Riverhead, NY

Suffolk County detectives are investigating after a boyfriend and girlfriend were found dead at their Long Island residence, authorities announced Thursday.

Get our Hamptons Insider newsletters delivered direct to you. A third Riverhead-based farmer received New York State approval to start growing recently legalized recreational adult-use marijuana. Joseph Losicco, who is affiliated with Newbridge Greenhouses Inc. on Main Street, was among the latest farmers to be awarded a conditional cultivation license...

A young couple was found dead in their Long Island home after shots were fired inside, Suffolk County police said. Detectives are investigating after a 911 call from a home on Park Circle in Shirley led officers to find two people dead inside the residence just before 5 p.m. Thursday. Police said that 20-year-old Destiny Leinfus and 19-year-old Gavin Bifalco were found dead, both with gunshot wounds.

Police say 57-year-old Rodney Brumsey was crossing the train tracks near North Bishop and Moses lanes Wednesday afternoon around 3:40 p.m.

The Suffolk County Police Department’s arson squad is investigating a fire at a vacant building early this morning on property owned by the Town of Riverhead on Sound Avenue in Baiting Hollow. Riverhead Police and the Riverhead Fire Department responded to a call about fire at a residence at...

DIX HILLS, N.Y. -- On Long Island, four people who were rescued from a crash are now facing weapons charges.Suffolk County Police say it all started just before 1 a.m. Thursday when officers saw a car speeding and swerving on Route 231 in North Babylon. Officers tried to pull the vehicle over, but the driver sped away.The car then crashed into a tree, overturned and caught fire on Commack Road in Dix Hills.Police rescued the driver and three passengers. They later found a loaded gun.All four now face multiple charges. One of the passengers also faces drug charges.All are expected to survive.

The Riverhead Town Board recently decided it would not pursue establishing a Community Housing Fund, which would enhance affordable housing opportunities for years to come. Riverhead has an “adequate” amount of affordable housing, according to town officials. We disagree. Home prices and rents have skyrocketed since the pandemic....

A Long Island resident who was allegedly standing on the tracks was hit and killed by a train. The incident occurred in Southampton around 3:40 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 17. According to MTA officials, at about 3:40 p.m., the 3 p.m train from Speonk to Montauk fatally struck Rodney E. Brumsey, age 57, of Southampton, who was on the tracks west of Southampton Station near the Moses Lane grade crossing.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Police Sixth Precinct Crime Section. officers are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the driver of a vehicle that. struck a male pedestrian in Farmingville and fled the scene last month. A 36-year-old man was walking northbound on Hillside Road...

Just as wealthy New Yorkers flock to the Hamptons during the summer, the city’s outdoor-dining wars have headed for the beach as well. Restaurateurs from Southampton to Montauk are complaining that local officials are trying to ruin their business by requesting that outdoor-dining structures be taken down, according to a new report from the New York Post. In some cases, the restaurants are facing inspections and fines for not adhering to pre-pandemic rules. “We just want to survive. We pay rent year-round and just have this three-month window to make money in this little village,” Zach Erdem, the owner of 75 Main...

Police on Long Island are working to identify two burglars who were caught on surveillance video breaking into a deli. The footage shows the pair prying open the door of Gold Coast Good 2 Go Delicatessen, located on Woodbury Road in Cold Spring Harbor, at around 4 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 9.

A proposed 412,000-square-foot industrial building on a 30-acre site on Middle Country Road in Calverton cleared a key milestone in the review process yesterday, with the Riverhead Planning Board’s acceptance of the developer’s final environmental impact statement. The Planning Board at its last meeting on Aug. 2 tabled...

The males described as white then yelled anti-LGBTQ slurs.

SAYVILLE, N.Y. (PIX11) — Humane Long Island called on the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Suffolk County Department of Parks to investigate the deaths of more than 100 snapping turtle hatchlings in Sayville. According to a spokesperson, a resident of Meadow Croft Estate found the baby turtles mowed down by Suffolk County […]

How many pets have you had in your lifetime? I couldn't tell you the number I've had in my 55 years but I know there were many cats, a coupe of dogs and goldfish. I'd say the most "exotic" pet I have owned were a school of sea-monkeys that I sent away for.

A man was charged with driving while intoxicated after police said he was found unconscious in a minivan with a screaming baby on Long Island. The incident happened in Bellport at about 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 17, the Suffolk County Police Department said. A 911 caller reported an unresponsive...

Long Islanders are being asked to conserve water as the region deals with a severe drought.

The New York State Department of Transportation today advised motorists that beginning Monday, August 22, the westbound Southern State Parkway will be closed to traffic between Exit 32 (State Route 110) and Exit 27 (Wantagh State Parkway) in the Towns of Hempstead and Oyster Bay in Nassau County and the Town of Babylon, Suffolk County; on weeknights from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.

Get our Hamptons Insider newsletters delivered direct to you. Get out and about in the Hamptons to enjoy art, live shows, workshops, outdoor activities and more, August 20–25, 2022. You can find more things to do this season with our Summer 2022 Calendar: Can’t-Miss Hamptons & North Fork Events....

Suffolk County Police last night arrested a man for Leandra’s Law for driving while under the influence of drugs with his one-year-old child in his vehicle in Bellport. A 911 caller reported an unresponsive man in the driver’s seat of a parked 2008 Toyota Sienna, which was idling in the middle of the roadway, with a screaming infant in the vehicle at 7:33 p.m. Upon arrival of EMS personnel, Harry Penny was found to be unconscious in the driver’s seat of the vehicle with his one-year-old son in the backseat.