Week in Review: Inspection Records, Fire Drill, Seal Rescue

Here's a look at the top headlines in Riverhead this week.

East End Hospitals Strike Deal With Blue Cross

The East End Health Alliance on Friday struck a contact extension deal with Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, ending a brief period in which the three hospitals in the alliance stopped accepting the popular insurance, according to an update posted online.

State health inspection records show a pattern of health hazards at the JD Grocery Store in Riverhead, including three separate occasions where inspectors have had to destroy insect-infested food before it could reach consumers.

Most recently, the bodega, at 873 Old County Road, failed inspection after nearly 5 pounds of cornmeal infested with beetles was found. It was the ninth time the market has failed since 2003, according to public information supplied by the state's Department of Agriculture and Markets.

Area firefighters participated in a three-hour aircraft burn drill, sponsored by the 106th Air Rescue Wing at a remote location at Gabreski Airport over the last several days.

During the drill, firefighters from Westhampton Beach, East Quogue, Quogue, Eastport, Riverhead, Flanders and Mannorville — all have mutual aid agreements with the base — took turns to suit-up and battle two-story high flames that engulfed a mobile aircraft fire simulator, which resembles a 50-foot fuselage with damaged wings.

Five Women Sue County Over Alleged Sexual Abuse At Jail

Suffolk County has been slapped with a new lawsuit involving the Suffolk County Correctional Facility.

According to a Newsday report, five women have filed a federal lawsuit, alleging that they and others were "sexually assaulted, harassed and degraded by a male correction officer" at the facility.

A sex offender who failed to register with police for a second time after listing a vacant South Fork home as his address was caught last week by police on the off-chance that he was driving by the detective who was searching for him, according to police.

Southampton Town Police reports state thatWayne Kinkade, a level two sex offender who was convicted of first-degree sodomy in 1990, was arrested last Tuesday in Aquebogue. Southampton Town Det. Patrick Aube said that Kinkade had been wanted by police since they realized that the home he registered at last December – located at 134 Hill Station Rd. in Shinnecock Hills – was an "abandoned house with not heat or electric."

Planning on heading into an opening series game at Yankee Stadium or Citi Field? If so, home actually won't be too far.

According to a couple media reports – on CBS New York and Newsday – DeLea Sod Farm will be once again providing sod to the home teams after being grown on DeLea plots all around Suffolk County – from E. Northport to Miller Place to Calverton.

Experts Talk Bullying -- And What Parents Can Do To Help Kids

Jamie Isaacs was only eight years old when she was first bullied.

After sharing her story with Patch following a presentation she gave in Flanders in October, Jamie's story touched a chord among Patch readers.

"The bullying started when I was in second grade," Jamie, who lives in Lake Grove but attends school in St. James, said. "The girl that bullied me was my best friend. I had so much pain inside of me."But Jamie was not alone: Scores of teens and children are bullied on a regular basis -- and the results can be devastating, experts say.

Riverhead Foundation Rescues 2 Seal Pups [PHOTOS & VIDEO]

The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation rescued two female gray seal pups that came ashore on opposite ends of the South Fork on Sunday.

Kim Durham, the rescue program coordinator and a biologist, said the organization responded to two calls — one from Westhampton and one from Montauk.

In Montauk, a couple found . Durham said a fragment was lodged in her body.