Mastic

A female prisoner at the Suffolk County jail was beaten, sodomized, raped and impregnated by a correction officer in May, according to a notice of claim filed last week that asks for $50 million in damages from the county. The Mastic Beach woman, whom...

A Long Island man is under arrest for making 31 false 911 calls over the past three weeks, and Suffolk County police believe he is responsible for up to 300 more phone calls. The stream of calls to 911 began on August 31, when the system became...

In a decision that could put a significant crimp in untaxed cigarette sales from the Poospatuck tribal reservation in Mastic, a federal judge has granted New York City's request for an injunction against sales to nonmembers of the Indian tribe. U.S....

MASTIC BEACH, N.Y (WPIX) --  Rescue agencies are trying to figure out what caused a single-engine vintage World War II-era plane to crash off the waters of Mastic Beach, killing the pilot aboard the aircraft. Robert Baranaskas, 61, of Northport, took off...

Racist graffiti, some targeting President-elect Barack Obama, was scrawled on more than a dozen cars in a normally quiet Mastic neighborhood on Wednesday morning, police and residents said. A Suffolk County police spokesman said "multiple vehicles"...

After last week, the Shinnecock tribe may have trouble knowing whether the Suffolk legislature is with them or against them, Rick Brand reports: The same day legislative officials named the head of a task force to help the tribe......