Week in Review: Dead Crab Mystery and DWI Driver Admits Fault

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The Department of Environmental Conservation is trying to find out why hundreds of blue crabs and horseshoe crabs have washed up dead on the shores of Tiana and Shinnecock Bays — and so far, there are no answers.

2. Cops: Speonk Man Beat Woman With Pool Stick, Pipe for Hours

 say they have arrested a 32-year-old Speonk man who severely beat a woman with a pool stick, metal pipe and stool for several hours on July 26 in a Speonk home.

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A civil court case between a Mattituck woman and the family of Joseph Marino ended on Thursday, when the two sides formally agreed to a financial restitution settlement and Caroline Goss admitting in an open courtroom that driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol led to the death of the 15-year-old Hampton Bays teen in August of 2009.

4. 

Micky Biss, the owner of the vacant Corner Restaurant in Westhampton Beach is demanding that Richard T. Haefeli, the village attorney, publicly apologize to him. 

In a letter overnighted to the village on Thursday, Biss alleges that statements made by Haefeli at a recent village board work session"constitute defamation" and are "actionable."

5. 

As promised, Westhampton developer Andrew Mendelson appeared before the Trustees on August 2, to request a public hearing for a 40,000 square-foot supermarket that he is proposing to construct on 4.2 acres that he owns on Old Riverhead Road.

Standing at the podium, Mendelson said, "I'd like the new board members to give this serious consideration and give the public a chance to weigh in. That is all I am asking for tonight."