Smithtown Councilman Thomas Lohmann attended his first town board meeting Tuesday since being accused of assaulting a fellow lawmaker last month. Lohmann took his usual seat on the dais as the 2 p.m.

They're both Republicans, they sit together on the Smithtown Town Board, and they're even the same age. So why Councilmen Thomas Lohmann and Thomas J. McCarthy got into an altercation that led to ...