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Former captain Joseph Hazelwood of the tanker Exxon Valdez, owned by US petroleum giant Exxon Corporation, is escorted by police official to his arraignment inside Suffolk County courthouse 05 April 1989 on charges stemming from 24 March 1989 Alaskan oil disaster. 24 March 1989, in the early morning hours, a disastrous accident happened in the water of Prince William Sound off Alaska, when the tanker Exxon Valdez hit a submerged reef and lost 11 million gallons of crude oil into the waters of the Sound, near Oil Pipeline tanker terminal in Valdez Harbor.

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  • Vecchio might not make it onto Nov. ballot

    ballot, albeit on a minor party line.That means that even if Vecchio, 83, wins a GOP primary, Creighton, 75, a former Suffolk County police commissioner, will remain on the November ballot, resulting in a three-way race. Such a free-for-all could make little-known 5/18/13 Read more »

  • Girls who run this world: Suffolk girls lacrosse players of the week

    nine goals, five assists. You wanna know what else that means? Murphy finished the season with 82 goals. Thats tops in Suffolk . And, if you dont count Lu-Hi super-stud Nicole Sinacori (who plays against a number of non-LI teams), its tops on Long Island. 5/18/13 Read more »

  • Police: Off-duty Suffolk cop revives man

    revived an elderly man, who had suffered a heart attack and had no pulse and wasn't breathing in Mount Sinai on Friday.Suffolk County police said Lance Prager, an off-duty Emergency Service Section officer had just left a training session when he saw the man 5/18/13 Read more »

  • Suffolk County anniversaries, May 26

    Jeffrey is vice president of human resources at Suffolk County Community College in Selden . Ayleen works for the Suffolk County Water Authority in Oakdale .25thPAT AND BILL FLEMING of Babylon were wed April 30, 1988. They celebrated with a family trip to   Read more »

  • LI legislators introduce video slots bill

    is about helping Suffolk and Nassau OTBs because they have been struggling," Boyle said, although the bill could apply to any off-track betting facility in New York .Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who has pushed to allow off-track betting to host   Read more »

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About Suffolk County, NY

Suffolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York on the eastern portion of Long Island. As of the 2000 census, the population was 1,419,369. It was named for the county of Suffolk in England, from which its earliest settlers came. The county seat is Riverhead, though many county offices are in Hauppauge on the west side of the county where most of the population lives. There are also offices in Smithtown, for the legislature, Yaphank, and Farmingville.

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