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Protesters converge on Mare Island (The Reporter) - Promising a tooth-and-nail fight they've dubbed the "new LNG," dozens of Mare Island residents and others protested Saturday against a long-standing plan to fill some of the former naval shipyard's dredge ponds with goop scraped from the bottom of the Bay.

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.

Corsica Strife Challenges Young Gov't. (AP via Yahoo! News) - The flame of protest in Corsica — the bucolic birthplace of Napoleon long known for its rebellious streak — is burning bright again as labor strikes feed off the simmering independence movement on the French Mediterranean island.

Raptors play well enough to overcome Long Island (Reading Eagle) - Reading doesn't play its best game, but still manages to easily defeat the Seahawks. Had they been playing against playoff-caliber competition, the Reading Raptors may have been in trouble Saturday night at Don Thomas Stadium.

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

Big Island bus rides free for 3 months (Honolulu Advertiser) - Each day, dozens of Hilo-area residents get up before 4 a.m. and spend two hours on a county bus getting to their jobs across the island in Waikoloa. After work, it's another two-hour ride home. That's the equivalent of riding the Honolulu's No. 55 Circle Island route every day.