Yaphank News

Window treatment purchases are now just mouse clicks away, thanks to online merchandisers such as Swags Galore , a discount curtain retailer.

March 7, 2014 - Suffolk County Legislator Robert Trotta presented proclamations to the three newest Eagle Scouts of Troop 301: Spenser Jamison Ochs, Thomas Dennis Harrington and Zachary Alexander Zwergel.

Suffolk County Sheriff Vincent DeMarco stands in one of the four pods at the new Suffolk County Correctional Facility in Yaphank.

The Department of Environmental Conservation is moving to clean up a toxic waste site owned by the Long Island Railroad in Yaphank.

Brookhaven Town officials have called on the state to scrap plans to cap a contaminated Long Island Rail Road yard in Yaphank and instead remove soil from the property.

A March 27, 2013 photo of the John J. Foley Skilled Nursing Facility which, according to Suffolk public works officials, would need $146-million to be remade into jail space.

This file photo shows the detective shield and patch of the Suffolk Police Department on Oct. 26, 2009 in Yaphank.

Correction officers dominated the list of highest-paid Suffolk County workers last year, with a jail warden leading the way with $417,000 in total pay, legislative budget officials said.

This file photo shows the detective shield and patch of the Suffolk Police Department on Oct. 26, 2009 in Yaphank.

Suffolk County Sheriff Vincent DeMarco in one the four pods at the new Suffolk County Correctional Facility in Yaphank on March 22, 2013.

New York's attorney general says Aurelia Rios, 72, died at the Medford Multicare Center for Living after an employee failed to connect her to a ventilator.