Yaphank News

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Edward Webber is hosting a 5K run next month to benefit the Guardians of Our Dependents , an organization that helps families of police department members who have died.

April 16th, 2014 - Suffolk County Police have arrested a Riverhead man who was driving a stolen vehicle and then fled from police early this morning.

County Executive Steve Bellone Tuesday unveiled a whopping $410.3 million 2015 capital budget that will borrow $5 million to pay for new police cars in the depleted fleet and spend $207 million to replace an aging bay outfall pipe for the Southwest sewer district.

The increasingly popular fitness movement, CrossFit, has made its way to Centereach.

April 11, 2014 - Suffolk County Police Commissioner Edward Webber is hosting a 5K run in May to benefit the Guardians of Our Dependents , an organization that helps families of police department members who have died.

Prosecutors accuse Jolly Stewart, 55, of Middle Island, of endangering a patient while working at a skilled nursing facility in 2012.

Jolly Stewart used to work at the John J. Foley nursing home before the Yaphank facility was shut down.

MS Packaging and Supply will receive tax breaks from the Brookhaven Industrial Development Agency to assist its $4.5 million Yaphank relocation, according to a statement.

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A Hampton Bays man was arrested after police said he intentionally rammed his car "repeatedly" into the new car of another motorist in Quogue early Wednesday, then led officers on a multi-jurisdictional high-speed pursuit that ended only when his car ran out of gas on the Long Island Expressway.

State and local lawmakers Friday demanded that the Long Island Power Authority get to work on a long-promised study into the feasibility of overhauling the Port Jefferson power plant as LIPA prepares to contract for other power sources that could render the 63-year old plant obsolete.