As part of National Teen Driver Safety Week, Walt Whitman High School hosted its 3rd annual “It Can Wait” event to demonstrate the dangers of distracted driving with the aid of oral and video presentations and a virtual reality 3-D simulator.  

The Huntington Manor Fire Department responded Sunday around 5:20 p.m. to reports of smoke filling the P.F. Chang’s restaurant at the Walt Whitman Shops, fire officials said.

A 28-foot female humpback whale carcass found off Lloyd Harbor this weekend shows signs of blunt force trauma, a representative from the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation said Monday.