I was surprised to see in my logbook that my lobster catch was better than expected this year, although lobsters in our local waters have been on a downswing for decades.

Several fire departments worked for four hours to tame a fire at a large house on La Forest Lane in East Hampton Saturday evening. 

The owners of a house where two sisters died in a fire while their family was vacationing there have admitted they rented the house illegally, built an outdoor kitchen with neither a construction permit nor an electrical inspection, and failed to make sure smoke and carbon monoxide alarms were working throughout the house.