Suffolk stories from Newsday

1. 2 babies among 4 treated for carbon monoxide
   Two adults and two infants were recovering at Southside Hospital in Bay Shore Wednesday night after they were overcome by carbon monoxide gas at a Brentwood home, police said.
2. Mastic Beach mayor resigns, cites health
   Paul Breschard, the mayor of Mastic Beach and one of the leaders in the drive to incorporate the South Shore community as a village in 2010, resigned Wednesday night, citing health concerns.
3. LI native among journalists killed in Syria
   War correspondent Marie Colvin, killed Wednesday in Syria, had been slated to leave the country on Tuesday but elected to stay another day to finish reporting an important story, her mother said.
4. Suffolk set to borrow $4M for settlement
   Suffolk County is set to borrow $4 million to help settle a malpractice suit involving one of its health center obstetricians.
5. Man: Not guilty in crash that killed wife
   A Bay Shore man pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning to charges of killing his wife while driving drunk.
6. Bellone seeks to curb OT costs to Suffolk
   Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone Wednesday ordered department heads to submit overtime requests to his budget office seven days in advance so that budget officials can determine whether it is essential.
7. Babylon looks at joining flood aid program
   Babylon Town officials are reconsidering taking part in a federal program to help raise flood-damaged homes, after a group of neighbors pleaded for help.
8. Plan for famed 'Legs' statue draws crowd
   An oversized pair of legs brought a standing-room crowd to the small Sag Harbor Zoning Board of Appeals hearing room Tuesday night, with residents filling every seat, standing against the walls, and flowing out into the hallway.
9. Bid to build drugstore in Bay Shore back on track
   For almost 23 years, Tomas Diaz has run the SaluMed pharmacy from a bustling strip on Fifth Avenue in Bay Shore, offering customers service from a mostly bilingual Latino staff -- and a range of products, seemingly transported from the store shelves of Ecuador or El Salvador.
10. Man accused of public lewdness
    A Middle Island man was arrested on charges of endangering the welfare of a child and public lewdness at a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant in Patchogue Wednesday, police said.
11. Charged with DWI, man now accused of arson
    A Huntington Station man already charged with drunken driving was accused Wednesday of setting fire to a house in East Northport earlier this month, Suffolk County police said.
12. Cops: DWI charge for man with kids in car
    A Huntington Station man was charged with drunken driving and other offenses Tuesday after he was stopped for driving a car erratically with two children as passengers, police said.
13. Bellport board members call for ousters
    Three members of the South Country Central School District board of education have called for the ouster of their own president and vice president after a preliminary report said Bellport High School officials inflated a football star's grades to help him gain a scholarship.
14. Murder charges in deaths of LI mom, tot
    No one had any warning that a North Bay Shore man was about to create "an almost unimaginable scene of horror" as he killed his former girlfriend and her toddler son before fleeing to his mother's home in Maryland, a Suffolk prosecutor said Tuesday at the man's arraignment.
15. Burned cables down Verizon phones in Ridge
    About 450 Verizon landline phone customers reported loss of service in the wake of a sparking wire Monday morning on a utility pole at Whiskey and Randall roads in Ridge, said a Verizon spokesman.
16. Speed urged on housing for homeless LI vets
    Sen. Charles Schumer called on federal officials Tuesday to streamline the transfer of a former military base in North Amityville, where a proposed housing project for homeless veterans must break ground by summer or face losing state funding.
17. LI plant preservation group gets $75G
    The Long Island Native Plant Initiative, a Riverhead-based nonprofit that focuses on preserving the Island's plants, has received a $75,000 grant from BP Solar.
18. Hundreds attend John Powell funeral
    More than 400 mourners -- from the state's chief administrative judge and state senators to grassroots GOP volunteers -- paid their last respects to former Suffolk Republican leader John Powell Tuesday.
19. Robber escapes with cash from Setauket bank
    A Setauket bank was robbed Tuesday afternoon by a man who showed a teller a note demanding cash and indicating that he had a weapon, police said.
20. Partnership would renovate historic sites
    From the outside, the county-owned house in Hubbard Park is a magnificent white colonial with green shutters that sits on an expansive parklike property in Hampton Bays; a historic home that could be used in a Hollywood movie scene.