort to control mosquitoes, which spread West Nile virus.

On the day a Mastic Beach woman became the latest victim of an alleged hate crime, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy announced the final two pieces of an anti-bias program designed to prevent such an attack.

A Westhampton Beach woman and two others have been charged with a hate crime after Suffolk County Police said they beat up a Mastic Beach woman on her front lawn Monday night while shouting anti-gay remarks.

Three people - two women and a man - were arrested Monday night in a bias assault in Mastic Beach in which the suspects "made numerous anti-gay remarks about the victim's sexual orientation," police said Tuesday.

Police on eastern Long Island say they have arrested three people on aggravated harassment charges after they kicked and hit a victim while uttering anti-gay remarks.

Joe Marchelewski, also known as "Pastor Ski" of the Rushing Wind Biker Church in Wading River, is shown with his bike in Mastic Beach.

At Stony Brook hospital, the nurses are calling him the "miracle baby." But the medical professionals aren't the only ones marveling at 2-year-old Braydon, who escaped serious injury Tuesday night when his father was struck and killed by a minivan as he tried to carry his son across the Long Island Expressway after their car crashed.

A Long Island toddler has escaped serious injury after his father was hit by a minivan as the two were crossing a bridge on foot.

A suburban college, which is being sued over an alleged gang rape and suicide, underreported campus crime for several years, the state attorney general said Friday.

Mastic Beach No electricity, no running water, no operating toilet. Instead, the residents kept jars of urine, and police found rotting food and human waste smearing the floors at 24 Locust Drive in Mastic Beach.

Two of five family members accused of keeping seven young children in a feces-strewn, filthy home on Long Island pleaded not guilty Friday to child endangerment charges.

Five family members have been arrested and their Long Island home condemned after seven children were found to be living in what police said was squalor.

Five family members were arrested on child endangerment charges Thursday after authorities found seven children ages 2 to 13 living in "deplorable conditions" at a Mastic Beach home, police said.

An East Hampton man beat his brother with a baseball bat and fractured his forearm last week, East Hampton Town Police reported.

A Mastic Beach couple took their five-year-old son along when they went to buy drugs, Suffolk County police said.

Bankers, lawyers and journalists have lately taken pay cuts and gone without raises to stay employed in a tough economy.

Manorville A Mastic Beach woman, not a candidate for "Mother of The Year." Her three-year-old daughter is in critical condition today, while "mom" is charged with Driving While Intoxicated and endangering the welfare of her child.

A 3-year-old Long Island girl is hospitalized and her 29-year-old mother is due in court to face charges that she was drunk and high when she crashed her car into a pickup truck with the girl in the back seat.

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The diverse habitats at Fire Island National Seashore's William Floyd Estate support a variety of migratory birds.