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Long Island radiation experts help train world's police (New York Newsday) - Rich Meehan and his band of radiation experts from Long Island and elsewhere are trying in a small way to cool some of the world's hot spots.

Smart, sassy and with a Long Island accent (Stamford Advocate) - I issued the challenge innocently enough: Dream up a fitting slogan for Long Island.

2 Plead Guilty in School Case on Long Island (New York Times) - Two former employees of the William Floyd School District pleaded guilty to grand larceny charges yesterday in Suffolk County Criminal Court in Riverhead.

Kwan Headed To Third Olympics, Long Island's Hughes Squeezed Out (WNBC) - Michelle Kwan showed she is good -- and healthy -- enough Friday for one more run at that elusive Olympic gold medal, squeezing out a spot that would've gone to Long Island native Emily Hughes.

Second casino planned for western Pacific island (AFP via Yahoo! News) - US investors are planning to spend 150 million dollars to build a second casino on an island in the US-administered Northern Mariana Islands even though an existing casino has attracted fewer visitors than expected.

Long Island 'Lolita' to face up to former lover and the wife she shot (Sunday Mail) - MORE than a decade after then 16-year-old Amy Fisher had a sexual relationship with a much-older car mechanic and shot and wounded his wife in the head, the one-time Long Island "Lolita" and Joey and Mary Jo Buttafuoco have agreed to appear together in a televised reunion.

Crowded houses gaining attention in suburbs (USA Today) - Tensions in the community of Farmingville, N.Y., finally erupted. The Long Island community where rancor spilled into the streets last summer is just one of several places where anger over immigration is playing out through the issue of overcrowded housing.

Man sentenced to prison in deaths of 4 teens on Long Island (New York Newsday) - MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) _ A man convicted of criminally negligent homicide and driving while impaired in the deaths of four teenagers killed when his sport utility vehicle collided with their car and sent it careening into a telephone pole was sentenced Monday to 1 1/3 to four years in prison.

Long Island U. 63, Sacred Heart 60 (WFSB 3) - NEW YORK -- James Williams scored 14 points to help Long Island University snap a three-game losing streak with a 63-60 victory over Sacred Heart on Thursday.

Long Island Man Killed in Tugboat Accident (1010wins.com) - Jan 30, 2006 11:00 am US/Eastern (1010 WINS) (MARLBORO, N.Y.) A Nassau County man has been killed when he fell off his tugboat between two barges in the Hudson River and was crushed. The Ulster County Sheriff's department says the accident happened around 2am Sunday off the shores of Marlboro.