Riverhead News

Theresa A. Pratt, 43, of Riverhead was arrested by Southampton Town Police last Thursday, July 17, at 12:28 a.m. on County Road 39 in Southampton and charged with DWI.

East End residents are not famously forward-looking. Many embrace the philosophy Skip Heaney once laid out when I asked what his vision for our town was.

Theresa A. Pratt, 43, of Riverhead was arrested by Southampton Town Police last Thursday, July 17, at 12:28 a.m. on County Road 39 in Southampton and charged with DWI.

It's been a real problem for him. That refrain runs through his new memoir, "Foreskin's Lament" , and with good reason.

Ylik Mathews, left, was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals. Circles, right, briefly stopped laying eggs after the assault.

The 10th Annual Riverhead Blues Festival sounds off this weekend, behind East Main Street along the Peconic River.

It's a long way - physically and metaphorically - from the Mississippi Delta to the Peconic Riverfront in Riverhead, but that doesn't mean the blues can't flourish there.

The founder of a Haitian death squad who has resided as a free man in New York for most of the last decade is a defendant in a mortgage fraud case that opened yesterday.

The New York City Police Department's vice unit arrested three Long Islanders Friday on charges of fireworks possession.

The summer toll of drownings rose again when a 14-year-old boy was found unconscious in an Aquebogue pool, Riverhead police said.

In the latest of a series of pool drownings across Long Island in recent weeks, a 14-year-old boy died Thursday after he was found unconscious in a swimming pool at an Aquebogue home, Riverhead Town Police ...

First Stop in the New World Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century By David Lida Riverhead; 336 pages; $25.95 You might expect a boosterish screed, a mocking polemic or at least globalization theory from ...

TELEVISION programs broadcast from Alexandra Palace, London, and from Rome, Italy, have been seen many times this year in the mirror of a special cathode ray television receiver located in Riverhead, Long ...

James Katsipis, a 2001 graduate of East Hampton High School, who was born in Southampton Hospital, is upset that Oasis Corporation, a non profit organization, has decided to close down the Phoenix House Drug ...

SMITHOWN The driver of a car that crashed, killing another man, has been charged with driving while intoxicated.

A Riverhead teen is under arrest, charged with driving while intoxicated, following a one-car crash just after midnight Thursday that left his 19-year-old passenger dead, police said.

LUIS PEREZ Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Training Webcasts Register Now June 27 - 1 pm Ten Command-ments of Intelligent and Safe Fireground Operations Presenter: Mark Emery This webcast will look at the reality fire ...

A former Riverhead fire commissioner and salesperson for the Long Island Cauliflower Association pled guilty Tuesday to grand larceny, filing a false instrument and forgery charges in Suffolk County Court.

Published: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 7:30 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 11:07 a.m. RIVERHEAD, N.Y. A criminal investigation that started two decades ago effectively came to an end Monday, as the ...

A former Riverhead fire district commissioner pleaded guilty on Tuesday to siphoning $100,000 from the agency in a scheme prosecutors said was meant to mask years of his own mismanagement at a local farm supply ...