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Sports
Eagles release Riverhead's Miguel Maysonet
May 20, 2013
Education
Voters' Guide: Riverhead Central School District
May 20, 2013
Voters' Guide: Shoreham-Wading River schools
May 20, 2013
Business
Hyatt Place staffers help clean up downtown
May 13, 2013
New vermouth, Atsby, made in Mattituck
May 13, 2013
Community
Laurel woman's novel published posthumously
May 19, 2013
Photos: Hallockville's Fleece and Fiber Fair
May 19, 2013
Hyatt Place staffers help clean up downtown
May 13, 2013
Obituaries
Christine Vega
May 15, 2013
Oleta Marie Melissari
May 14, 2013
Charles H. Bartlett Jr.
May 14, 2013
Real Estate
North Forkers preparing for boxwood blight
May 20, 2013
Real Estate Transfers
May 10, 2013
Real Estate Transfers
May 2, 2013
Police News
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Confrontation over break-ins led to Polish Town shooting
Three hours after shotgun blasts sent shockwaves through Polish Town and a Riverhead woman to the hospital, Riverhead and New York State police used a K9 to capture the teenager they say pulled the trigger. Nathan Streit, 17, who police say is homeless, was found hiding inside a Osborn Avenue house...
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Polish Town store clerks wrestle armed robber to the ground
Less than 30 minutes after a shooting sent a Polish Town woman to a hospital Monday night, three employees at a store on nearby Osborn Avenue wrestled an armed robber to the ground in an unrelated incident. Nicholas Savino, 33, of Riverhead displayed a handgun as he entered International Connection and...
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Update: Man taken into custody after shooting, K9 search
Update, 11:45 p.m.: Police brought a man into custody shortly before 11:30 p.m. He was removed from a house on Osborn Avenue, following a K9 search performed by police officers from Riverhead and New York State. Police had been at the scene on Osborn for more than two hours, frequently shining...
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Off-duty cop helps save Wading River man’s life
An off-duty police officer from Mattituck on his way home from Advanced Life Support training, saved the life of an 86-year-old Wading River man on Friday, police said. Lance Prager, an Emergency Services section officer with the Suffolk County Police Department, witnessed the man suffering cardiac arrest at the Agway store...
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Riverhead principal cleared in civil rights case
A federal jury has rejected a former Riverhead Middle School student's claims that he was illegally searched by the school's principal in 2007, saying the student and his mother failed to prove the search ever occurred. The jury deliberated for three hours in U.S. Eastern District Court Monday before reaching a...
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Thieves swipe Northampton sign from Lake Avenue
A sign welcoming people to Northampton on the west side of Lake Avenue has been stolen. The sign theft was reported on Sunday, May 12 , and is believed to have taken place sometime between May 9 and May 12, Southampton Town police said. [Related: Northampton, has it ever truly existed?] It was...
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Update: Police identify Selden man killed in Wading River crash
Riverhead Town police have identified a 62-year-old Selden man as the person killed in a Wading River car crash that shut Route 25A early Friday, authorities said. Daniel Kiernan was driving east on Route 25A in a 1986 Chevrolet pickup near the Dunkin' Donuts about 6:20 a.m. when he swerved into the...
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Federal judge tosses most charges against Riverhead schools
Only one defendant accused in a civil rights and privacy lawsuit over an alleged illegal search in Riverhead Middle School in 2007 is still facing charges after a federal judge threw out most of the case Thursday. Judge Arthur Spatt made his decision to toss all but one of 10 charges...
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Cops: Heroin, cocaine bust at local laundromat
East End Drug Task Force officers arrested two men on heroin and cocaine charges during a drug bust at a Riverhead laundromat Tuesday evening, police said. Michael Bale, 47, of Aquebogue, and James Liggon, 56, of Shirley, were pulled from a van and arrested about 6:45 p.m. outside Laundry Palace on Harrison...
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Alleged hit-and-run driver released from jail
Update: Jacqueline Celentano, who was arrested Tuesday in connection with the hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a Riverhead man early Sunday in Flanders, posted $30,000 bond and was released from jail Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. Ms. Celentano, 21, of Calverton was arraigned in Southampton Justice Court Wednesday morning on a felony...
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Alleged lotto scammers face up to 15 years if convicted
Two of three local gas station workers accused of trying to scam a construction worker out of $74,000 in Take 5 lottery winnings in April answered to a slew of criminal charges Tuesday in First District Court in Central Islip, authorities said. Southampton Town police initially charged Yalcin Nergiz, 41, Yunis...
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Firefighters respond to hospital, Glenwood Village
The Riverhead Fire Department responded to a report of smoke in Peconic Bay Medical Center radiology department shortly before noon Monday. Firefighters went on the roof with a thermal camera to try to find signs of heat, according to First Assistant Fire Chief Joe Raynor. He said a faulty heating or air...
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Video: Truck ignites in flames on Route 58 in Riverhead
A pickup truck caught fire on Route 58 near Ostrander Avenue shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday, police and fire officials said. The driver was unharmed and the fire was the result of a mechanical failure, police said. The incident occurred just outside the Peconic Bay Diner. ...
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After Riverhead settles, defendants win suit
Five months after Riverhead Town voted to pay $1 million to settle its end of the nine-year-old Field Day lawsuit, a jury has ruled in favor of the remaining defendants in the case. Court officials said there is currently no order requiring the Field Day concert promoters to pay legal fees...
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Cops: 30 trees stolen from Jamesport nursery
A Jamesport nursery owner reported that someone took about 30 trees from his field on Herricks Lane, Riverhead police said. Lou Caracciolo of Shade Trees Nursery's told the News-Review he noticed some trees were missing from a parcel about a half-mile from the nursery's main office Wednesday. On Thursday, he realized more...
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Update: Police say man who jumped day care fence was drunk
UPDATE (May 8): The man accused of jumping into a day care playground last Tuesday and grabbing a child by the hand was likely drunk at the time of the incident, Riverhead police said. Lt. Rick Boden said it appears Gemler Ramos, who was arrested Friday on a criminal trespassing charge, did...
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Police investigating attempted robbery
Police are investigating an attempted robbery involving a handgun at a Riverhead gas station early Friday, police said. Riverhead police received word about 12:30 a.m. that a male suspect displaying a black semiautomatic handgun and approached another man from behind while in the Mobile Gas parking lot on Route 58, police...
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Cops: Riverside man confronted by man with handgun
A Riverside man reported to police last week that he was confronted by a man who threatened him with a handgun in Riverside, according to a Southampton Town police report. The suspect then walked away after seeing police cars in the area, the report reads. The victim said he fears for...
