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Ross Pryce, 51, of Sag Harbor died while being airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital after his motorcycle collided head-on with a Mercedes-Benz on Saturday evening.

A drone crashed into a building and then landed on the sidewalk in Sag Harbor, erupting into flames.

Two East Hampton Town trustees, one of whom is seeking re-election in November, have attended fewer than half of the board’s meetings in 2015 and a third, whose attendance has waned, has decided this will be her last term for the time being.

Six relatives of Paul Hansen, the Noyac man killed in an Aug. 30 car crash, were in Southampton Town Justice Court on Thursday when Sean P. Ludwick, who is accused of leaving the crash scene and of drunken driving, made a brief appearance.

Agents took Ana P. Leon into custody at her Sycamore Drive house on Tuesday, claiming she and two accomplices used local banks and addresses to defraud elderly people across the country of nearly $700,000 by convincing them they needed to pay taxes and fees before claiming their winnings.

Two men escaped injury by leaping overboard just before their boat was struck by another vessel off Montauk Point last Thursday night.

Nicholas Louvel, whose film will be featured in the Hamptons International Film Festival next month, was killed when his car hit a tree and rolled over on Route 114 on Thursday just after 1 a.m.

A young couple who bought a house on Queens Lane in East Hampton wound up losing hard-earned money and being evicted in February when the Suffolk County sheriff’s office showed up at the door.

“I was seven months pregnant. There was two feet of snow outside,” Amanda Keyser said Monday. “It was a 72-hour eviction notice.”

Shauna Stonemetz, the granddaughter of Glen Stonemetz Jr., who served as the Village of East Hampton’s chief of police from 1977 to 2000, was honored in a ceremony to mark her hiring as a public safety dispatcher.

An inspector’s sworn statement alleged that the house at 14 Hoover Court was rented by a group of eight people for several days around Aug. 11; the town code allows the rental or use of a property by no more than four unrelated people.

The Coast Guard is investigating an incident that left one boat damaged and two men in the water late Thursday night.

Early on the morning of Sept. 5, outside the Memory Motel in Montauk, East Hampton Town police arrested Anthony Antorino, 22, of Huntington, accusing him of possessing cocaine. Police said the contents of the plastic bag they found in his pocket weighed over 500 milligrams, large enough to trigger a felony-level charge.

 “I don’t know where that came from. My friend must have put it there,” Mr. Antorino allegedly told the arresting officer. He was released later that morning on $750 bail.

Harvesting shellfish was halted on much of Long Island following heavy rain on Thursday. News of when it will be safe to resume clamming will be posted on the state Department of Environmental Conservation website.

Considering that Saturday’s league-opener with Port Jefferson had been “the first football game that’s been played here in two years,” East Hampton High School’s coach, Joe McKee, told his charges he liked what he’d seen.

Fire department chiefs and captains from Southampton to Montauk got early wake-up calls Tuesday morning when residents called 911 about the smell, which turned out was coming from a massive brush fire in New Jersey.

The East Hampton School District is blaming the United States Postal Service for a delay in mailing back-to-school packets, which school officials said had resulted in parents’ flooding school offices with panicked phone calls.

In February, Rose found herself at a police station with her young daughter in tow after a domestic abuse incident, confused, scared, and unsure what next steps to take. A social worker at the police station told Rose she could seek counseling, but Rose envisioned a scary gym filled with drug addicts and cots.

A wake for Paul Hansen, who was killed in a car accident in Noyac on Sunday, will be held on Wednesday, followed by a funeral Mass on Thursday in Sag Harbor.

Sean P. Ludwick, the New York City real estate mogul charged with drunken driving following an early Sunday morning accident in Noyac that killed his passenger, is headed for jail, at least for the time being.

A public hearing Monday night at the Springs Firehouse, slated to discuss an environmental assessment of the new cell tower there, turned instead into a heated dispute over the tower’s aesthetics versus its utility.

A crash involving a pool company pickup truck on the Napeague stretch Wednesday morning briefly closed the road while pool chemicals were removed.

What do you mean I can't take my Louis Vuitton to the Hamptons? The Long Island Rail Road warned passengers on Thursday that they would have to leave large items of luggage at home to keep aisles free for emergency evacuations.

Officials from East Hampton Village and the Amagansett Fire District had a sit-down two weeks ago with the chairman of the Springs Board of Fire Commissioners to express their concerns about how often other agencies have to respond to emergency calls in Springs.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers is offering a $5,000 reward in exchange for information that leads to the capture of two men who burglarized Bay Kitchen Bar in East Hampton Sunday morning.

A Stamford, Conn., man who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor drunken driving earlier this year following a June 2014 crash on Napeague, so angered the judge in the case that he was resentenced on July 30 to nine months in jail.

An experienced ocean lifeguard who has helped plenty of people in trouble in the water needed help herself on Monday while attempting her second recertification at Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett.

Melanie Mackin was one of many taking the tests for ocean rescue certification. Some were first-timers, but experienced swimmers, others were veteran lifeguards taking the test for recertification, which is required every three years.

Five years after her arrival on the South Fork, the Rev. Dr. Katrina Foster, pastor of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett and Incarnation Lutheran Church in Bridgehampton, has heeded a call to take on a new charge.

Ms. Foster, enormously popular among her flocks and credited with revitalizing the churches she leads, has accepted a post at St. John’s Lutheran Church in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. She will begin her new post at the beginning of September.

Estimates are now made more complicated by the rise of online home-sharing sites, such as Airbnb.

A 17-year-old who was seriously injured when his car turned over on North Haven was allegedly driving recklessly and without a license in the early morning hours on Sunday.

This week on the roads saw alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents, felony arrests, and dangerously high blood-alcohol readings.