Acting Supreme Court Justice Fernando Camacho ruled last Tuesday that eight young men he had placed at Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch in Riverhead will no longer be required to stay there. READ
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Mariyah Zeigler was just 16 years old when she was convicted of first-degree robbery and sentenced to five years in a maximum security prison in Westchester County. She recounted a childhood marred by domestic abuse, crime and bullying at school during a public hearing on criminal justice reform Friday at Touro Law Center in Central Islip.
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During a brief court appearance in Central Islip Monday, the case against Thomas Murphy, the Holbrook man accused of a deadly drunk driving crash that left 12-year-old Andrew McMorris dead last fall, was adjourned once more. (more…)
A wrong-way driver who crashed into and killed an Aquebogue man in a 2015 collision on Sunrise Highway in Yaphank was convicted Monday of manslaughter and driving while intoxicated, but was acquitted of second-degree murder by depraved indifference and reckless endangerment. READ
A Riverhead woman was sentenced to two-to-four years in jail Wednesday as a result of leading police on a high-speed chase through three towns last September that involved stolen cars, an escape from police custody and several car collisions, according to police. READ