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This week on the roads saw alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents, felony arrests, and dangerously high blood-alcohol readings.

An organizer of an alleged summer share house has been charged by East Hampton Town officials with several violations. Enforcers first visited the property in May but did not issue the summonses until after a drunken-driving defendant's moment of honesty in justice court proceeding.

Fire Departments from East Hampton, Sag Harbor, and Bridgehampton were among the dozen called to assist Southampton firefighters in battling a massive fire on Wyandanch Lane Saturday afternoon.

Deborah Ann Light, a philanthropist, founding member of the Peconic Land Trust, and a pioneering Wiccan priestess, died on Tuesday in Gainesville, Fla., after a long illness. She was 80.

Three dead deer, apparently a doe and two fawns, were found in a cluster in an open field on the corner of Wainscott's Main Street and Town Line Road.

A bicyclist received non-life-threatening injuries when he tried to pass a truck as it was turning onto Main Street from Mill Hill Lane in East Hampton Village on Thursday afternoon, according to police.

Men in traffic stop, already targets of an ongoing investigation, were said to have more than six ounces of cocaine in their possession.

A Sag Harbor driver who police said just missed hitting three pedestrians on Ocean Avenue in East Hampton Village, including a mother and her 6-month-old baby, was arrested Wednesday and charged with reckless driving and driving with ability impaired by drugs.

David Disick, who was hit by a car while riding his bicycle on the Napeague stretch Sunday afternoon, died in Stony Brook University Hospital on Wednesday, East Hampton Town police said.

A Wainscott couple claim they were tortured and humiliated in 2012 after being arrested for protesting during a fund-raiser for Mitt Romney at Ron Perelman's estate on Georgica Pond.

There were several very serious accidents on the road over the Fourth of July weekend.

An accident in front of Buzz Chew on County Road 39 in Southampton has closed the road in both directions.

East Hampton Town police responded to what may well be a record number of incidents this past three-day weekend.

Montauk residents say the party town scene is out of control.

A box truck careened into a pole in front of SRK Pools on Montauk Highway in Wainscott Tuesday afternoon.

In the air, it was business as usual despite the big holiday weekend, said the East Hampton Airport manager, though there were plenty of "agitated voicemails" from the folks on the ground.

Visitors from Mattituck were injured early Sunday on Montauk Highway. One victim was flown to Stony Brook University Hospital in critial condition.

A fire erupted under the hood of a minivan that hit the driver's side door of a pickup truck on Cedar Street in East Hampton on Monday morning.

A Patchogue woman was taken to Southampton Hospital on Monday afternoon after being thrown from a Schwinn moped she was riding on South Emerson Avenue in Montauk.

Montauk Highway between Montauk and Amagansett was briefly closed, but has since been reopened.

Just as Amagansett firefighters were preparing to leave the firehouse to standby at the Devon Yacht Club fireworks they were called to a gas grill fire on the Fourth of July.

Everyone knows about K9s, dogs that help the military and police save lives and chase suspects, among other heroic missions, but who knew the East Hampton Town Animal Control Department had two dogs as auxiliary staff members?

The Bridgehampton Fire Department responded to a small fire coming from a ceiling in a Sagg Main Street house on Sunday morning.

One of the young men injured in an early-morning crash was set to graduate from East Hampton High School on Friday.

A Bridgehampton man accused of assaulting an elderly Northwest Woods woman was indicted by a grand jury last Thursday on multiple felony charges, and was re-arraigned in Riverside Wednesday

A man fell while possibly experiencing a medical problem aboard the Montauk Star charter boat Wednesday morning, according to the Coast Guard.

Over the weekend, there were two drunken-driving arrests involving accidents here, police said, including one in which a driver got into not one, but two crashes in two different townships. 

An Oakdale man led East Hampton Village police on a chase Sunday night that ended when he allegedly crashed the 2001 Nissan Pathfinder he was driving through a fence and into a construction site at a busy Bridgehampton intersection.

An Oakdale man led East Hampton Village police on a chase Sunday night that ended when he allegedly crashed the 2001 Nissan Pathfinder he was driving through a fence and into a construction site at busy Bridgehampton intersection.

A woman who fell off a bicycle, and a man who fell from a 15-foot ladder, were flown within a half-hour of each other to Stony Brook University Hospital, the nearest trauma center.

The author died during a physical therapy session in Sag Harbor.