East Patchogue News

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.

Police in Suffolk County say a landlord installed video cameras in the bedroom of a teenage tenant.

Only the stout of heart need apply for Chachama Grill 's upcoming Italian wine dinner.

A local landlord is being arraigned on criminal charges today for snooping on his tenants, according to Suffolk County Police Fifth Squad Detectives.

A landlord on Long Island is accused of spying on a teenage tenant. Police say 44-year-old Louis Bosco installed a hidden camera and audio gear in the girl's bedroom and bathroom.

The state Environmental Facilities Corp. has signed off on a deal to cut in half a $5.2- million stimulus grant to a Brookhaven Empire Zone industrial park and give that money to Patchogue 's sewage plant instead.

Patchogue Mayor Paul Pontieri is bewildered, and he's angry. Two years ago, Sens.

Someone sent a Long Island building contractor a message he can't ignore -- by dumping a huge load of trash on his front yard.

Jun 4, 2009 6:07 pm US/Eastern Reporting Jennifer McLogan BROOKHAVEN, N.Y. A pile of debris is dumped on a Suffolk County man's driveway, and he claims that it was no prank.

More than 300 demonstrators for and against a proposed East Patchogue Wal-Mart came to Brookhaven Town Hall Thursday night for a raucous hearing before a board vote to decide a key zoning change for the big-box store.

Even as Americans commemorate their war dead this weekend, there was cause for celebration at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma Saturday - soldiers came home safe.

It may not be a mega project, but business owners say the just-approved redevelopment of 4.87 acres of its long-depressed downtown will provide a huge boost for the Village of Patchogue, as well as a place for visitors to check in.

The shooter of a stray bullet that paralyzed a North Bellport boy was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison.

A pedestrian was struck by a car on westbound Sunrise Highway in East Patchogue before dawn on Friday, closing the road for about an hour in the area of Route 112.

Children boarding a school bus in south Medford escaped injury Wednesday after a landscaping truck hit a car, sparking a chain-reaction crash that ended with a Jeep striking the bus, police said None of the more than a dozen children from the Patchogue-Medford School District who were on or boarding the bus were injured.

David Michael honed skills as an Army electrician and heavy-vehicle operator while earning the rank of sergeant in Iraq.

An East Patchogue man driving a Jeep stolen from a family member led cops on a lengthy pursuit from Riverhead to Patchogue on Wednesday before he bailed and was arrested, according to Riverhead Town police.

In the 1960s, when palatial theaters called the Granada, the Rialto and the Star Palace neared the end of their reign over Patchogue's nightlife, the Plaza Theater was something of a newcomer - a flat-topped box of a building with a single screen.