Godinez Rosendo, 35, of Southampton, southbound on Abraham’s Path in a Warren’s Nursery Ford pickup, told police a 10-foot sewage pipe had fallen off the truck.

An East Hampton man who allegedly struck his wife last Thursday with the blunt edge of a machete, bruising and cutting her, has been charged with felony assault.

Police got a tip that a car was swerving erratically near Gingerbread Lane on the afternoon of Aug. 1 and tracked it to the Stop and Shop parking lot. The driver of the 2013 Kia, a woman from Highlands Beach, Fla., told the officer that “her dog had jumped onto her lap, causing her to swerve off the road” as she was turning from Route 114 onto Gingerbread.

Two assistant chefs who work at an estate on West Pond Drive in Bridgehampton, off Kellis Pond, found themselves in the soup early Friday morning.