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Cops: Woman hits trooper's car trying to flee

A West Islip woman pulled over on the Southern State Parkway Wednesday in North Merrick for erratic driving faces a charge of driving while impaired by drugs after she tried to drive away, State Police said.

Troopers said Christine Cichon, 35, was driving a black Jeep east on the parkway, east of the Meadowbrook Parkway, at about 2:58 a.m.

Responding to a call of a person driving erratically,...

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