Montauk

The first time that I went to Montauk in October and saw a football field of striped bass, jumping out like frenzying piranhas, to eat bait fish, I was hooked. To the fisherman, that is called a 'blitz.' For over 3 decades, the 'blitzes' of striped bass have kept me coming back.

Police say the children were taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital where they were pronounced dead.

Even after winter storms left East Coast harbors thick with ice, some of the country's top chefs and trendy restaurants were offering sushi-grade tuna supposedly pulled in fresh off the coast of New York.

Authorities say a member of the U.S. Coast Guard attacked a 67-year-old Long Island woman while she slept in her home before passing out in the victim's bed.