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Suffolk County, NY

Former captain Joseph Hazelwood of the tanker Exxon Valdez, owned by US petroleum giant Exxon Corporation, is escorted by police official to his arraignment inside Suffolk County courthouse 05 April 1989 on charges stemming from 24 March 1989 Alaskan oil disaster. 24 March 1989, in the early morning hours, a disastrous accident happened in the water of Prince William Sound off Alaska, when the tanker Exxon Valdez hit a submerged reef and lost 11 million gallons of crude oil into the waters of the Sound, near Oil Pipeline tanker terminal in Valdez Harbor.

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  • Bellone merger plan could negate Sawicki term limit

    Suffolk County Comptroller Joseph Sawicki would be eligible to remain in office up to 12 more years if County Executive Steve Bellone's proposal to merge the offices of comptroller and treasurer wins legislative and voter approval.The proposed bill that 6/19/13 Read more »

  • Long Island to get 2 video slot parlors

    ALBANY -- Long Island will get two new video-slot machine parlors -- even if a statewide referendum to allow casinos across New York fails this fall -- under a gambling-expansion agreement announced by lawmakers Wednesday.The deal, reached at midnight Tu 6/19/13 Read more »

  • Letter: Alternatives to jail time lacking

    Your editorial "Turning point for Suffolk jail" [June 10] is unfortunately a bit misleading. Your recommendations on alternatives to incarceration are on point, but our governmental bureaucracy is in chaos. Every entity of government service is on the ve 6/19/13 Read more »

  • Hasan Vaughan, Thomas Singletary to spend rest of life in prison

    The two men convicted of torturing and slaughtering three people in a Central Islip home before setting it on fire with two children inside were sentenced Wednesday to the maximum, ensuring that neither sets foot outside prison again.Suffolk County Court 6/19/13 Read more »

  • Suffolk offers new way to register emergency details

    Suffolk County has launched a system that allows residents to preregister information that can be accessed immediately by firefighters and paramedics responding to emergency calls.County leaders Tuesday announced implementation of the Smart911 system, in 6/19/13 Read more »

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About Suffolk County, NY

Suffolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York on the eastern portion of Long Island. As of the 2000 census, the population was 1,419,369. It was named for the county of Suffolk in England, from which its earliest settlers came. The county seat is Riverhead, though many county offices are in Hauppauge on the west side of the county where most of the population lives. There are also offices in Smithtown, for the legislature, Yaphank, and Farmingville.

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