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East Hampton Town detectives executed a search warrant during the pre-dawn hours Saturday and arrested Brian A. Cowell.

Every year as the summer season advances, alcohol-related carnage on local roads keeps pace. This past week was no exception

Woman caught on camera stole a $300 necklace from a Newtown Lane boutique, police say.

Other than the 35 lifeguard trainees who had shown up for what John Ryan Sr. calls “the Joe Dooley test,” which, if they passed, would certify them as ocean lifeguards, there weren’t many at the Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett Sunday morning.

A revival of “All My Sons,” starring Alec Baldwin and Laurie Metcalf, is now running through June 28 at East Hampton’s Guild Hall. The Star's reviewer said, "Fans of serious drama should not hesitate to try and secure a ticket before the show’s run is finished."

A man was seriously injured when the Jeep he was driving rolled onto its roof in Amagansett on Saturday afternoon.

A sport utility vehicle reportedly hit a tree and a pole before coming to rest on its roof on Saturday at about 6:10 a.m.

Just months since a moratorium on building expired, Sag Harbor Village officials, worried that development is threatening the character of the village, seem to be determined to institute another temporary freeze.

Indications of climate change are all around us and civilization must adopt an aggressive timetable to “net-zero” energy in order to avert devastating environmental changes.

Firefighters were called to a chemical spill at the intersection of Cedar Street and Stephen Hand's Path in East Hampton Tuesday afternoon.

A good number of businesses must opt in for a centralized system to be viable in Montauk's downtown.

“At this junction we have no reason to believe it’s criminal,” Southampton Town Police Detective Sgt. Lisa Costa said. “This could be totally accidental.”

As the summer heats up, so does the taxi business in East Hampton Town, catering to visitors without cars as well as partying vacationers and locals who, after an alcohol-fueled evening, wisely leave their cars behind and take a cab home.

An early-morning altercation Saturday between a Bridgehampton man and an 83-year-old Northwest Woods woman ended with her hospitalization for a fractured skull.

Sgt. Chelsea Tierney one of the department's seven female officers, is the first female sergeant in the East Hampton Town Police Department.

Ed Petrie, the man who gave this town, and Sag Harbor before that, so much to cheer about over his half-century career as a high school boys basketball coach, died on Sunday at Southampton Hospital at the age of 82.

There were 11 alcohol-related arrests in East Hampton Town over the past week, mostly over the holiday weekend.

At least two people were injured in the accident by the west overlook on Montauk Highway on Monday afternoon.

Firefighters quickly stopped a blaze on the wooden roof of an old Amagansett Main Street house on Saturday night. There were no reports of injuries.

A fire at World Pie shut down Montauk Highway for about two hours while firefighters worked to extinguish the flames Saturday morning.

A 75-year-old customer remains in critical condition after he was crushed by falling sheets of wallboard at Riverhead Building Supply in East Hampton on Friday.

The 150-foot communications antenna erected behind the Springs Firehouse drew a crowd to the firehouse for a meeting of the Springs Fire District Board of Commissioners.

A small amount of pool chemical spilled out onto the road after a pool company's pickup truck and a car collided on Main Street in East Hampton Village on Wednesday just before 8:30 a.m.

A woman with Alzheimer's disease was reported missing in Northwest Woods on Monday.

With the annual influx of summer renters about to begin, East Hampton Town’s Ordinance Enforcement Division is cracking down on homeowners who would disregard the zoning-based laws that prohibit shared houses.

The Breakers Motel on Old Montauk Highway in Montauk is going back to the future.

When Catherine Mottola-King erected a Little Free Library on her front lawn she didn’t expect the overwhelming response she got after announcing it on Facebook.

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. has introduced legislation that would authorize the five East End towns to create a work-force housing fund to help residents achieve homeownership through zero-interest loans of up to $250,000.

The victims of a Ponzi scheme involving Montauk’s Panoramic View resort have waited three years now for the property to be sold, and they are waiting still, losing thousands of dollars every day from the fund established to pay them back.

An early morning fire tore through a barn north of Water Mill on Sunday. There were no reports of injuries.