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Spill Cleanup Continues on Some Long Island Beaches (WCBS 880 New York) - The Coast Guard says work crews have cleaned up about 75 percent of the globs of oil that washed up on some Long Island beaches.

Oil spill washes up on Long Beach Island (The Post-Standard) - New York - The U.S. Coast Guard was searching Friday for the source of an oil spill along several miles of oceanfront on the Atlantic and Lido beaches of Long Beach Island.

The Sisters of Greater Long Island fight breast cancer (Amityville Record) - October is Breast Health Awareness month. In preparation, The Sisters of Greater Long Island met at Carol Gordon's house, south of Merrick Road in Amityville.

Coast Guard Searches for Source of Long Island Oil Spill (New York Times) - Environmental crews using shovels and mesh scoops yesterday cleaned up the last remnants of a mysterious 500-gallon crude oil spill. Birds and marine life were not harmed.

Port Girls Tennis Team Wins Long Island Championship (Port Washington News) - On Wednesday, Nov. 7, the high school varsity tennis team beat Westhampton High School 5-2, capturing the Long Island tennis championship. This is only the second year of this competition.

Discontent on a Tip of the Island at the Center of the World (New York Times) - An eye-catching plan for the Maritime Building, a long-overlooked gem at the tip of Manhattan, is drawing praise but also harsh criticism.

No Lucic on Long Island (Boston Herald) - UNIONDALE, N.Y. - Milan Lucic did not make the trip with the Bruins to Nassau Coliseum and the rookie's status was termed as day-to-day. Lucic absorbed a blow to...

Int’l news agencies to advertise Ha Long Bay (Vietnam Net) - VietNamNet Bridge – Korea news agency KBS came to Vietnam Thursday to shoot a film about Ha Long Bay to broadcast on KBS channel.

Long Island football championship gallery (AM New York) - The East Islip football team could have walked on glass Friday and the players probably wouldn't get cut. It didn't matter how dire the situation looked, very little went wrong for the Redmen.

Cruise tourists spend second night on island (Daily Telegraph) - Up to half of the holidaymakers rescued from a cruise ship that sank in the Antarctic are to spend a second night on a remote island after bad weather hampered efforts to fly them out.