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"Long Island's Role In The Civil War" (Garden City News) - Garden City Public Library Sunday, January 28th 2:00PM Museum curator, Harrison Hunt, will offer a fascinating slide-lecture presentation examining Long Island's Role in the Civil War. Learn about troops from Long Island, homefront activities and what it was like to live on Long Island during the War Between the States. Mr.

Long Island bank robberies are up (Newsday) - Police and experts say drug addiction and tough times are among the reasons for the increase. Greed. Desperation. Drug addiction. All are chief reasons behind most bank robberies, which are increasing across Long Island, experts said.

Northeast Conference at Long Island (KXMB CBS12 Bismarck) - AP-BKC Half: MTSM 34 LNGI 30 Northeast Conference at Long Island Half: Mount St. Mary's 34 Long Island 30 (Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) APNP 01-04-07 1847CST

AirAsia's Fernandes in it for the long haul with new carrier (AFP via Yahoo! News) - If anyone can make budget airline travel profitable on long-haul routes, it is Malaysian aviation pioneer Tony Fernandes, analysts say.

Legislator Steve Stern announces removal of railroad car from Long Island Expressway in Dix Hills (Babylon Beacon) - Suffolk County Legislator Steve Stern (D-Huntington) 16th LD announced that the old deteriorated railroad car "Visitors Center" that had been located on the South Service Road of the Long Island Expressway in Dix Hills for almost 20 years has been removed by the Suffolk County Department of Public Works.

Young graffiti artist hit, killed by N.Y. train (USA Today) - A 13-year-old boy had just finished painting graffiti near railroad tracks he was struck and killed by a commuter train, authorities and friends said Saturday. A Long Island Rail Road train hit Ari Kraft between stations in Queens during the evening rush hour Friday, police said.

Rats, not men, to blame for death of Easter Island (Independent) - It was the first and most extreme ecological disaster. Easter Island, in the south Pacific, once lush with subtropical broadleaf forest, was left barren and vast seabird colonies were destroyed after the arrival of man.

Island connects to mainland, causing worries about bird (Boston Globe) - A recent storm has connected South Monomoy Island off Chatham with the mainland, causing worries about new threats to the island's endangered birds.

Life in prison for MS-13 gang member on Long Island (Boston Herald) - CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A member of the MS-13 street gang, convicted of conspiring to murder a fellow gang member suspected of being a police informant, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole.

Performing panto: Local theater troupe presents improv-inspired 'Treasure Island' (Eagle-Tribune Online) - Jim Hawkins, check. Long John Silver, check. Floody Mary, the Wicked Witch of the Wet? Nope, you won't find her in 19th-century author Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "Treasure Island."