A police video recording of the DWI arrest of Southampton Town Supervisor Linda Kabot on Labor Day in Westhampton Beach will most likely be used as evidence against her if... more
Gerardo Rojas-Martinez, 33, of Southampton was in a March 23 car accident on Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays just before 11:30pm, where he is alleged to have crashed into a parked vehicle. Responding Town Police determined he was intoxicated. The unlicensed Rojas-Martinez faces a first-offense DWI charge, a misdemeanor. He faces an additional misdemeanor for an unsafe lane-change, according to police. Oscar Riquiac-Conoz, 42, of Speonk was southbound on Mill Road in Remsenberg on the evening of March 18 with an expired inspection certificate and obstructed license plate on his 2005 Toyota, Town Police allege. Riquiac-Conoz was pulled over and ...
by Staff Writer
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — An “unknown subject” went to Southampton Village Police headquarters on March 24 to turn in a wallet found on Narrow Lane. The wallet contained a “prop $100 bill,” among other items. SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Village Police responded to the Coopers Beach parking lot on Meadow Lane on the evening of March 22 following a report that someone was offering free doughnuts. Instead, police found a young person without a driver’s license freely doing “doughnuts” in the parking lot on his learner’s permit. He was warned, and his mom was called. SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A man believed he ...
by Staff Writer
Former 3rd District U.S. Representative George Santos said last week that he will run for the seat currently held by 1st District U.S. Representative Nick LaLota as an independent, abandoning his earlier plan to run a primary against LaLota as an “Ultra-MAGA” alternative to the first-term Republican. According to the New York State Board of Elections, Santos will have to garner 3,500 signatures as an unaffiliated candidate to get on the ballot in November. He would have needed to gather about 1,000 signatures to run as a Republican. Santos was expelled from Congress late last year following a damning report ...
by Tom Gogola
Thomas Falcone announced last week that he would be leaving his post as chief executive officer of the Long Island Power Authority in May. It was “unexpected,” said State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., who has been working hard in Albany to move LIPA away from its current model to a true public utility. Falcone’s departure is a curveball that “brings into question the future direction of LIPA,” Thiele has said. But a few days before his announcement clouded the larger picture, Falcone provided a much clearer view of the near- and long-term future of electricity on Long Island, and ...
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