Suffolk County News

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy and emergency preparedness officials have announced preparations for the remnants of Tropical Storm Hanna, which will impact the region Saturday.

Sen. Charles Schumer is planning to detail how the rising cost of diesel is affecting New York schools.

Suspect Justin McDonald, 18, at Suffolk's Second Precinct; at right, the park. A Greenlawn teenager pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning to charges that he and two other men raped a teenager and robbed her two ...

A lawyer for a woman whose 100-year-old mother was fatally shot in her Long Island home says the daughter is cooperating with investigators.

The Long Island magician and photographer charged with secretly videotaping women in the dressing room of his home photo studio pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Suffolk County criminal court to a 78-count grand ...

The Suffolk County Police Arson Section is investigating a pipe bomb ignited in a Dix Hills resident's mailbox.

A 100-year-old woman was found dead in her North Haven home by her daughter on Sunday afternoon, according to the Suffolk County Police Department Homicide Squad.

Governor David A. Paterson today directed the New York National Guard to immediately prepare to assist in the response to Hurricane Gustav.

Police have arrested a 31-year-old man in a pipe bomb explosion that left a mailbox at a Long Island home in pieces.

Suffolk County police arson investigators say they arrested the South Huntington man on a felony charge of criminal mischief.

Police say Dix Hills residents reported hearing a loud boom and later found the exploded mailbox about 5:40 p.m. Thursday. Arson detectives later determined that a pipe bomb caused the explosion.

Police are trying to determine whether there is a connection with the a pipe bomb explosion that destroyed a mailbox at a Laurel Hill residence about 6:20 p.m. Thursday.

A man suspected in a fatal hit-and-run accident on Long Island has been arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport aboard a flight to Poland.

Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney Glenn Kurtzrock says 22-year-old Lukasz Bienczyk (BEE' en chik) confessed to the fatal hit-and-run accident after he was arrested Thursday night aboard a LOT Polish flight to Warsaw. The Lindenhurst resident is a Polish national.

Bienczyk pleaded not guilty at arraignment Friday to felony charges of leaving the scene of a fatal accident. He was ordered held pending bail of $150,000 cash or $450,000 bond.

A 19-year-old Long Island woman is accused of being drunk while driving with her toddler son in the car.

BABYLON Suffolk County Police are investigating an incident where a truck driver was robbed then locked in his truck on Tuesday.

SAYVILLE Suffolk County Police are investigating a bank robbery that occurred Wednesday at the Island Federal Credit Union branch in Sayville.

A Suffolk County jury has convicted a Selden man of sodomy, attempted sodomy and sexual abuse charges after a day of deliberations in Suffolk County court.

A Medford man was arrested at the hospital just hours after police said a suspicious fire destroyed a portion of his home -- a home located on the same street as the fire department.

Police are searching for the driver who hit a pedestrian on Route 110 in North Amityville early Monday, then dragged the man for about 100 feet and drove off, leaving him to die.

A speedboat taking part in a race on a Long Island bay has overturned, killing two people.

Suffolk County police say the boat's driver and an assistant controlling its speed were the only people on board when it flipped Sunday afternoon. They say the operator and the throttleman were pronounced dead at a hospital.

Police say they don't know why the boat turned over during the Battle on the Bay race in the Great South Bay, a lagoon between Patchogue (PACH'-awg) and Fire Island.

Witnesses say the accident occurred far from shore and stopped the race.

A West Babylon man replacing the transmission on his car was crushed to death when the automobile fell on him late Wednesday, Suffolk County police said.

Reports earlier this week suggested that 50 , whose real name is Curtis Jackson , was avoiding scheduling talks with authorities about the fire, which gutted Tompkins ' home in May of this year.

Authorities say a pet goat named Teddy was found strangled with a belt around his neck on a Long Island street.