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Causeway for Long Island still on table: Hickey (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News) - A causeway to connect Long Island with other communities on Newfoundland's northeast coast would cost about $26 million, but may still be feasible, provincial Transportation Minister John Hickey says.

Police Say Long Island Husband Hired Hit Man To Kill Wife (WNBC) - CENTRAL ISLIP, Long Island -- A 51-year-old Long Island man is being accused by police of hiring a hit man to kill his wife. The Suffolk district attorney said Gary Katz will be arraigned Tuesday on charges of conspiracy and criminal solicitation.

Long Island University Supports Critical Applications With Cisco Data Center Solutions (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - SAN JOSE, Calif.----Cisco Systems® today announced that Long Island University , one of the largest and most comprehensive institutions of higher education in the country, has deployed a storage area network based on Cisco MDS 9216i Multilayer Fabric Switches, as well as an end-to-end Cisco data center architecture.

Matt Balitsaris Music Business Seminar at Long Island University's Jazz Clinic Series Tuesday, October 24, 4:00 - 6:00 (All About Jazz) - Record producer and founder of Palmetto Records, Matt Balitsaris will lead a music business seminar as part of Long Island University's Jazz Clinic Series.

New Jersey vs. Long Island: Where's the Better Music? (WNYC New York Public Radio) - Last week, organizers announced a Long Island Music Hall of Fame, whose first inductees include Billy Joel, Dee Snider of Twisted Sister, Vanilla Fudge, Mose Allison, and Harry Chapin. At the same time, there's a music hall of fame in the works for New Jersey as well. Today, the organizers of both halls join us as we ask: Tony Bennett or Frank Sinatra? Bruce Springsteen or Billy Joel? Yo La Tango

Why Hillary wants to win Long Island (Newsday) - During the 2000 campaign, the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association subjected Hillary Rodham Clinton to a grilling she might have expected at Bill O'Reilly's family picnic. Seventeen hostile union officials badgered her for hours about her husband's morality and rumors about her ties to '60s radicals. Then they whisked her out the door and backed Republican Rick Lazio.

Long Island residents push for causeway (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News) - Residents of an island off Newfoundland's northeast coast want the provincial government to build a causeway rather than retool its ferry service.

Claims Against Karate School Over Broken Nose Dismissed (Law.com via Yahoo! Finance) - A woman whose nose was broken during a sparring match at a Long Island, N.Y., karate school was an experienced practitioner of the sport and had assumed the inherent risk of injury or "even death," a state judge has concluded in dismissing her lawsuit against the school and its owner.

Miami Plans Island Home for Mega-Yachts (NPR) - A worldwide boom in the construction of mega-yachts leaves a shortage of places to dock them. A $480 million development in Miami's Biscayne Bay would be able to accommodate 50 boats up to 465 feet long.

Teen gunned down in L.I. road ambush (New York Daily News) - A gunman in a black car ambushed a young carpenter driving on a Long Island road, fatally shooting him in the head as the teen's passenger frantically called 911, cops said yesterday.