A lawyer for the Central Islip man shot by an off-duty city cop outside a Miller Place pub last week said Tuesday he expects to file a lawsuit this week against the New York City Police Department and the officer.

Police said the man was airlifted to Stony Brook University Medical Center. His condition was not known Wednesday.

Police in Suffolk County are investigating two separate hit and run incidents that happened only a few miles and hours apart.

The Central Islip man wounded by an off-duty New York City cop after a bar fight was attacked by the officer and others and then shot as the fight ended, the man's attorney said.

Authorities are investigating a shooting outside a bar on Long Island involving an off-duty New York City police officer that left a man in critical condition.

Police investigate a crime scene at Napper Tandy's Irish Pub in Miller Place early Thursday morning.

Earlier this week Darren Lynch testified to killing two men and burying their hacked up bodies in Coram.

Lynch, 29, of Middle Village, said the barbecue was about a week after he buried body parts of Jairo Santos , 22, of Washington Heights and Joseph Odierno, 35, of Miller Place in July 2008.

Dr. Stuart Dawson testified that Joseph Odierno's torso had about 24 small stab wounds, but could not say whether the injuries occurred before or after he was shot in the head.

Share + Nov 7, 2009 2:32 pm US/Eastern The USS New York, built with steel from the rubble of the World Trade Center, was put into service Saturday both as a symbol of healing and strength.

What a welcome for the USS New York. The war ship, built with steel from the World Trade Center, arrived in New York City on Monday.

Choosing between Conservative incumbent Jane Bonner and Democrat challenger John Leonard, a deputy town supervisor, was no easy task.

Brookhaven Supervisor Mark Lesko and town Building Commissioner Marty Haley are both seeking a full term as the town's CEO.

The jury in the racially charged manslaughter case against John White in 2007 was rushed to a decision and two jurors reported that they were coerced into voting for a conviction, a lawyer for the Miller Place man argued Friday in appeals court.

Police mug shot of Darren Lynch. Opening arguments began Tuesday afternoon in the murder trial of a Queens man charged with killing two men over a drug deal gone bad, then chopping up their bodies and burying them in Coram in 2008.

The sound of silence has largely replaced the noise of partisan bickering that too often served as the theme music in the Town of Brookhaven.

Four schools in the Miller Place School District were placed on lockdown Friday following an unspecified "parental domestic situation," officials said.

Charles J. Tuzzolo, 48, of 49 Gold Place, was also charged with criminal possession of a control substance and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

John White is free on bail pending the outcome of his appeal in the fatal shooting of a Selden teen.

The district sent out an automated phone call around 11 a.m. to parents notifying them of the situation, according to Nina Jordan , whose 5-year-old son attends kindergarten at Andrew Muller Primary School.