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Suffolk County, NY

Former captain Joseph Hazelwood of the tanker Exxon Valdez, owned by US petroleum giant Exxon Corporation, is escorted by police official to his arraignment inside Suffolk County courthouse 05 April 1989 on charges stemming from 24 March 1989 Alaskan oil disaster. 24 March 1989, in the early morning hours, a disastrous accident happened in the water of Prince William Sound off Alaska, when the tanker Exxon Valdez hit a submerged reef and lost 11 million gallons of crude oil into the waters of the Sound, near Oil Pipeline tanker terminal in Valdez Harbor.

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  • Driver injured when car hits utility pole

    driver who smashed his car into a utility pole in Copiague late Monday was taken to a nearby hospital with cracked ribs, Suffolk County police said.Juan Baez Rodriguez, 25, of Copiague was alone in a 2004 Honda sedan when he hit a Long Island Power Authority 7:45 AM Read more »

  • Lawmakers debate including LI in gambling plan

    in the state. Some Island lawmakers are looking for permission to allow off-track betting corporations in Nassau and Suffolk counties to offer video slot machines, arguing that downstate should get a share of new gambling revenue.Top politicians had different 6/18/13 Read more »

  • Ridership for Sunday bus service shows big jump

    new Sunday bus service on the East End has gotten off to an impressive start, according to county Legis. Jay Schneiderman, who said ridership on some runs this year is exceeding last year's by nearly 50 percent.The buses, which operate from Memorial Day to 6/18/13 Read more »

  • Bellone tweaks plan to merge Suffolk comptroller, treasurer jobs

    year, also is a Republican.Carpenter on Tuesday questioned Bellone's savings estimates. She told county lawmakers that Suffolk would be better off doing away with the salaries of Bellone's performance management team, which is tasked with streamlining government 6/18/13 Read more »

  • Counties' borrowing plan hits apparent dead end

    Nassau Democrats assailed the plan , saying it would allow the Mangano administration to sidestep the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, a state panel that controls county finances.Suffolk and Nassau officials have said Suffolk originated the proposal. 6/18/13 Read more »

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About Suffolk County, NY

Suffolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York on the eastern portion of Long Island. As of the 2000 census, the population was 1,419,369. It was named for the county of Suffolk in England, from which its earliest settlers came. The county seat is Riverhead, though many county offices are in Hauppauge on the west side of the county where most of the population lives. There are also offices in Smithtown, for the legislature, Yaphank, and Farmingville.

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