Moriches

1 dead in Mastic glider crash; only pilot was aboard

2013-04-28 11:14:02

An East Moriches man was killed Saturday morning when the glider he was piloting crashed in a wooded area in Mastic as he attempted to return to the runway at Brookhaven Calabro Airport, federal officials said. The orange-and-white Schweizer SGS...

NTSB: Mastic glider report posted within 10 days

2013-04-28 11:14:02

A preliminary accident report on the Saturday crash of a glider in Mastic will be posted on the National Transportation Safety Board website within 10 days, a spokesman for the agency said Sunday. Describing the investigation process generally,...

School Notebook: State Science Olympiad winner

2013-04-23 00:14:02

The Three Village Central School District swept the state level of the 2013 New York State Science Olympiad and will go on to compete nationally next month. Earlier this month, teams from Ward Melville High School and Paul J. Gelinas Junior High School,...

Bodies Recovered From Small Plane That Crashed In Waters Off Long Island

2012-10-20 20:34:00

The bodies of the two men killed in Saturday's small plane crash in Moriches Inlet, off the South Shore of Long Island, N.Y. have been recovered. Earlier in the day, the U.S. Coast Guard said a man and woman had been killed. The victims have now been...

Rescuers Cut Through Second-Floor Wall To Extract Obese Man

2012-01-19 19:31:00

Suffolk county cops and first responders thought they were answering a call to help a man who had fallen in an upstairs apartment bathroom in Center Moriches but they found much more, including a house with debris stacked almost to the ceiling. They ended...

Doctors Amputate Woman's Toe To Replace Thumb Lost In Firecracker Accident

2010-06-21 11:17:00

A Long Island woman who lost a thumb and two forefingers last year after someone threw a lit M-80 firecracker at her from a passing car, has plenty to be thankful for after doctors successfully amputated her toe to replace her missing thumb. According to...

A flotilla of U.S. Coast Guard and other rescue vessels return to the Coast Guard station in East Moriches, N.Y., at dawn on July 18, 1996.

1997-07-14 14:58:00