Suffolk County News

The Suffolk County United Veterans provides food and shelter to veterans in need. The organization has food pantries in Riverhead and Yaphank.

It’s that time of year again for Violets Florist and Gifts, a small flower shop in the East Coast’s largest industrial park, Hauppauge Industrial Park. Suzanne Smith, 37, owner of the flower shop, sees a line of guys holding plush toys and looking at boxes of chocolates while they wait to pick up flowers every Valentine’s Day.

Owners of a Commack hotel planning a renovation must remove or replace railroad ties as part of a property cleanup before Smithtown planners will consider a requested zoning change, town officials have told the hotel’s attorney.

Nearly two dozen Long Island public officials, including its two county executives, gathered Friday to support a proposed state law to end the Metropolitan Transportation Authority payroll tax on large municipalities.

I am having a difficult time getting two broken utility poles in front of the Emma S. Clark Memorial Library in Setauket removed. Both poles are dangerously fractured and look to be holding on by splinters. This is of course a safety concern -- we are next door to an elementary school and the sidewalk is used by students.

A Huntington man who drove the wrong way for about five miles Friday on the Southern State Parkway between Islip Terrace and North Bay Shore faces a charge of driving while under the influence of drugs, State Police said.

A driver stopped after his vehicle swerved on County Road 19 in Holbrook told police he had been trying to blow into an interlock device installed after a DWI conviction, Suffolk County police said.

A group of Suffolk County law enforcement officials, including Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota, on Friday threw its backing behind a proposal by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to expand the state DNA Databank -- saying it will solve crimes.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Quogue Village police are looking for the driver of a green minivan that struck and injured a village public works employee on Wednesday.

Crime Stoppers and Third Squad detectives are investigating the December burglary of a Brentwood medical office, Suffolk County police said Friday.

Crime Stoppers and Seventh Squad detectives are searching for a delivery driver for a home-heating oil company who made off with more than $7,000 in cash he collected from customers, Suffolk County police said Friday.

A female jogger escaped a man who accosted her in a Noyack park Thursday afternoon after hitting him with her iPod -- and running off, police said.

A derailment of a New York & Atlantic Railway freight locomotive in Wyandanch caused a temporary suspension of service on the Long Island Rail Road's Ronkonkoma branch early Friday, officials said.

A Bohemia gun store owner accused of illegally trafficking in firearms stored handguns and about 300 rifles and shotguns in his unlocked garage, the Suffolk district attorney said Thursday.

A Cub Scout trailer stolen last month from an Islip parking lot has been found by a jogger in Brightwaters, Suffolk police said Thursday.

Suffolk police brass Thursday announced a series of broad changes to the department they recently took over, highlighting placement of intelligence officers in precincts and the creation of a bureau to track community complaints.

Preliminary findings from a yearlong probe of groundwater contamination at compost and mulch facilities in and around Yaphank are leading regulators to rethink rules that govern all organic-waste facilities in New York, a top state environmental official said.

Islip officials are working to update the town law against discriminatory housing practices, adding age, sexual orientation, marital, familial and military status to the list of no-nos banned under town code.

A proposal to join the South Fork and part of the North Fork into a single Assembly district would reduce their voice in state government, a Republican assemblyman says.

Suffolk police Thursday released a sketch of one of two men they say harassed a 14-year-old girl after following her from a school bus stop in Lake Grove on Nov. 17.