Lake Ronkonkoma News

Suffolk County has reopened Tanner Park Beach but closed Lake Ronkonkoma in Islip to bathing Humayun J. Chaudhry, the Suffolk health commissioner, announced Thursday that the beach closure issued for Tanner Park Beach in Copiague has been rescinded after water tested within acceptable levels.

Two more Suffolk County beaches have been closed to bathing after bacterial levels were found to be too high, the county health department said Tuesday.

Bernadette Bonanno's dad, Frank Crehan, and his seven children in 1967. Bernadette Bonanno is the one on the far right, sitting in the chair, "suffocating" her sister.

After serving for more than 80 years as a place of respite and a spiritual hub, the Cenacle Retreat House in Lake Ronkonkoma is set to come down.

A Sachem student was confirmed to have swine flu, and another student in the district had a possible case of this particular strain of H1N1 influenza virus A, according to school officials.

Dan J., on May 21st, 2009, peacefully at home in Northport, surrounded by his family.

An electrician and plumber fined by the city this week are two of five contractors at Marriott Residence Inn, now under construction, that face fines of up to $1,000 a day after Westchester County charged them with violating the county licensing law.

A Long Island mother stands accused of buying booze for underage kids. Evelyn Cruz's children, however, said there's no way it's true.

A Lake Ronkonkoma woman was arrested late Sunday, charged with supplying alcoholic beverages to a 15-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, police said.

A woman who suffocated her 5-year-old niece with a plastic bag on Long Island more than a quarter-century ago has been paroled, over her family's protest.

State parole officials say Kathleen Mary Conway left a Manhattan prison Thursday and went to an unidentified housing facility somewhere in Suffolk County.

Conway was 26, unemployed and living in her older sister's spare bedroom when she killed Sherrie Johnston in the girl's Lake Ronkonkoma home in June 1983.

Conway told investigators she killed the child out of anger at the family. She pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.

For the family of a little girl murdered by her aunt a quarter century ago, the question is as unanswerable now as it was on the day Kathleen Mary Conway bound and suffocated 5-year-old Sherie Johnston.

Commack A 2000 two-door white Honda Civic was discovered stolen March 29 from a Melanie Way residence.

Eleven Long Island students a ' including two from within the Town of Huntington -- are among 24 statewide to win Awards of Excellence in the New York State PTAa TMs Reflections Contest and will compete at the national level next month.

The driver of a getaway car who fled the scene of a Lake Ronkonkoma bank robbery was arrested Thursday night while police searched for a second man who walked out of the bank with an unspecified amount of cash, Suffolk police said.

Police are investigating a Thursday morning bank robbery in Lake Ronkonkoma that also prompted school lockdowns in the Sachem district, school and law-enforcement officials said.

Three people -- including two teenage girls -- were in Suffolk County jail Monday after being charged in connection with a pair of home burglaries in Lake Ronkonkoma and Lake Grove , police said.

Police have charged three people with burglarizing homes in Lake Ronkonkoma and Lake Grove earlier this month.

Two men accused of breaking into numerous homes in Dix Hills, Hauppauge and Ronkonkoma were arrested Wednesday night after Suffolk police pulled over their car.

Julianne Heun and Matthew Halstead were married Oct. 12 at the Beach Club Estate in Lake Ronkonkoma with a reception following.

Celina Jones, 5, has little to work with as she attempts to make snow angels at a playground in Lake Ronkonkoma.