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Long Island Man Dies During Police Encounter (1010wins.com) - (1010 WINS) MOUNT SINAI, Long Island Police are investigating the death of a 31-year-old Mount Sinai man who stopped breathing while he was being handcuffed.

Bandits Stick Up Long Island Casino Boat (1010wins.com) - (1010 WINS) FREEPORT, Long Island Police hope security cameras caught some of the robbers who held up a casino boat in Freeport over the weekend. Police say a gang of four to six armed men robbed most of the 350 passengers and then robbed the safe of the Majesty Casino boat Saturday night.

Driver Killed In Long Island Crash (WNBC) - ISLIP TERRACE, N.Y. -- A Long Island man was killed Sunday morning when he lost control of his father's Cadillac on a curve and crashed into a mailbox and tree, Suffolk County police said.

Long Island Crisis Center open house hotline ribbon cutting ceremony (Babylon Beacon) - Long Island Crisis Center (LICC) invites the public to its annual Open House, on Sunday, October 16, from 4 - 7p.m., at Long Island Crisis Centers facilities (2740 Martin Avenue, Bellmore).

Strikes on rebellious island rock France (Chicago Sun-Times) - BASTIA, Corsica -- 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.

LONG ISLAND BRIEFS (Newsday.com) - BODY FOUND IN FIRE-DAMAGED HOME IDENTIFIED. Suffolk police yesterday tentatively identified the body found in a house later damaged by fire in Central Islip as Joseph J. Bartnikowski.

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.

Island a peaceful oasis only minutes away from Halifax bustle (Brandon Sun) - MCNABS ISLAND, N.S. Mike Tilley s motor boat cuts through the choppy surf, landing gently on a dark sandy beach that has for years been his near-private playground.

North Shore-LIJ receives FDA approval for new drug application to manufacture PET scan drug (EurekAlert!) - MANHASSET, NY -- The Institute for Medical Research of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System today announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to manufacture a drug used for diagnostic imaging with positron emission tomography (PET), a scanning technique that generates internal pictures of the human body at work.