West Islip News

James Bernstein Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Jul. 5--A lifesaving rescue device invented by a trio of veteran firefighters from Long Island has been accepted by officials at the Statue of Liberty and is to be available for emergencies now that Lady Liberty's crown is open.

A lifelong Long Island boat enthusiast died yesterday after the sailboat he and his wife were piloting capsized during a race in Suffolk County, authorities said.

Police say a New York man has died after his boat capsized during a regatta on Long Island's Great South Bay.

A Wyandanch ex-chief's trip home for an early lunch Thursday proved fortuitous for two Deer Park brothers when the car they were in hit a tree, bursting into flames.

New York City police arrested two 26-year-old West Islip men Tuesday afternoon when they found 75 cases of fireworks in their van, police said.

Suffolk County Police have charged a Wheatley Heights man with driving while intoxicated in a Saturday night accident that injured a 62-year-old Valley Stream woman.

This week's Friday Forecaster is Rose Eiklor from West Islip, Long Island. She's a junior in college who's transferring from SUNY Plattsburgh to New York University.

A Dix Hills man was killed Wednesday evening in a single-car accident on Deer Park Avenue in Dix Hills, police said.

A woman charged in connection with a crash that killed a Long Island teenager pleaded not guilty at her arrignment Wednesday.

A Copiague woman was arrested and charged with drunken driving Tuesday after she was involved in an accident that killed a teenage driver, police said.

A collision between a car and a minivan on Long Island has left a teenage boy dead and a woman arrested on charges of drunken driving.

Just months after the legislature's former Presiding Officer Gregory Blass was named chief deputy of Suffolk Social Services in 2007, his new boss, Janet DeMarzo, moved him out to a building a mile away from the agency headquarters.

Police who stopped a New York man for a routine traffic violation, turned up a large haul of suspected powder cocaine Tuesday.

Two gunmen walked up to a group of people standing on a lawn in Wyandanch late Monday and opened fire, killing a man who was visiting his daughter, police said.

Robert Raimondi. 58, of West Islip is a vicar at St. Peter and St. Paul's Anglican Church in North Babylon.

Christopher Naun, 21, of Mamaroneck, New York, was arrested by Quogue Village Police on Dune Road at 7:15 p.m. on Saturday and charged with DWI.

Josh Elbaum , the superb point guard from St. John the Baptist High School in West Islip, NY, has finally made his decision.

A driver rammed a Suffolk police car twice during a traffic stop Thursday in North Amityville, eventually hitting a tree and fleeing on foot before being arrested, police said.

A Brentwood man riding his motorcycle alongside his brother was killed yesterday evening when he lost control of the bike and crashed in Deer Park, Suffolk police said.

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