Suffolk County News

A dog trained to detect explosives has been assigned exclusively to Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma by the Suffolk County Police Department, officials said Monday.

Seven more mosquito samples testing positive for West Nile virus bring to 13 the total in Suffolk County this season, health officials said Monday.

A man identified as Huntington resident Daniel Karpen is removed from Huntington Town Hall by Suffolk County police officers after creating a disturbance before to the start of a Town Board meeting on June 17, 2014, police said.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Police Second Squad detectives are seeking the public's help to identify and locate the people responsible for burglarizing a residence in Melville last month.

Suffolk police homicide detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman whose body was found by a nephew Sunday afternoon inside her Farmingville home.

Jeanine Megis, with her husband Alex, and their three children, 8, 5, and 3, outside of their Sandy damaged Merrick home.

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.