Police & Courts

New York State's new laws when it comes to evidence being turned over to the defense were brought into focus during a court conference Monday for Joseph Grippo, the man accused of killing Robert Casado with a pickaxe in Montauk last June. 

Police are looking for the public's help in identifying a man captured on surveillance video at one of two houses that were broken into in East Hampton on Thursday night. 

A 125-pound steel anvil was stolen from a backyard on Hand’s Creek Road sometime between Nov. 29 and Jan. 15. Wayne B. Hermann said the anvil had been on his property for over 30 years.

Some parents might have walked away after their child committed murder, too horrified to cope. Shelley Gilbert did the opposite. After her son, Thomas Gilbert Jr., shot and killed his 70-year-old father on Jan. 4, 2015, she paid for his defense attorneys, expert witnesses, and psychiatric examinations. “What he did was not him, it was his disease," she said. (Third in a Series)

A North Sea man was stopped in Noyac on Sunday night for a traffic infraction and later charged with misdemeanor drunken driving.

A construction worker who was shingling a new modular home in Montauk fell from scaffolding at least two stories high on Friday afternoon and died of his injuries.

First responders were recognized Tuesday evening for saving the life of a man who had fallen from his bicycle in Montauk in September and was in cardiac arrest.

A man was seriously injured when his pickup truck slammed into a tree and burst into flames on Friday just before midnight. 

A fire erupted at a PSEG Long Island substation in Bridgehampton on Friday morning, but a spokeswoman said no customers were affected by the blaze. 

A construction worker fell from scaffolding at least two stories high on Friday afternoon in Montauk and died, East Hampton Town police said.

A new group called the Common-Sense Coalition, made up of officials representing Long Island government and law enforcement, has been formed to recommend changes to New York State’s controversial bail reform law. Suffolk County Sheriff Errol D. Toulon Jr. is among the members.     

In the second installment of a three-part series, Shelley Gilbert, speaks out about her son's increasingly difficult behavior.