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• $18.6M in venture funding for 3 LI firms

  a welcome payoff for the region's continued concentration on promoting their potential," he said.Kemp Technologies Inc., a Yaphank networking equipment manufacturer, was the quarter's big winner, receiving $16 million. Certpoint Systems Inc., a Roslyn Heights   Read more »

• Officials: Speeder sparks crash in Yaphank

  motorist was traveling about 120 miles per hour on the Long Island Expressway in Yaphank Tuesday night when her car struck another vehicle and both crashed, said Suffolk County Sheriffs officials, but "incredibly" no one was seriously injured.Casandra Demopoulos,   Read more »

• State OKs waivers for extra Suffolk inmates

  site in Yaphank .The commission made the restoration of variances contingent on Suffolk holding a successful evacuation drill in Yaphank Thursday -- overseen by a state official -- to show that inmates can be safely moved in an emergency.County officials expressed   Read more »

• Suffolk top cops to tackle drug probe, Gilgo

  it, because there's no end in sight," Burke said of the issue.Joined by acting Commissioner Edward Webber at the department's Yaphank headquarters, Burke described other imminent changes to a force whose previous commanders County Executive Steve Bellone dubbed   Read more »

• Serious injuries for driver in Yaphank crash

  Patchogue woman was airlifted to Stony Brook University Medical Center with serious injuries after a two-car crash in Yaphank Friday morning, Suffolk County police said.The woman, 23, was driving a 2008 Hyundai sedan south on Victory Road at about 8:15 a.m.,   Read more »

Around the web

• Suffolk Police to Announce Pharmacy Safety Initiative

  N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – Suffolk County police will unveil a plan Monday to keep pharmacy workers safe in the wake of several deadly robberies. The Pharmacy Safety Initiative is a three-pronged attack to stop the violence. It includes training for police and pharmacy   from CBS New York Read more »

• NY officials to implement pharmacy safety program

  YAPHANK, N.Y. (AP) - Officials on Long Island are implementing a program to safeguard pharmacies in the wake of several deadly robberies. The Suffolk County initiative consists of training police and pharmacy personnel, increasing Crime Stoppers reward f   from WCAX Read more »

• Recognize her? Sketch released in NY serial killing probe

  N.Y.  — Police have released a composite sketch of an unidentified victim whose skull was among the remains of 11 people found along a remote New York beach highway last year. The artist's rendering released Saturday is of a woman whose partial remains were   from MSNBC Read more »

• NY suburban police aim changes at biggest cases

  N.Y. (AP) — Long Island's Suffolk County police department is announcing changes to tackle its highest-profile cases. Suffolk Police Chief of Department James Burke tells Newsday (http://bit.ly/up5Z7w) he will assign a special detective to a grand jury probe   from San Antonio Express Read more »

• LI Serial Killer: Missing escort, crime scene & victims

  this undated photo released by the Suffolk County Police Department in Yaphank, N.Y., a detail of a poster bearing two photos of Shannan Gilbert is shown. On Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, investigators have confirmed that bones found on Dec. 13, in a coastal wetland   from CBS News Read more »