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Charges Upgraded Against Man Who Posed as Fake Cop Tops Our News This Week

Also, Comsewogue and Mount Sinai budgets pass on second go around.

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Prosecutors unveiled additional, upgraded charges and accusations against David Bradley, the Port Jefferson Station man and putting a 19-year-old man in handcuffs.

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At his arraignment in Riverhead criminal court on Wednesday, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said that Bradley had caught three other alleged victims in his spree of impersonations and fake arrests.

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After failing to garner enough votes for a supermajority last time around, the Comsewogue School District's has passed, avoiding an austerity budget for the upcoming school year that would have brought additional cuts to the district.

The budget passed by a vote of 2,179 to 603 on Tuesday night, school board member Lance Brown reported to Patch. The 78 percent "yes" vote was enough to carry a supermajority, something the previous budget did not do.

The Mt. Sinai school district's revised 2012-13 budget has passed, keeping the district off an austerity budget for the upcoming school year that would have brought severe cuts to the schools.

The budget passed by a vote of 1,492-735 (67 percent) Tuesday. The original budget, which pierced the tax cap, was

A move by U.S. Rep. Tim Bishop, D-Southampton, to offer to help young illegal immigrants qualify for President Obama's and avoid being deported was slammed this week by Randy Altschuler, R-Smithtown, Bishop's opponent in the next election. Locals, however, are mixed on whether they believe the congressman's offer of aid is a bad idea.

When she takes to the podium on Saturday evening to give the farewell address to her classmates at the 2012 graduation ceremony, it will be the third year in a row that someone from Rachel Lawrence’s family has graduated as class valedictorian.

On Tuesday presented Dustin Lance Black’s Prop. 8 play “8." The play makes a case for marriage equality and featured local performers under the direction of Theatre Three's Executive Artistic Director Jeffrey Sanzel.

Fourth graders from got to travel back in time and glimpse the history of their community.

No, the science teachers at Comsewogue School District didn't finally invent a time machine but rather the brought the past to the present in the form of the Third Annual Heritage Day on Tuesday, June 12, an event that exposes students to artifacts from a way of life that is long gone.


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