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Long Island charities hurting for toys (Newsday) - As shoppers hit stores in droves in search of the perfect present this holiday season, some of Long Island's charities say they're hurting for toy donations for children.

Police: Long Island Student Smacked Guidance Counselor With Phone (WNBC) - Police say a guidance counselor at a Long Island high school has been beaten by an angry student.

An Island in the Hudson, Plundered in Search of Indian Artifacts (New York Times) - Magdalen Island is so pockmarked with looters’ holes that parts look more like a bombing range than a state-owned parcel of land listed on the national and state registers of historic places.

Thomas helps Bruins end Long Island jinx (The Record) - Tim Thomas stopped 33 shots to help the Boston Bruins win for the first time on Long Island in 11 games, 3-1, over the Islanders on Monday night at Uniondale, N.Y.

Car sales up on Long Island in first three quarters (Newsday) - Recession? What recession?

Dutch plan to build a new island (International Herald Tribune) - The Netherlands, the world leaders in land reclamation, are considering an island in the shape of a tulip to fight overcrowding and shield the coastline from the rising sea.

Prosecutor says Long Island millionaires tortured 2 housekeepers (The Jakarta Post) - CENTRAL ISLIP, New York (AP): Two Indonesian housekeepers were subjected to "punishment that escalated into a cruel form of torture," a prosecutor said in closing arguments at the trial of a millionaire couple charged with modern-day slavery.

Long Island companies' housewares up for design awards (Newsday) - Peter Giannetti doesn't want you to judge a vegetable peeler -- or a vacumn cleaner or coffee maker or trash can or tweezer -- on looks alone. That would be shallow indeed.

Long Island Special District elections Tuesday (Newsday) - Voters in Nassau and Suffolk counties will cast ballots Tuesday in elections in more than 150 special districts that provide fire, water and other services at a cost to taxpayers of tens of millions of dollars a year.

South Island fire danger soars (Stuff) - Total fire bans could be in place across much of the top of the South Island by Christmas as extreme early-summer conditions raise fears of a repeat of the destructive 2003-04 fire season.