By Mike White 🇺🇸 Aug. 11, 2026

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☀️ Good morning, Long Island!

🍂 I don't know about you guys, but I'm sick of this heat. It looks like things might cool down this weekend.

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Weather: Today will be mostly sunny with a high near 90 in Woodbury.

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Greater Moriches coverage is funded in part by Peconic Bay Medical Center, a place that is here for life’s most defining moments.

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1. Suffolk County drivers could get money back from red-light tickets

🚦 The county’s red-light camera tickets carried a $50 fine, but drivers were also required to pay the additional $30 fee. A court ultimately ruled that the county did not have the authority to impose the fee.

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2. Sayville firefighters free trapped occupant after box truck slams into pole

👨🏻‍🚒 A commercial box truck crash on Sunrise Highway left one occupant trapped and heavily pinned inside the cab Sunday morning, triggering a lengthy rescue operation by Sayville's volunteer firefighters.

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3. Irish family sues Montauk yacht owner for $50M over fashion designer Martha Nolan’s death

⚖️ The family of Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Garden City businessman who owned the yacht where the 33-year-old fashion designer was found dead just after midnight last August.

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More headlines to highlight

🫶🏻 Community offers massive support for family of Suffolk sports legend Scott Coppola after sudden death

🥅 Islanders’ Kyle Palmieri hosts hockey clinic for military families on Long Island

🚨 A man who had been living in East Hampton was busted trying to enter Honduras after fleeing deadly NYC hit-and-run: prosecutors

🎤Argyle Theatre will kick off its fall season in Babylon on Sept. 17 with “On Your Feet”

☕ MOTW Coffee brings global mission, personal story to Farmingdale​

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GREAT DAYS

Celebrate America’s 250th at the Nesconset Day Street Fair Aug. 30

The Nesconset Day Street Fair returns on Sunday, Aug. 30, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., filling the street and surrounding park with more than 200 craft vendors, live entertainment, family activities and so much food!

Greater Babylon coverage is funded in part by The Argyle Theatre, where Broadway comes to Babylon Village. Click here for tickets to Beautiful running now through Aug. 30.