East Patchogue News

You could almost read this story straight from the New Testament: A Long Island couple is home free after an outraged judge gave them an amazing Thanksgiving present - canceling their debt to ruthless bankers trying to toss them out on the street.

A couple on Long Island is giving thanks Wednesday for owing no debt on their home.

NEW CITY - A Long Island man was charged today with swindling a New City doctor out thousands of dollars in what prosecutors described as a mortgage refinancing scam.

Avon Court in Westhampton Beach was lined with cars Saturday morning as friends, family and volunteers huddled inside a new house tucked away at the end of the street, all awaiting the arrival of Cathy Strand-O'Shea. Ms.

We went to Nissan 112 in Patchogue, NY to inquire about ending our lease early and purchasing a different vehicle.

"This is irony," said Noel Feustel, a leader of the Bayport Safety Committee sponsoring Thursday's event.

Brookhaven 's town board voted last night to condemn the East Main Street theater and replace it with a new business.

Three people received minor injuries Tuesday morning when two cars crashed on Veterans Highway in Holbrook, Suffolk police said.

One person died in a fatal traffic accident in Yaphank on Monday, authorities said.

Next month, the East Patchogue business district along Main Street will get sewer lines, thanks to $1.5 million in federal stimulus cash secured by the Town of Brookhaven.

A Long Island woman scuffled with police Saturday when Suffolk County cops tried to seize crack pipes and hypodermic needles from her kitchen, police said.

Suffolk police arrested an East Patchogue woman Saturday after she attacked an officer who was securing evidence of heroin and crack in her home.

It no longer screens horror movies, instead it's become a horror movie: The Building That Wouldn't Die.

NINE living relatives of Adolf Hitler have been discovered by a customs official and a journalist who claim to have decoded the Nazi dictator's DNA.

State police Superintendent Harry Corbitt is holding a special commencement exercise for a single graduate of the trooper academy who recently returned from active military service in Iraq.

Wycliffe Johnson, an innovative composer and producer known as Steely who held sway over two decades of reggae music, died Tuesday in East Patchogue, N.Y. He was 47 and lived in Kingston, Jamaica.

A man ejected from his overturned vehicle had to be airlifted to Stony Brook University Medical Center after being seriously injured in an accident Tuesday evening in Medford , Suffolk County police said.

A Riverhead woman will spend five years in prison for robbing two fast food restaurants and trying to rob a third last summer.

Suffolk police detectives are looking for the people responsible for the shooting of a North Bellport man early Saturday morning.

Legislation designed to expand the state's DNA database to include the genetic samples of misdemeanor offenders -- a step, some say could be used to bring those guilty of crimes to justice and free those who are wrongfully accused -- was passed by the New York State Assembly June 10.