Riverhead News

One might easily have mistaken downtown Riverhead on Sunday for a scene straight from Paris or Italy as artists gathered for a popular street painting festival.

Riverhead Town Police are reporting to the scene of a serious accident at Roanoke and Reeves Avenue in Riverhead.

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A Suffolk County corrections officer allegedly shot an intruder after he confronted him in his Riverhead home, police say.

With all eyes on Greenport this Memorial Day weekend, the Long Island Aquarium & Exhibition Center is offering a stress-free way to get to the festivities by boat .

Situated on two public 18-hole golf courses, Stonewalls in Riverhead, at the Woods at Cherry Creek Golf Club, serves the kind of fare that has come to be expected at prestigious country clubs, but the ambience is anything but stuffy."The best part about owning a restaurant out here is the people," says manager Jeff Abinette.

Memorial Day weekend is a time not only for firing up the grill and hosting family gatherings -- it's a moment to remember the men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.

Accident. Left lane blocked on SUNRISE HWY/NY RT-27 EB west of CONNETQUOT AVE/X46. Stop and go traffic from CARLETON AVE/X46 in EAST ISLIP Accident.

Tears streamed down the faces of family and friends of a woman found dead in Riverhead as they faced that man who allegedly killed her in a Riverside courtroom on Friday.

Pat Snyder, executive director of East End Arts , stopped by Town Hall on Thursday with a present for town board members -- T-shirts emblazoned with a street painting of a famous Van Gogh self-portrait. Snyder reminded the board that on Sunday, the 1 6th Annual Community Mosaic Street Painting Festival will take place in downtown Riverhead on East ... (more)

The New York wine outlet in Shanghai will showcase 30 wines from across the state, though most are made on Long Island, according to a statement.

NASCAR will soon be making the Town of Riverhead a little bit greener. According to Riverhead Town Supervisor Sean Walter, NASCAR has chosen the Riverhead Raceway for a sustainability event that will bring trees to the area.

A man has been charged with murder after Mirian Garcia, 29, was found dead last week behind the Department of Motor Vehicles in Riverhead allegedly strangled her with a belt after raping her.

An undocumented Guatemalan man arrested for the murder of Flanders resident Mirian Yohanna Garcia Mancilla has been indicted by a Suffolk County grand jury.

The following information was supplied by police departments on the East End. A criminal charge is only an accusation and does not indicate guilt.

Sunday bus service is back. The popular East End program will kick off on Sunday and run from Memorial Day weekend through Columbus Day weekend.

Candice A. Hughes, 21, of Riverhead , was arrested on May 16 at 10:44 p.m. on West Main Street in Riverhead and charged with posession of marijuana.

In WEST HEMPSTEAD road construction. right lane closed on RT-24/HEMPSTEAD TURNPIKE WB between S CHERRY VALLEY AVE and before NASSAU BLVD In COMMACK right lane blocked on NY RT-25 WB approaching CR-14/INDIAN HEAD RD and before SUNKEN MEADOW PKY North Country Rd Closed between and Stony Brook Rd and Wellington Dr In STONY BROOK closed due to ... (more)

In SUFFOLK CNTY two lanes closed on THE L.I.E./I-495 WB at X52/COMMACK RD. Stopped traffic from X53/SAGTIKOS PKWY In YAPHANK closed due to accident on MILL RD EB at COUNTY RTE 21/MAIN ST.