News Nearby: Police Search for BMW Driver in Canal Road Hit-and-Run

Exactly two years after a Brooklyn man stole 30 pairs of jeans from Tanger Outlet Mall and proceeded to get in a high-speed chase with police – resulting in a fatal crash that took the life of a Hauppauge School District teacher – a judge sentenced him to prison on Thursday.

From Smithtown: Whisper Landing Senior Complex Raises Shouts Over Location, Traffic

Smithtown residents are sharply divided over a proposal to build a senior housing complex on Route 25A.

Police are asking for the public’s help to identify the hit-and-run driver who left a jogger clinging to life.

Suffolk County police said Tuesday that they need residents to keep their eyes open for a light-colored 2000 to 2003 BMW sedan or station wagon that was involved in the Mt. Sinai accident on Sunday. The car would have damage to the front and passenger side, police said.

From Miller Place-Rocky Point: Family 'Waiting Patiently, Hoping' for Return of Woman

A Miller Place woman has been missing since Wednesday afternoon, and family say she could be in the area – though since Patricia Woods has not lived on Long Island for over 30 years, the family is grasping for straws wondering where she is.

The 53-year-old was last seen Wednesday afternoon by her mother, Lil Kos, when Woods told her she was going to Rite Aid to pick up a prescription. She never made it there, and Kos called police right away.