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East Coast to Help Gulf Coast: Long Island Music Community Presents Exciting Hurricane Katrina Benefit Concert (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - Long Islanders looking for ways to help victims of Hurricane Katrina are invited to attend an exciting musical benefit on Saturday, October 15, titled "From Long Island to Louisiana With Love" at The Inter-Media Art Center, 370 New York Avenue in Huntington.

ANGEL ISLAND / Immigrants left their marks / Poems were carved into the Bay Area's detention barracks (San Francisco Chronicle) - Hundreds of heartfelt poems were carved into the walls by those detained at Angel Island's Immigration Station during an era when it was U.S. government policy to drastically limit the number of Chinese and Asian immigrants. The poems, a long-forgotten...

Two More West Nile Cases On Long Island (1010wins.com) - (1010 WINS) MINEOLA, Long Island There are two more human cases of West Nile Virus in Nassau County -- bringing the number this year to six. The State Health Department says the latest cases are a 79-year-old man from Bellmore who is in in the hospital - but improving.

Junior Gotti trades lockup for Long Island mansion (KBCI Boise) - NEW YORK The son of late mob boss John Gotti is out of prison and back at his Long Island, New York home, after six years behind bars. Junior Gotti will remain under house arrest pending a retrial in a racketeering case.

Ithaca's location discovered? Researchers says it's on island of Cephalonia (Seattle Times) - The long-lost city of Ithaca, home of the legendary hero Odysseus in the "Iliad" and "Odyssey," is on the island of Cephalonia off the western...

Four Points by Sheraton Opens First Hotel on Long Island (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - Four Points by Sheraton, Starwood Hotels & Resorts' moderately-priced brand, announces the grand opening of its first hotel on Long Island -- Four Points by Sheraton Plainview. The newly constructed 103-room hotel is conveniently located off the island's main east-west highway -- the Long Island Expressway, and close to the area's renowned beaches including Jones Beach, Robert Moses State Park

LONG ISLAND BRIEFS (Newsday.com) - MAN ARRESTED IN MOLESTATION. Port Washington police have arrested a North Bellmore man for two counts of sexual abuse, charging that he molested a local 16-year-old high school girl he met over the Internet.

Junior Gotti gets homecoming on Long Island (Newsday.com) - NEW YORK -- Trading in his role as prisoner for family man, John A. "Junior" Gotti was released from jail on Wednesday and greeted at his Long Island estate by a cardboard sign at the entrance reading, "Welcome Home Dad."

Junior Gotti trades federal lockup for Long Island mansion (New York Daily News) - After six years behind bars, the son of late mob boss John Gotti swapped a prison cell for a pricey mansion on Long Island s Gold Coast on Wednesday after his release on $7 million bond.

Long Island Financial Corp. Sets Date of Special Shareholders' Meeting (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - Long Island Financial Corp. announced today that its Board of Directors has set November 16, 2005, as the date of its Special Meeting of Shareholders to vote on the Company's pending merger with New York Community Bancorp, Inc. .