🌱 Four People Hurt In LIE Crash + Husband Admits To Killing Wife

Happy Sunday, Miller Place-Rocky Point! Let's get you all caught up to start today off on an informed note.

First, today's weather:

Sun mixing with clouds; humid. High: 80 Low: 62.

Here are the top three stories today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

1. Four people were hurt when a teen driver crashed into a disabled Jeep on a shoulder of the Long Island Expressway Friday afternoon. Michael Ruotolo, 47, was sitting in his disabled 2021 Jeep Explorer on the shoulder of the westbound LIE near Exit 68 in Yaphank when a 2019 Toyota Camry lost control and crashed into the Jeep. The driver, Madison Cheeseman, 17, of East Patchogue, was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital with injuries, along with passenger William Brewster, 17, of Bellport. (Patch)
2. The husband of Melissa Molinari, a mother of four, admitted to stabbing her and wrapping her body in garbage bags in December 2021. Centereach resident Marcello Molinari, age 38, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. (Daily Voice)
3. Queens officials announced on Thursday that part of the Long Island Expressway (LIE) overpass located at Francis Lewis Boulevard and Horace Harding Expressway will be renamed“Detective Anastasios Tsakos Memorial Bridge.” Tsakos, a NYPD detective from East Northport, was killed in the line of duty last year. (Long Island Press)

Today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

• Port Jefferson's Summer 2022 Farmers Market at Mayor Jeanne Garant Harborfront Park, 101 East Broadway Port Jefferson, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
  

From my notebook:

• A William Floyd school district graduate who died from COVID two years ago was honored at his old elementary school. PJ Fusaro also received an honorary K-9 officer title. (Subscription: Newsday)
• The owners of Redefine Fitness have opened a second location of its small-group fitness program gym at 1113 North Country Road in Stony Brook. The first location is in Mt. Sinai. (LongIsland.com)
• The Town of Brookhaven launched a new Habitat for Humanity donation program. The town will collect new or slightly used furniture, appliances, kitchen cabinets and building materials from Brookhaven residents. (TBR News Media)

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— Jackie

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