Suffolk County News

Here's a look at some of the top news stories that made headlines in and around your community this past week.

A Massachusetts man was arrested Sunday after police say he burglarized two East Northport businesses, one less than 20 minutes after the other.

People walking to waiting taxis are blasted by wind driven rain on 7th Ave. near Penn Station as the weather bent umbrellas and sent people squinting when not under cover.

Police and an ambulance at the scene of a collision between a car and a truck on Veterans Memorial Highway near Broadway in Holbrook at 5:46 a.m. Friday.

The New York comptroller's office is auditing hate crime reporting statewide after a legislator earlier this year cited an apparent spike in incidents.

A very large piece of New York City firefighter history may soon be forced to take its final voyage to the scrapyard.

Suffolk County Police arrested a Westbury man Friday in a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a Sunoco employee in Huntington in February.

A Long Island man was arrested Thursday after he allegedly stole packages from his neighbor's doorstep inside his Holbrook condominium complex, Suffolk County police said .

The following information was supplied by the East End police departments and the Suffolk County police.

The following information was supplied by the East End police departments and the Suffolk County police.

The fire that ripped through the Jon Thomas Inne in Brightwaters early Thursday morning could have been a lot worse if not for the actions of officers from Suffolk County Police's Third Precinct.

A 2012 Honda Civic collided with a delivery truck on Montauk Highway on Napeague Monday morning, sending both occupants of the Honda and the driver of the truck to the hospital with what police described as non-life threatening injuries.

The Mattituck Chamber of Commerce is protesting plans to close the Mattituck branch of Suffolk County National Bank next year.

Suffolk County Police Department cops salute during a SCPD promotion ceremony at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood.

Sure, it's easy to roll up to any one of the hundreds of christmas tree stands across Long Island and pluck out your blue spruce from the piles, but for many intrepid holiday cheer-seekers, that just doesn't cut it.

While the Suffolk County Board of Elections has not posted the final election figures due to contested results in Brookhaven Town, the East Hampton Town figures have been finalized with absentee ballots late last month, settling the trustee races.

Suffolk County has financed construction of six solar carport sites on county-owned land over the past couple of years, but plans for a seventh carport site in Ronkonkoma were scrapped from the $70 million project and that now has the county facing a lawsuit.

Volunteers from the Bay Shore, West Islip and Islip fire departments respond to a fire at the Jon Thomas Inne on Howells Road in Brightwaters.

The Huntington Manor Fire Department and Huntington Community First Aid Squad respond to a crash on Melville Road near Reynolds Street in South Huntington at about 12:25 a.m. on Thursday.

A seven-point buck and a doe fell into an open foundation at an East Islip construction site and were rescued when Islip Town workers, state officials and the SPCA decided to create a dirt ramp for them.