Mastic News

Suffolk police yesterday made a Shirley woman's July Fourth celebration especially happy when they rescued her blind 13-year-old poodle after it fell into a storm drain.

The State Senate marked Independence Day with displays of patriotism but no agreement to break the month-long stalemate.

An illegal underground nightclub operating out of a Mastic building was shut down by Suffolk police and Brookhaven Town investigators after a raid, town officials said.

Suffolk County plans to spray pesticide Thursday night on parts of Fire Island and southern Brookhaven Town in an effort to control mosquitoes, which spread West Nile virus.

A Mastic man was killed Wednesday in a motorcycle accident when he collided with a tractor-trailer in Yaphank, Suffolk police said.

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.

Jun 12, 2009 7:27 pm US/Eastern Reporting Jennifer McLogan MASTIC, N.Y. Police on Long Island found seven children between the ages of 2 and 13 living in filthy conditions inside a flea-infested house, with rotting food, and no running water or working toilets.

As part of a campaign against substandard housing, Town of Brookhaven officials Thursday announced the condemnation of a Mastic house they said has some of the worst living conditions the town's inspectors have ever seen.

Inside the house at 42 Locust Dr. in Mastic Beach there was no running water, no electricity.

Steven C. Mora, 21, of Hampton Bays was stopped by Southampton Town Police on May 18 at 7:48 a.m. at the intersection of North and Canal roads and charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a misdemeanor.

RICHMOND, Va. -- Philip Morris USA has filed additional lawsuits against retailers selling counterfeit versions of the company's Marlboro brand cigarettes.

The county isn'tA standing down on standing water, especially on its roads. The Suffolk County Department of Public Works has hired Hauppauge-based VHB Engineering , Surveying and Landscape Architecture for the design of sidewalks and drainage improvement along William Floyd Parkway in Mastic and Shirley.

RICHMOND, Va. - Philip Morris USA is accusing a New York retailer of selling counterfeit cigarettes and illegally using the company's Marlboro trademark.Philip Morris filed the federal suit in U.S. District Court in New York yesterday against Mastic, N.Y.-based Tammy's Smoke Shop.The company says police seized 184 cartons of counterfeit cigarettes ...

Fred Wesemann sees nothing strange about Brookhaven Town's decision to label his building as historic.

On April 20, at around 11:25 a.m., Southampton Village Police responded to a reported disturbance at the Southampton 7-Eleven. An anti-illegal immigration protester said a day laborer chest-bumped him several times.

A Mastic man was seriously injured early Friday when he fell out of a car and was struck by a hit-and-run driver on the eastbound Long Island Expressway in Islandia, a sheriff's spokesman said.

MASTIC A project to enhance traffic flow, reduce gridlock and improve safety along a nearly two-mile stretch of Montauk Highway in Shirley and Mastic has begun.

An 18-year-old woman managed to escape from her car seconds before it burst into flames Sunday night after she apparently lost control of her vehicle and struck a utility pole in Manorville, according to Eastport Fire Department officials.

Southampton Town Police charged the following with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree, a misdemeanor, last week: Darwin Curipoma, 34, of Danbury, Connecticut, and John Cabrera, 20, of Riverhead.

Long Island police say 11 people were hurt when a bus carrying handicapped children was hit by a minivan.

The accident happened at about 3 p.m. Friday in Mastic. Police say the bus was carrying five handicapped children in heavy rain and fog when it came to a stop and was rear-ended by the minivan behind it.

Suffolk County police say 11 people in both cars were all treated for minor injuries. No charges have been filed.

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