Suffolk County News

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.

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.