Sayville-Bayport
A Sayville School District elementary school custodian has been arrested for allegedly possessing child pornography, police said. Shawn Mead, 44, a custodian at , was found to be in possession of numerous pornographic digital images that included videos and photos of young children engaged in sexual activity, police said.
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West Islip
New York Islanders goalie Rick DiPietro and his wife Cassie dropped by West Islip's Veterinary Medical Center of Long Island on Thursday to visit Joey, the pitbull puppy that was found from a car inside of a bag near the Pilgrim State Medical Center two weeks ago with a broken neck and signs of other abuse.
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Babylon Village
A fire tore through a West Babylon home on Thursday afternoon, leaving much of the house just a shell.
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Lindenhurst
Suffolk Police are investigating an armed robbery that took place on Wednesday night at a Lindenhurst gas station.
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Patchogue
The Town of Smithtown was robbed of more than $200,000 by a trio operating a recycling scheme in town for more than two years, officials said, and that amount is likely to increase. One of those men, Michael Dalessandro, 43, of East Patchogue, pleaded not guilty Thursday to a grand larceny charge.
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Medford
A Smithtown Eagle Scout provided a makeover for the Medford campus of Developmental Disabilities Institute (DDI) for his community service project.
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Sachem
A Ronkonkoma man was arrested for drug possession after a Suffolk County Sheriff says he noticed the man preparing a bag of cocaine in plain sight.
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Deer Park-North Babylon
A North Babylon woman who was seriously injured in a house explosion in Brentwood last week, died Tuesday at Stony Brook University Medical Center, Suffolk County Police said.
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Half Hollow Hills
FUBU founder, Daymond John went from taking shrimp orders at Red Lobster to serving investment deals on ABC’s “Shark Tank.” The big fish is a multimillionaire now, but he got his start in the small pond of Huntington, he told a group of young entrepreneurs last week in Melville.
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