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Monsterous toxic weed on the attack on Long Island (New York Daily News) - It's called giant hogweed, and this Godzilla of weeds produces a hefty stalk that can reach 15 feet high and sprout leaves as wide as 5 feet. And it's here on Long Island.

Miniburgers are big all over Long Island (Newsday) - It's the greasy fingers, the satisfied smiles, the dabs of ketchup on linen napkins that present the telltale signs: There are "sliders" on the menu. Those clever little mini-burgers are slipping onto plates all over Long Island -- at bistros, steak houses, pubs, even Asian fusion and Mexican restaurants.

Long Island School Bans Costumes on Halloween (WCBS 880 New York) - Call it the Misadventure of Captain Underpants and the Peeved Principal. A suburban Long Island high school has banned all Halloween costumes after three senior girls showed up last year dressed as the underwear-baring subject of a series of best-selling children's books.

Long Island lawmaker fights back (The Post-Standard) - It's the cupcake revolt. After at least eight school districts on Long Island banned desserts, including the cupcake, at school birthday parties, one legislator decided to fight back.

In Search of Governors Island (The New York Sun) - Plans to redevelop Governors Island bring to mind the changing relationship of the city to its harbor over the several centuries of its rapid growth. Once upon a time, Manhattan was one island among other islands in the bay of New York, but not the biggest, by any means. Staten Island — despite its diminished scale on our city's subway maps — was, and remains, almost twice the size, and Long ...

Avery Island, La.: Tabasco and wildlife (AP via Yahoo! News) - Not long after you cross the little bridge leading over Bayou Petite Anse — "Little Cove'" in the Cajun French spoken in these parts — whiffs of the spicy fragrance of Tabasco pepper drift through the air.

Whale stranded on Makian island`s coast, North Maluku (Antara News) - A 10-meter-long whale ran aground on the Peleri coast of Makian Island, Halmahera Selatan District, North Maluku, on Sunday (Oct. 28).

Trial opens for millionaire couple accused of slavery on NY's Long Island (Seattle Times) - A pair of Indonesian women brought to the United States to work as housekeepers were starved, deprived of sleep and repeatedly stabbed and...

homeNYC Provides "Save Ellis Island" Multi-Platform Campaign With A Full Roster of Production, Visual FX & Editorial ... (Broadcast Newsroom) - DMN Newswire--2007-10-29--If walls could talk, the historic buildings on New York’s Ellis Island, the gateway to America for millions of immigrants, would bring history to life – and Phillips-Van Heusen’s (PVH) Arrow Apparel brand’s new campaign, “Save Ellis Island,” is helping them do just that.

Sisters Stranded on a St. Croix River Island (KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul) - The folks on Gilligan's Island were just out for a 3 hour tour. Erin and Holly Stojan, sisters from St. Paul, were