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East Hampton firefighters were called to a house on Accabonac Road when it filled with smoke on Saturday morning just after 7:30.

The 29-year-old man who police say murdered his wife before taking his own life at their house in Mastic Beach Thursday was a Bridgehampton native, Wayne Street. His wife, Jenni Lee Street, 28, worked at Southampton Hospital.

A wake will be held and a Mass will be said for the 19-year-old college student on Sunday in East Hampton.

While firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the fire, the damage was already done in what was the first significant fire in the village business district in 30 years.

East Hampton Town police officers saved the lives of three people last week when they responded to very different medical emergencies.

The lead investigator from the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said Mario Mayorga was intoxicated and walking down a dark highway when he was struck and killed early on April 24.

A dozen activists rallied in support of marriage equality outside Incarnation Lutheran Church in Water Mill on Tuesday afternoon, the day the Supreme Court began hearing arguments as it prepares to rule on gay marriage.

Acting U.S. attorney said Farrukh Baig “exploited his alien employees, stealing their wages and requiring them to live in unregulated boarding houses.”

Two men charged in East Hampton burglary had several houses on their list, police say.

The defense in the rape trial of Jason Lee rested its case Wednesday afternoon after calling only three witnesses, and closing arguments are scheduled for Tuesday.

Meetings of the East Hampton Town Trustees are not broadcast on LTV, in contrast to those of the town board, many of the town’s other governing bodies, and the East Hampton Village board and zoning board of appeals.

This is how scarce elementary school teaching jobs are on Long Island: The Wainscott School District, which plans to hire one teacher, has received more than 1,200 résumés from candidates near and far.

The Suffolk County district attorney’s office has subpoenaed documents related to East Hampton Town’s $10.1 million community preservation fund purchase last year of 19 acres called Amagansett Farm

Aviation coalition seeks injunction to block curfews and trip limits.

On Monday, the Springs School Board voted to add a proposition to the May 19 ballot that will ask residents to approve the use of $2 million from a reserve fund for parking and other projects.

Iona Costello, 51, and Emily Costello, 14, were found safe in New York City on Monday morning, about three weeks after family members had last heard from them.

A motorcyclist and his passenger were seriously injured Sunday afternoon when the motorcycle hit a Chevy Tahoe on Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton.

With time running out before the busy summer season, an $8.4 million sandbag project planned for the Montauk oceanfront has been postponed. East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell said on Thursday that the United States Army Corps told him that work could begin in October.

A dump truck fire on Sunrise Highway in the Westhampton area has closed the highway to all eastbound traffic.

Supporters of the Breakwater Yacht Club packed the meeting room at Sag Harbor Village Hall and spilled out onto the stairs Tuesday night to press the board on why the community sailing center’s lease was not being renewed.

The Suffolk County Water Authority hit an abandoned gas line, causing a gas leak while working on Toilsome Lane in East Hampton Village on Thursday morning.

The lure of waterfront living, the stratospheric value of most South Fork real estate, and fear that a catastrophic weather event could destroy it all were starkly illustrated at Tuesday’s meeting of the East Hampton Town Trustees.

The test refusal movement has picked up momentum on the South Fork, with the number of students refusing to take the English language arts state tests in local schools this week up dramatically from last year.

A vote is expected on three measures restricting access to the East Hampton Airport, the first local regulations designed to reduce regional disturbance from flights and to target “noisy” aircraft, particularly helicopters.

St. Thomas Chapel in Amagansett may become a base from which to build a year-round congregation serving the South Fork’s Latino community.

In a packed courtroom on Tuesday, the woman, known only as D.D., gave a graphic and tearful description of the alleged attack in the early morning of Aug. 20, 2013, at an East Hampton house Jason Lee was renting for the month.

As the trial of Jason Lee continued in Riverside on Wednesday, the prosecution turned its attention to his cellphone records on the morning of the alleged rape.

On March 30, the lieutenant became commander of the force’s Montauk precinct, taking over from Lt. Chris Hatch.

In the second day of Jason Lee's rape trial, a taxi dispatcher says a caller whose number matches that of Mr. Lee requested a taxi from house where the alleged incident took place not long after police arrived.

Because of the uncertainties related to the affordable housing proposal, the Wainscott School Board did not sign the tuition contract with the East Hampton School District that Springs, Amagansett, and Montauk recently signed.