Suffolk County News

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.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone Wednesday cited the county's "fiscal emergency" as he asked legislators to develop ideas to help balance the budget after sales tax revenues fell short of projections.

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

Hauppauge resident Stephen D'Giff, right, with attorney Kenneth M. Mollins, speaks about the notice of claim filed against the Town of Islip for alleged negligence in allowing toxic dumping to occur on residents' land in various areas of the town, at Mollins' law office in Hauppauge on Wednesday, July 23, 2014.

July 23rd, 2014 - The Suffolk County Police Department has issued a Silver Alert for a Greenlawn man who is diabetic and suffers from dementia.

The men who appeared in Judge John Toomey's courtroom Tuesday took various pathways to reach his Suffolk County Veterans Court.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed bills to expand the use of traffic cameras at intersections to catch drivers running red lights.

A homeless man arraigned Tuesday in the death of another homeless man beat his victim severely enough to cause massive damage to his neck and skull, a Suffolk County prosecutor said in court.

A suspect walked into the Chabad House of Coram, at 87 Mt. Sinai Coram Rd. in Coram, Suffolk County police said.

July 22, 2014 - Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the death of a man who drowned in his backyard pool last night.

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.