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6 days ago | 
newsday.com | Mark Harrington |Sandra Peddie
The former chief of staff of the SteveBellone administration who chaired Suffolk County’s opioid settlement-fund committee has agreed to pay a $2,000 fine following a Suffolk County Board of Ethics investigation that found she violated two ethics laws in applying for a top job at a not-for-profit group that received funding. In an April 28 settlement agreement obtained by Newsday, Ryan Attard, who served under former County Executive Steve Bellone from May 2020 until Dec.
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1 week ago | 
newsday.com | Mark Harrington |Sandra Peddie
Suffolk County’s system for selecting, awarding and disbursing money from the state’s opioid settlement fund has been beset by delays, a faulty selection process, poor documentation and lack of public participation, according to an audit released by the Suffolk comptroller Tuesday. Lack of meeting records and approval of big-dollar awards without public participation "question the integrity and validity of the whole process," Comptroller John Kennedy said in an interview Tuesday.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsday.com | Sandra Peddie |Joshua Solomon
Raymond Line was on his way back from a doctor’s appointment when he was pulled over for rolling through a stop sign in the village of Head of the Harbor in 2012. During the stop, the police officer also discovered that his registration had lapsed. Line, a cook, was worried about taking off work to go to village court because his finances were tight, so he never dealt with it. Fines accumulated, and eventually, his license was suspended.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsday.com | Sandra Peddie |Anastasia Valeeva
Nicolette Franzone was just a week shy of her 13th birthday when she and her sister, Angelica, went to their first sleepover. After a fun night, the girls piled into a car around noon to see a movie. An older girlfriend drove, and at the last minute, Nicolette changed seats with her sister. As they entered the intersection with the green light at County Road 101 and Woodside Avenue in Medford, Nicolette saw a black car hurtling toward them.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsday.com | Grant Parpan |Sandra Peddie
Suffolk prosecutors are looking to seize a $1.2 million Fire Island home owned by the alleged leader of a long-running prostitution ring that operated brothels in Holbrook and West Babylon with the help of a Suffolk County police officer and Islip High School gym teacher, court records show.
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2 months ago | 
newsday.com | Joshua Solomon |Sandra Peddie |Anastasia Valeeva
Suffolk County Executive Edward P. Romaine has ordered a county "Child Fatality Review Team" to convene for the first time, a move publicly announced after a Newsday investigation into the death of a Middle Island boy whose mother was investigated numerous times by Child Protective Services. The team was established by the county legislature nearly a decade ago, but was never put into action, Romaine's office said in a statement.
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2 months ago | 
newsday.com | Sandra Peddie |Anastasia Valeeva
Kerri Bedrick wandered into the Middle Island Fire Department in January 2023 showing signs of hallucinations, paranoia and rage. Emergency personnel took the 30-year-old single mother to the hospital and sent her then-7-year-old son to live with his grandmotherwhile she underwent treatment. The incident was reported to Suffolk County Child Protective Services whose workersdidn’t follow up with the fire department or people concerned she wasn’t ready to be released from the hospital.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
newsday.com | Sandra Peddie |Brianne Ledda
The resignation last month of Long Island MacArthur Airport's security director marked the third time in less than three years the position turned over and follows at least three security breaches at the facility, including equipment thefts and a passenger entering a restricted area. Brian Murphy, who began in the Town of Islip job on Apr. 8, 2024, resigned Jan. 3, town records show.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
newsday.com | Sandra Peddie
Tynesha Brewster dropped out of Central Islip High School in the 10th grade. She started dancing at a strip club in Hempstead. But she had made a pact with her sister Lachelle Brewster to go back to school and get her diploma. Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, Tynesha didn’t come home. Although Tynesha sometimes stayed out all night, her sister Shamika Vinson worried when she didn't come home the next day.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
newsday.com | Sandra Peddie |Mark Harrington
A former Suffolk County attorney who signed off on an amendment to the county's contract with BusPatrol America in the waning days of the Bellone administration has taken a job at that company, Newsday has learned. Christiana Stover McSloy, who was chief deputy county attorney, was appointed in-house counsel for BusPatrol. McSloy on Nov. 21 signed an amendment to the BusPatrol contract that limits the county's ability to end the contract, according to a copy of the contract obtained by Newsday.
