Sea Cliff Mayor Elena Villafane handily retained her seat in the village's election after the founder of Pirate's Booty allegedly staged an attempted coup of the local government just days before ...

Resident and Pirate’s Booty founder Robert Ehrlich is not letting a little thing like an election get in his way of running the Village of Sea Cliff. Ehrlich and three other men arrived at ...

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Robert Ehrlich, who created Pirate’s Booty in 1987, has invoked an arcane New York state law called the Citizen Empowerment Act to create a “new” village within Sea Cliff, which is located ...

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citing an obscure New York law as grounds for his takeover Inc Village of Sea Cliff/Facebook The founder of the snack brand Pirate's Booty attempted to seize control of his coastal village's ...

A snack food magnate declared himself mayor of the Village of Sea Cliff, on Long Island. The voters said otherwise. By John Leland The little village of Sea Cliff, on Long Island’s north shore ...

Along some 70 miles of Southern California coastline, usually curious and playful sea lions are attacking humans in the water. The animals are being poisoned by the ocean they live in, experts say ...

SEA CLIFF, New York (WABC) -- An unexpected and peculiar fight is playing out in this one-square-mile village on Long Island as the fight for the mayor's seat in the village of Sea Cliff comes to ...

By dawn, nearly the entire village had succumbed to the sea, yet miraculously, there were no casualties. All 79 villagers had managed to escape during a break in the storm and sought refuge on ...

The Village of Sea Cliff blasted Ehrlich’s claims as “invalid and unsupported by law.” Ehrlich even called on Gov. Kathy Hochul to get involved and “set the record straight” for Sea Cliff.