Suffolk County News

Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a Dix Hills man who police said drowned in his back yard pool Monday night.

A Rocky Point man was arrested, charged with robbing two banks in three days, after he was caught hiding under a parked tractor-trailer in the parking lot of a Holtsville movie theater, police said.

The wait is over. Suffolk County's first Fairway Market will open in Lake Grove on Wednesday.

Police are investigating a reported robbery at a Medford bank Monday afternoon. A 911 call came in at about 2:05 p.m. from Suffolk County National Bank located at 2801 Route 112 reporting a robbery, police said.

A man was arrested and charged Monday in connection with the murders of two women on Long Island - dating back more than 20 years.

Suffolk County Police said Monday night they have cracked two murder cases from the 1990s with the arrest of a Manorville man.

The four candidates for Southampton Town Council joined the Noyac Civic Council Meeting on Tuesday, July 16 at the Old Noyac School House.

A Mastic man has been arrested in Florida and charged in the slaying of Sarah P. Goode, a 21-year-old mother whose body was found in a wooded area of Medford last month, Suffolk County police said early Saturday, July 12, 2014.

Police investigate a homicide at a Church on Main St. in Patchogue on June 28, 2014, after finding the body of a man.

July 21, 2014 - Weather permitting, the Suffolk County Department of Public Works will treat sections of the following communities as part of its ongoing effort to control adult mosquitoes.

Local authorities are seeking the public's help with identifying and locating a man who violated two orders of protection early this year.

Spanking your child on the behind is a reasonable use of force, the state court of appeals ruled in the case of a Long Island father who took the disciplinary action at a party.

On Sunday afternoon, dogs and their owners at the Haven's Beach dog park in Sag Harbor were displaced when members of Sag Harbor's Volunteer Fire Department asked them to clear the field so a helicopter could land.

A Long Island man is hospitalized in critical condition after police say the jet ski he was riding crashed into a boat.

Prescription drugs are a more serious problem than ever in our society, and the drugs have been at the center of several high-profile robberies and killings over the past few years.

July 20, 2014 - Suffolk County Police Fifth Squad detectives are investigating the death of a Holbrook woman who drowned last night in her backyard pool.

July 20, 2014 - Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives have arrested an 18-year-old Dix Hills man for assaulting his mother and they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of the suspect's 15-year-old brother.

Southampton Town Police arrested a Sag Harbor acupuncturist Saturday, July 12, on charges that he sexually abused a female patient he was treating.

Police say they have their sights on a person of interest in the case of a missing Brownsville woman who may have been murdered.

July 19th, 2014 - James L. Tomarken, MD, MSW, MPH, MBA, Commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, says today that that the beach closure issued for Steers Beach in Northport has been lifted, as results of recent samples collected show the water quality to be within acceptable levels.