Smithtown News

Smithtown and Huntington have entered a new partnership to buy compressed natural gas at a future Kings Park pumping station that, officials said, allows both towns to expand their CNG vehicle fleets and maintain more stable fuel prices over the next few years.

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.

A middle-aged Smithtown man who died Tuesday became the fourth death associated with swine flu in Suffolk County.

Long Island's Suffolk County has recorded a fourth death linked to swine flu. County health officials said Tuesday the victim, a Smithtown man between the ages of 45 and 55, had underlying medical problems.

The Postpartum Resource Center of NY has announced its first hospital-based pregnancy and postpartum support group in Suffolk County, NY.

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.

The newest service dogs from America's VetDogs , Smithtown, NY, will participate in a Washington graduation cermony beside four disabled veterans who have served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflicts, before a gathering of top army officials, defense contractors, and supporters of the organization.

Across Long Island , thousands of people, some barely in their teens, are learning that heroin addiction is a monster not easily conquered.

Readers' faves Any local diner can make you eggs, but how many places can serve you a breakfast that will make your day? Few enough.

A couple of ducklings have been plucked from a Long Island sewer drain, where the baby birds got stuck after running scared from another animal.

Edie Falco's star character in Showtime's "Nurse Jackie" snorts drugs, steals money, forges an organ donor's card, has sex on the job with a pharmacist and flushes a severed body part down the toilet - and that's just in the first episode.

"Unfit for human occupancy." That's what Brookhaven Town Supervisor Mark Lesko said yesterday about a home in Mastic that was condemned after receiving a slew of code violations.

Marist junior Laura Sherland didn't expect to get a call about the doughnut she created for Dunkin' Donuts' Create Dunkin's Next Donut contest.

Edie Falco at the premiere of Showtime's new comedy series 'Nurse Jackie.' Edie Falco 's role as a Vicodin -popping RN on Showtime's new series " Nurse Jackie ," is being bed-panned by some real-life nurses.

Attached is the mug shot of Robert Fransecky. Fransecky was charged with three counts of Burglary 2nd Degree, one count of Attempted Burglary 2nd Degree, and Grand Larceny in connection for a series of burglaries in Suffolk County over the past few months.

Justin Goodman 757-622-7382 Smithtown, N.Y. -- Today, PETA sent a letter to Great Hollow Middle School Principal Daniel Goitia in support of Matthew Glaser, a seventh-grade student who's fighting to replace animal dissection at the school with modern, humane alternatives.

After a period of public and written comments, state parks department officials will proceed with plans to demolish 14 deteriorating buildings on the Kings Park Psychiatric Center property.

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May 26, 2009 8:20 pm US/Eastern Reporting Jennifer McLogan SMITHTOWN, N.Y. General Motor's threat of going into bankruptcy could threaten the future of a Long Island girl paralyzed in a tragic accident.

They ain't too proud to beg for billions, but when it comes to compensating two Long Island girls critically injured in a horrific head-on crash, General Motors officials are telling the kids' family to settle for "pennies" -- or get nothing at all when the auto giant goes belly up, court papers show.