07.14.2020 News Greenport man charged in fatal hit and run: ‘I never stopped the car to see if she was OK’ A 20-year-old Greenport man has been charged in the fatal hit-and-run crash on Front Street Monday. Denilson Eduardo Gomez Jolon was arrested about 12 hours after the crash, when...
03.10.2018 Police Cops: Mattituck man charged with DWI, leaving scene of accident A Mattituck man who was spotted driving erratically at a high rate of speed was arrested for driving while intoxicated in Peconic Friday night and was also found to...
01.08.2018 Police Update: Driver charged after hit-and-run in Mattituck Monday Update, Jan. 9, 11:15 a.m.: A 90-year-old Mattituck man was charged with leaving the scene of an accident that left a woman with a hip injury on Monday, Southold...
08.26.2017 Police Police searching for driver of hit and run following Mattituck crash Southold Town police are searching for the driver who struck two bicyclists in Mattituck and fled the scene Saturday afternoon.
01.23.2015 Editorials Editorial: Let’s find a real way to stop drunken driving Driving isn’t a constitutional right. And the more innocent lives we see lost on our local roadways, the clearer it becomes that it shouldn’t be treated as such.
01.20.2015 Government Suffolk DA, families calling for harsher hit-and-run penalties Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota and the families of hit-and-run victims are calling on state lawmakers to increase penalties for those convicted of fleeing the scene of a...
01.16.2015 Community One year later, they remember fatal hit-and-run victim Among the hugs and tears shed beside an all too familiar stretch of Main Road Friday morning, laughs and lanterns filled the air long before the sun came up...
06.19.2014 Editorials Editorial: We cannot reward drivers for fleeing accidents For the second time in two years, proposed increases in the penalties for hit-and-run drivers have gone down to the wire in the state Legislature.
06.12.2014 Government Assemblymen pushing for hit-and-run regs before session ends With just five days left in the New York State Assembly session, North Fork and East End lawmakers are making a last-minute push to drum up support for bills...
08.25.2013 Police Cops: Seafood delivery truck driver charged in hit-and-run DWI A seafood delivery truck driver from Southold was arrested on drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident charges after a two-car crash Saturday evening in Riverhead, authorities...
