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East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo confirmed that the Secret Service detained "a subject who appears to be a freelance photographer" on the property line of the Clintons' rental home Sunday night.

The future of a 19-acre Amagansett parcel could include crop production, a center for local small farms and food producers, a horse rescue and breeding operation, or even a golf driving range.

It is over a year since The Star last reported on progress on the national historic landmark in East Hampton that is being restored to its former somewhat unorthodox glory.

A Northport man who refused to surrender to police despite being Tasered twice was finally brought down by an officer using a flashlight and a baton, East Hampton Village police reported.

The shark found dead at an Amagansett ocean beach on Tuesday evening has been officially identified as a 2-year-old male great white. Scientists will use its carcass to learn more about the species.

Richard G. Hendrickson, a volunteer United States Cooperative weather observer since 1930, will be honored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for his longstanding service on Sunday.

Two people were arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens on Thursday night on charges in connection with making terrorist threats against the Jewish Center of the Hamptons over the past several months, East Hampton Village police said Friday.

A Turkish couple living in Riverhead appeared to have made up the threats in an attempt to ensnare a third person with whom they had a dispute. Emails indicated the attack would be during the month of Ramadan, which began on June 28.

Jerome Walker Jr. was born at home three months premature. His parents believe that if an ambulance volunteer had not arrived when he did, their only son would never have survived, growing into a healthy, college-bound young man.

Shock waves went through the East Hampton School Board meeting Tuesday night when it was learned that Patricia Hope, one of the board's most outspoken members, had resigned.

"Due to compelling personal and professional circumstances, I find it necessary to withdraw from membership on the East Hampton School Board, effective immediately," Ms. Hope wrote to Kerri Stevens, the district clerk, in a letter dated July 7.

Suse and Peter Lowenstein have withdrawn their offer to give Ms. Lowenstein’s terrorism-memorial sculpture, “Dark Elegy,” to East Hampton Town for placement in Montauk’s Kirk Park.

The $6.5 million expansion and renovation of the East Hampton Library, which adds 6,800 square feet housing a new children's reading room and the Baldwin Family Lecture Room, will be unveiled Saturday at 11:30 a.m.

The polls are open from 2 to 8 p.m., as Bridgehampton decides on its school district revote.

By a vote of 240 to 145, Bridgehampton voters agreed to pierce the tax cap on a $12.3 million budget for the 2014-15 school year.

George Hirsch's "Lifestyle" television series appearing locally on WLIW and numerous outlets nationwide, highlights the food and foodies of his home, the South Fork.

Gen. Michael Hayden, a former director of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, was this year's guest speaker at the Memorial Day parade and services in East Hampton.

Voters in Bridgehampton and East Hampton school districts are considering budgets that pierce the 2-percent tax cap.

A prosecutor in the Jason Lee rape case said that a private investigator met with the alleged victim in Ireland and has asked a judge for an order of protection

A temporary restraining order issued against Cyril’s Fish House in State Supreme Court last month prohibits the Napeague hot spot from using its outdoor bar and patio

Anthony Drexel Duke, who established a camp for inner-city youths in 1937, died Wednesday in Florida at 95.

Firefighters responded to a daybreak blaze in an oceanfront house on Dune Road in Bridgehampton.

"They love garbage, and that's what gets them close to people," Dell Cullum, a photographer and wildlife trapper, said.

East Hampton officials drew the line last week at some of the work being done here by PSEG Long Island and issued a stop-work order. PSEG Long Island fights back by seeking restraining order

Richard Gere’s six-acre Strongheart estate on North Haven, originally priced at $65 million, has been reduced to $56 million after nine months on the market. The selling agent talks about the art of pricing a property when comps are few and far between.

Work in January at Cyril’s Fish House on Napeague resulted in a stop-work order issued by the East Hampton Town chief building inspector and two summonses for removing fuel tanks without a building permit

Recent developments have made the prospect of a planned mass killing of deer in East Hampton Town and Village extremely unlikely after a Judge ordered a delay and supervisor cited need for impact study.

Waving placards and chanting, some 250 people marched from Hook Mill to Herrick Park in East Hampton Village on Saturday afternoon, proclaiming their opposition to the deer culling planned by the village and East Hampton Town

A vacant one-story building on the Montauk Highway in East Hampton that once housed antiques shops and a plumbing contractor could become the eastern headquarters of Saunders and Associates if an apparently unprecedented zoning proposal is approved by the town planning board

Johnny Rade is Montauk’s undisputed king of rod-and-reel commercial fishing. He’s “high-hook” in dockside parlance, a man who has been fishing the area for a half century, knows the bottom features like the palm of his hand, and the tides. He can smell weather coming, and he can tell you what kind of fish is mouthing his bait before he sets the hook.

Angus Wilson knew this was an unusual year when surfers at Shinnecock Inlet asked him recently if he was there to see the owls.