Multiple swastikas were found spray-painted on signs Wednesday morning at Shadmoor State Park in Montauk by a New York State Parks employee doing routine maintenance.

A former Montauk businessman was sentenced Monday to serve three to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of second-degree and two counts of third-degree grand larceny for a scheme that defrauded businesses of $400,000 over three years.

Incumbent Representative Nick LaLota, a Republican, appears to have easily defeated his Democratic challenger, John Avlon, to be re-elected to a second term. For State Senate here, Republican Anthony Palumbo prevailed over his challenger, Sarah Anker. And Tommy John Schiavoni, a Democrat, was the winner in the race to replace retiring State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr.

First came news that Bridgehampton's Kmart, the former retail giant's last full-sized location in the continental United States, was closing. On Monday, the now-empty big-box store's future came into clearer focus: Yes, Target is coming to Bridgehampton.

The suspect in the murder of a Brooklyn woman at a Water Mill wellness resort earlier this week was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Pennsylvania, Suffolk County police said yesterday. 

The Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad is investigating the murder of a Brooklyn woman at Shou Sugi Ban House in Water Mill, after a staff member found her body in a guestroom there on Monday around 12:30 p.m.

After several years of lobbying the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for money to improve Long Island Rail Road infrastructure and expand commuter train service on the South Fork, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced Wednesday that $260 million has been added to the M.T.A.'s capital plan to do just that.

An East Hampton Town justice sent a homeless man to Suffolk County jail without bail Thursday following the man's arrest on eight combined charges of robbery, attempted robbery, and kidnapping. Police allege that on Tuesday evening he approached three people — all male East Hampton residents, one of them a juvenile — in a parking lot on Springs-Fireplace Road, where he held a knife to the throat of one victim, demanded money, and "ordered" them to drive to an A.T.M.

The owners of a house where two sisters died in a fire while their family was vacationing there have admitted they rented the house illegally, built an outdoor kitchen with neither a construction permit nor an electrical inspection, and failed to make sure smoke and carbon monoxide alarms were working throughout the house.

East Hampton Town police blocked off roads in Montauk and had the Long Island Rail Road halt Montauk-bound trains on Friday afternoon as they responded to a possible “psychiatric emergency” at a house on Edgemere Street, not far from the train station.