06.02.2026 News Greenport man, 37, accused of sending indecent photo, arranging meetup with teen at Topgolf A 37-year-old Greenport man was arrested Monday after allegedly sending an indecent photo to a person he believed was a 13-year-old girl and arranging to meet her at Topgolf...
03.24.2026 News Shelter Island homicide remains unsolved after eight years Eight years ago this month, on March 19, 2018, 87-year-old retired Episcopal minister the Rev. Paul Wancura was found barely conscious, wrists bound, alone in his Silver Beach home...
02.27.2026 News Son of Riverhead woman found dead charged with her murder A Riverhead man was arrested Wednesday, Feb. 25, and charged with second-degree murder in the death of his mother, a longtime Riverhead Raceway employee whose body was found in Manorville...
02.16.2026 Featured Story SCPD: Body found in Manorville woods is missing Riverhead woman Kathleen Harrison Trent of Riverhead, 63, who was first reported missing to the Riverhead Town Police Department on Jan. 29, was identified as the woman whose body was found in...
08.18.2025 News Area PDs run shooter drill at Southold Elementary It’s the horror no parent wants to experience, and a harsh reality of today’s world: school shootings. More than 273 active shooter incidents have been reported in the United...
03.20.2025 News Butterfly Effect Project cancels fundraiser amid threats Threatening racist phone calls and hateful remarks aimed at the Riverhead-based nonprofit The Butterfly Effect Project have escalated in the past week, so much so that founder Tijuana Fulford...
08.25.2023 News Local first responders practice saving ‘victims’ during mass casualty incident training A teenage volunteer in a white T-shirt stained with fake blood lay on her back, clutching the prosthetic wound on her side, crying for help from the baseball field...
06.05.2023 News Bomb threat prompts evacuation of Home Depot and surrounding stores A bomb threat phoned into Home Depot on Route 58 in Riverhead Monday morning prompted an evacuation and a police search with a bomb-sniffing dog. After receiving the threat...