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News Nearby: Grand Jury Decision, Man Hit by Train in West Islip
A look at some of the top headlines from fellow Suffolk County Patch sites during the past week.
• Babylon Village
The Village of Babylon and AbTech Holdings, Inc. announced the results of a five-year study exploring the efficacy of AbTech's filtration technology in preventing stormwater contamination of the Great South Bay.
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• Deer Park-North Babylon
Suffolk County Police identified a North Babylon woman as one of 14 people injured in a house explosion in Brentwood on Tuesday.
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• Half Hollow Hills
Community activists and the Melville Fire District are asking the Huntington Town Planning Board to halt plans for new construction along the service road of Long Island Expressway in Melville until updated traffic studies and issues of congestion are addressed.
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• Lindenhurst
Suffolk Police are searching for a vehicle that allegedly hit two cars at the light at Strong Avenue and Montauk Highway late on Sunday night and fled the scene.
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• Patchogue
The Patchogue Village Board of Trustees has unanimously awarded the recently-moved Carnegie Library to the Patchogue-Medford Library for their use at Monday's Village Board of Trustees meeting at Patchogue Village Hall.
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• Sachem
A Farmingville resident didn't take too kindly to his home being burglarized Monday afternoon. The homeowner stabbed a burglar who was attempting to flee through the backyard of the home on Cedar Oaks Avenue, police said.
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• Sayville-Bayport
A Suffolk County grand jury has declined to issue an indictment of one count of criminally negligent homicide against a Suffolk County deputy sheriff involved in a that killed a Blue Point teenager in March on the Long Island Expressway.
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• West Islip
An East Islip man struck by a westbound Long Island Rail Road train in West Islip late Wednesday night has died.
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