Suffolk County News

Police on Long Island are investigating a report of a body part found in the yard of a home in Hempstead.

Suffolk County Police arrested a Manorville man who they said provided an officer with a false name and then ran away on Sunrise Highway in Mastic Wednesday.

July 9, 2014 - Weather permitting; the Suffolk County Department of Public Works is planning to treat sections of the following communities as part of their ongoing annual efforts to control adult mosquitoes.

Dieter von Lehsten first visited the East End in 1969 and has owned a house in Southampton for 25 years.

It has been a long struggle, but Leftheri "Teddy" Syrianos has finally obtained the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America, that of an Eagle Scout.

July 9, 2014 - Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Police Fourth Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the public's help to identify and locate a person who stole items from a store in Commack last month.

The Suffolk County 2014 capital budget has been amended to include funds for dredging the South Ferry Channel between Shelter Island and Route 114 in North Haven.

Suffolk County's 631 area code may run out of assignable telephone numbers by as early as 2016, officials say.

The Dublin Pub, at 2002 Jericho Turnpike in New Hyde Park, as seen on Dec. 27, 2003.

On Tuesday, July 8, 2014, Islip Supervisor Thomas Croci, seen here on May 20, 2013, rebuked town leadership and oversight that led to the illegal dumping of thousands of tons of contaminated debris throughout town, and he said the town is committed to fixing the problem.

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Police are investigating the discovery of a "partially dismembered" body in a Bay Shore parking lot Tuesday morning.

Southold Police Marine Units have located a single engine aircraft and its pilot, the only occupant, floating in the Long Island Sound, approximately seven miles north of the Mattituck Inlet.

The Suffolk County District Attorney's East End Drug Task Force announced the arrest of a Sagaponack resident on Wednesday on felony and misdemeanor criminal possession charges following the stake-out of a Hampton Jitney bus after police received a tip that a package containing suspected narcotics was in transit on a Hampton Jitney bound for the ... (more)

An aerial photo of LIPA's Caithness facility in Yaphank shows the large rectangular parcel about the same size as the plant directly adjacent to the now operating facility on June 6, 2013.

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

Salt marshes throughout Suffolk County will be sprayed with pesticides by helicopter to control mosquito larvae on Tuesday, July 8. The Suffolk County Department of Public Works' Division of Vector Control plan to use large droplet, low altitude application of BTI and Methoprene between 5 a.m. and 8 p.m. tomorrow.

July 7, 2014 - United States Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand today announced that three fire departments on Suffolk County are set to receive a total of $583,786 in federal funding.

A Shirley woman with five young children in her car was among five people arrested at a sobriety checkpoint in Shirley Sunday night, police said.

Frederick Friedfeld, left, at a surprise 85th birthday party at his company ClearVision Optical in 2012 with his son Peter Friedfeld in a picture taken from ClearVision's Facebook page.