Riverhead News

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, March 7th 2014 at 7pm.

One of my favorite things to do when I am bored is to go bowling. And one of the best places around is The All Star in Riverhead.

Teenage drug and alcohol abuse is not just a problem in Riverhead, NY, but also throughout the entire state.

Twelve fraudulent transactions, totaling more than $2,000, were made on a credit card belonging to Carmen Arevalo, who lives on Prospect Boulevard.

Almost two decades ago, Southampton Town Justice Deborah Kooperstein was on the bench before a case involving an 18-year-old from Noyac, facing marijuana possession charges, a violation in the eyes of the court.

Dr. Patricia Dillon, Suffolk's former acting director of public health, filed her suit in November 2007, after she was suspended.

The Suffolk County Legislature addressed a wide range of topics during their session Tuesday session in Riverhead, and adopted several esoteric bills and resolutions.

Santos Elena Ruiz Solano, 26, was charged with second degree murder on February 20 after she reportedly killed her newborn baby girl.

In Melville accident on The L.I.E .Service Rd WB between I 495/CO Hwy 3/Pinelawn Rd and I 495/Hwy 110/Long Island Expy in Suffolk In Melville accident on The L.I.E .Service Rd WB between I 495/CO Hwy 3/Pinelawn Rd and I 495/Hwy 110/Long Island Expy in Suffolk In Holtsville overturned vehicle.

Youssef Abdelgawad, AKA Karim Abdelgawaf, 25 of Huntington Station is charged in a two-count indictment in the shooting death of a 33 year old Roosevelt man in Huntington Station on August 21, 2013.

The Suffolk County Legislature is nearing a vote on a bill that would raise the legal age to purchase cigarettes and other tobacco products from 19 to 21. Legis.

Officers responded to a report of a person buried in a collapsed ditch on Lewis Road at 1:10 p.m. Friday.

March 2nd, 2014 - At the request of the Suffolk County Police Department, a New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services Missing Vulnerable Adult Alert has been issued relating to the disappearance of Josef Dobler: age 79; from Dix Hills, New York on March 2, 2014 at 7:30 AM.

Buoy One on Main Street in Huntington has closed. The offshoot of a Riverhead restaurant, which also has a Westhampton branch, opened last spring but didn't quite make it to a year.

When the East End Drug Task Force last week busted a ring of heroin dealers in Riverhead officials say was trafficking in a particularly potent brand of the drug, it cast a light on the growing problem of opiate addiction across Suffolk County, including the East End.

Rachel Gorga, 16, left, of Manorville, and Ana Figueroa, 18, of Hampton Bays, measure the vitals of Breezy, a 6-year-old Samoyed, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014.

For the first time in years, it's not impossible to get a parking spot at Walmart.

Sony has been working mobile fans into a frenzy at MWC in Barcelona this week, showing off a slew of new products for the first time , though for a thousand workers at its US stores it appears there's little to cheer about.

Springtime will bring not only sunny skies but the opening of a local favorite in Mattituck.

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota announced Wednesday that three men from Harlem and six East End heroin dealers, including four from Riverhead, face criminal charges following an East End Drug Task Force investigation into the buying and selling of what Mr. Spota said was an especially potent type of heroin, marketed on the streets ... (more)