Suffolk County News

Town of Huntington Superintendent of Highways Peter S. Gunther pulls out and looks at signs inside the sign shop at the Town of Huntington highway yard in Elwood July 23, 2014.

Police on Eastern Long Island made numerous drunken driving arrests Saturday night and early Sunday morning, including a man who was allegedly caught driving drunk with his teenage daughter in the car, authorities said .

A Long Island man burglarized a trailer park home while assaulting the resident and extorting money from the victim's father, police said.

Crash occurred westbound on Nesconset Highway, West of Old Town Road in Setauket on Saturday, July 26, 2014 at 4:11 a.m. , NY - July 26, 2014 - Suffolk County Police today arrested a Coram man for driving while intoxicated after his vehicle struck and killed his friend, a pedestrian, in Setauket early this morning.

In this March 1918 photo, American soldiers of Company K, 165th Infantry of the Fighting 69th, Old Rainbow Division, march to the trenches at St. Clement, France during World War I. As the world marks 100 years since World War I began on July 28, 1914, take a look back at where Long Island and New York's war dead came from, their military branch ... (more)

Suffolk County Police Sixth Squad detectives are investigating a crash that killed a motorcyclist in Stony Brook yesterday.

A 300-foot berm of debris seen Monday morning on May 19, 2014, at the rear of a property located at 175 Brook Avenue in Babylon.

Late blight, a fungal-like pathogen that affects potato and tomato crops, has been confirmed on Long Island for the sixth consecutive year.

Police in New York say an inebriated man ran over and killed a friend who had climbed out of his car and started walking home because she was worried he was drunk.

Police say a Long Island man struck and killed a friend after she got out of his car and started walking because she believed he was drunk.

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.