Marine units and other law enforcement assets from around the region were on scene Thursday afternoon searching for a 31-year-old Queens man, Dario Cholula, who went missing last night while reportedly fishing the waters off North Haven.

A small plane crashed on the edge of Three Mile Harbor in East Hampton on Thursday at about 12:30 p.m., killing the pilot, Kent I. Feuerring of Sagaponack.

East Hampton Town closed Amagansett ocean beaches to swimming around 2 p.m. Wednesday after a surfcaster caught a six-foot spinner shark, and East Hampton Village followed suit, closing all five of its beaches to swimming. 

Southampton Town police officers, detectives, and bay constables along with the Suffolk County medical examiner are responding to an unidentified beach in the vicinity of Bay Point in Noyac, where a body has washed ashore.

Daniel Campbell of Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., and Montauk pleaded guilty in Suffolk County Criminal Court on Friday to a single felony count of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death. Last August, Mr. Campbell was driving the S.U.V. that struck a Hong Kong teenager, Devesh Samtani.

Two sisters from Potomac, Md., visiting here with their family, died early Wedneday morning in a house fire on Spring Lane, off Noyac Road in Noyac. Lt. Susan Ralph of the Southampton Town police said the other members of the family were able to escape from the rented house. The son leapt from a second-floor window, she said.

Update: A difficult-to-reach brushfire in state parkland between the Walking Dunes and Goff Point at the western edge of Hither Woods burned 20 to 25 acres of grassland Friday night, according to Montauk Fire Chief Scott Snow. At 1:25 p.m. Saturday, East Hampton emergency dispatch confirmed that the fire had reignited.

Benjamin Z. Kitburi was already unconscious when he was pulled from the water shortly after 7:30 p.m. by three nearby surfers, according to East Hampton Town police.

Joseph Grippo of Montauk, facing a trial for murder, took a plea deal on Monday to first-degree manslaughter for the killing of Robert Casado three years ago.