Centereach News

A man who crashed his minivan into two vehicles and then fatally shot himself left despondent notes and had an open bottle of liquor in his vehicle, Suffolk police said.

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The man who former Belle Terre resident Martin Tankleff said bludgeoned Tankleff's parents - a crime for which Tankleff was convicted but later freed - was charged Thursday with a petty crime: stealing a PlayStation 2 console.

Jesenia Vega admitted in court Monday that she killed her boyfriend while she was drunk.

Suffolk legislators declined to act Tuesday on a home rule message, dubbed urgent by County Executive Steve Levy, that would have allowed the county to bond $8 million in benefits already paid to employees who took early retirement last year.

Two teenagers have been accused of causing $35,000 in damages by setting ablaze a Centereach high school football field.

The Ballet Education and Scholarship Fund, Inc. has announced the top winners of its annual scholarship competition held May 31 in conjunction with the BESFI Intensive Summer Workshop.

No disrespect to those posting about sport team topics, but I WISH that there would be some other topics discussed here.

Math scores are climbing on Long Island and statewide - so much so, that state educational leaders may soon decide to raise the bar.

One retired NYPD cop doesn't celebrate Memorial Day -- he lives it. For the past three years, heartbroken dad Bill McNaughton has proudly tended to his son's grave as an employee at the Calverton National Cemetery on Long Island.

By Karl Grossman "Suffolk's Declaration of Independence," was the heading of a statement issued by the Suffolk County Legislature last week after it passed a home rule message backing bills in the state legislature that would set up a commission to study secession of Nassau and Suffolk from the state and their formation into a new State of Long ...

An elderly mother and daughter are dead after a pre-dawn fire in their Long Island home.

A mother and her adult daughter were killed Saturday morning in a fire in their Centereach home, Suffolk County police said.

Two of the 39 people arrested on trespassing charges during protests at the University of Notre Dame were still in jail four days later.

Brookhaven Town officials announced last week the preservation of Hobbs Farm, perhaps the last remaining working farm in Centereach.

Two men were arrested on drug and child endangerment charges late Tuesday after they were caught in possession of a drug in a car - with a toddler in tow, police said.

The Greater Port Jefferson-Northern Brookhaven Arts Council has announced the 2009 nominees for the Second Annual STARS Awards.

Hauppauge Firefighters who responded to the call at Village in The Woods in Selden say low water pressure in the private community hampered their work.

Creating a local website similar to New York's "Project Sunlight" would cost Suffolk County $240,508, and six months of labor -- and the work cannot start until next year, county computer experts told a legislative committee.

A contractor installing traffic signals for the Town of Brookhaven struck a gas main early Monday, forcing the closure of Route 25 in Centereach for several hours, a National Grid spokeswoman said.