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SBA lender opens Long Island office (BizJournals) - Empire State Certified Development Corp., the arm of the New York Business Development Corp. dedicated to making U.S. Small Business Administration 504 second mortgage loans, is expanding its market into Long Island.

Long Island Sound Protection Bills Passed (East Hampton Independent) - Long Island Sound Protection Bills Passed The Long Island Sound will be a little cleaner thanks to two bills co-sponsored by Congressman Tim Bishop.

Long Island Man Charged With Murdering Youth Over Girlfriend (WNBC) - VALLEY STREAM, N.Y. -- A Long Island man was arrested Friday in connection with the shooting death of a young man who was sitting in a parked car, police said.

Long Island Man Acquitted Of Spa Sex Abuse (WNBC) - NEW YORK -- A masseur accused of inappropriately touching two customers at a spa on Long Island was acquitted of any criminal wrongdoing. A jury in Mineola said after the decision Friday that there wasn't enough evidence to convict Thomas Locascio, 57, of Floral Park.

Downpour causes flooding in Sth Island (TVNZ) - Torrential rain has flooded parts of the southern South Island damaging homes and businesses and causing shop evacuations. The hour-and-a-half long downpour caused flooding of homes and businesses in Wanaka, Arrowtown, Queenstown and Invercargill.

Long Island man acquitted of spa sex abuse (Newsday.com) - NEW YORK (AP) _ A masseur accused of inappropriately touching two customers at a spa on Long Island was acquitted of any criminal wrongdoing.

Man arrested for drunken driving on Long Island flees in police cruiser (CNews) - SELDEN, N.Y. (AP) - A man arrested on Long Island, N.Y., on Saturday for alleged drunken driving slipped off his handcuffs, slid into the driver's seat of a police car and sped off, police said.

Cablevision to Cancel $3 Billion Dividend (AP via Yahoo! News) - Cablevision Systems Corp., a Long Island-based cable TV provider, on Monday said it would cancel a special $3 billion dividend after finding that it had violated the terms of its bank borrowing agreement. The company also said it would cancel a $1 billion bond offering.

Cablevision Cancels $3 Billion Dividend (AP via Yahoo! News) - Cablevision Systems Corp., a Long Island-based cable TV company, on Monday said it would cancel a special $3 billion dividend after finding it had violated the terms of its bank borrowing agreement.

Monkey Island makeover starts with new breeding program (Myrtle Beach Online) - CHARLESTON, S.C. - A big blond gold, male rhesus monkey leaps to a long-fallen tree, lunges and bites a female sitting with her child. She leaps away and the male takes her place.