West Islip News

Mike Biener of Bohemia looks for gold and other metal at Robert Moses Beach after the storms on Nov.

Despite a proposed 11.2-percent tax increase in East Hampton Town's proposed $72.1 million budget for 2010, most who spoke up at a budget hearing before the Town Board on Thursday, November 5, were more upset that funding for a wide range of community organizations has been eliminated.

If you happen to know anyone who's recently acquired both a lab puppy and a rare albino python, police hope you'll call them.

Sheriff Vincent DeMarco Bolstered by a deal that gave them endorsements from multiple political parties, Suffolk County's district attorney, sheriff and treasurer ran without opposition and were re-elected Tuesday.

After years of faithful and loyal service to the Southampton Village Police Department, Spirit, an 8-year-old German shepherd police dog, died suddenly at a veterinary hospital in West Islip during the early morning hours of October 25.

A motorcyclist was seriously injured in an accident where the rider it the guardrail on the Service Rd.

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.

WEST ISLIP, NEW YORK. October 20, 2009 - " As Long Island's premier neurosurgical group, South Shore Brain and Spine is pleased to join the new Spine Center Excellence Program of the premier online education destination for patients with back pain and neck pain, Spine-health.com. With the goal of informing patients of the best spine center ...

Keisha Hicks, right, is consoled near the home on Jackson Street where her good friend Queen Mobley was stabbed to death.

Witnesses told Suffolk County police that a man was riding a bicycle on the south side of Great Neck Road heading west.

Maria Folks has joined the Manhattan-based advertising firm of GSW Worldwide as vice president and account director.

The driver of a Toyota FJ Cruiser was injured in a single car accident on Rt. 231 just south of Sunrise Hwy.

It would be hard to find an accountant with more years of experience than Sister Jo Marie Kaczanowski, R.S.M., the 91-year-old Mercy Hospital finance department accountant.

Written by Patrick Kelton on Oct 9th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

Hauppauge 182,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this month, but many of them will not have a family history of the disease, which is thought to be a major risk factor.

Written by Patrick Kelton on Oct 6th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

State police say a trooper fatally shot a suspect during a traffic stop after the man grabbed a police-issued baton away from the officer and began pounding him with the weapon.

I guess their "normal" boy is a failed Unabomber with a smoldering pepperoni stump.

Health officials and law enforcement agents are teaming up to convict business-owners who sell tobacco products to minors, and today, Suffolk officials will name names.

Former U.S. Rep. Rick Lazio , who announced this week he is running for governor in 2010, is best known in Syracuse for declining to munch on a sausage sandwich at the state fair while campaigning for U.S. senate.