Suffolk County News

July 26th, 2014 - Suffolk County Police have arrested a man for burglarizing a residence, assaulting a man and extorting cash from the victim's family last evening.

Local authorities are seeking the public's help with identifying and locating two people who shoplifted from a Medford store last month.

Two suspects were arrested less than two hours after a Blue Point burglary -- and one of the suspects now faces charges in a string of break-ins in that community, police said Friday.

A badly neglected dog is recovering from horrible neglect at a veterinary hospital in Farmingdale, N.Y., reported Thursday's Long Island News.

A Brooklyn woman repeatedly stabbed a neighbor following a dispute over unpaid rent and then dismembered her body, depositing the victim's head and arms in one Long Island community, and her torso and legs in another 25 miles east, a prosecutor said.

All of the following information was supplied by the Suffolk County Police Department.

Suffolk County police at the scene of an accident involving three pedestrians hit by a car early Thursday morning, July 24, 2014, on South 32nd Street in Wyandanch.

A 22-year-old Southampton man faces rape and endangerment charges after a hospital reported the sexual assault of an underage girl, police said.

As a result of higher-than-acceptable levels of bacteria, Lake Ronkonkoma Beach has been closed to swimmers, Suffolk County health officials said Thursday.

The landlord of a summer rental in Springs pleaded guilty Thursday to 14 felony charges stemming from his use of surveillance cameras to spy on his tenants.

Robert Stricoff, Babylon's top economic development aide, was named Thursday as the $155,000-a-year executive director of Suffolk's Industrial Development Agency, without screenings of any other candidates.

Edna Aguayo of Ozone Park, Queens, is the city's first person to win $1,000 a day for the rest of her life through New York Lottery's Cash4Life game.

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Original Release - Babylon, NY - July 23, 2014 - The Suffolk County SPCA is offering a one thousand dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for abandoning a dog which was turned in to the Town of Babylon Animal Shelter in "horrible condition,"as one shelter worker put it.

A shooting left one man dead and another injured in Huntington Station Wednesday night, authorities said.

July 23rd, 2014 - Suffolk County Police Fifth Squad detectives are investigating an incident during which an 18-month-old girl was found unresponsive in a family's pool in Sayville .

A woman has been arrested and charged in the death of a Brooklyn woman, whose partially dismembered body was found on Long Island earlier this month.

Fairway Market opened its first location in Suffolk County Wednesday, in the DSW shopping center directly across from the Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove.