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.

A Hampton Bays woman who works for an agency caring for the elderly in their own homes was arrested yesterday morning by the East Hampton Village police on felony charges of grand larceny and possession of stolen property. According to the police, Chrisafia Dressler, 51, was caring for a Fithian Lane woman for the past couple of years. Starting in December 2015, she began stealing jewelry and silverware from the house of the woman she was caring for. Ms.

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.