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Mary J. Blige & JAY-Z: Heart Of The City Tour Sells Out in Just Hours in Baltimore, Long Island, NY, East Rutherford, ... (The San Francisco Examiner) - LOS ANGELES , Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the most highly anticipated concert tours in recent memory, the Mary J. Blige & JAY-Z: Heart of the City tour, sold out in Baltimore , Long Island, NY, East Rutherford, NJ, Boston and Washington DC , within hours this past Saturday.

Island time for Ocracoke woman stretched for more than a century (The Virginian-Pilot) - OCRACOKE ISLAND In all of her 103 years, Muzel Bryant rarely left Ocracoke Island, and that was fine with her. As long as she could read her newspaper every day and visit with friends and neighbors, she was content. Bryant, a member of Ocracoke's only black family and the last one residing on t ...

Teachers union in Puerto Rico declares a strike, threatening to shutter schools across island (The Kansas City Star) - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico | Puerto Rico’s teachers union declared a strike Wednesday, threatening to shutter schools across the island after a breakdown in long-stalled contract talks.

J.LO'S DELIVERY ROOM ON STANDBY: No one allowed in private space reserved at Long Island hospital. (Eurweb) - *When Jennifer Lopez finally goes into labor to push out those twins, her delivery room at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island will be good and ready for the drama. After all, it's been on standby for the past two weeks.

Vineyard Planned for Staten Island (WNYC New York Public Radio) - Looking for a taste of Tuscany? You may not have to go too far for too long. Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro and Tuscan winemaker Piergiorgio Castellani Jr. toured the future site of ....

From his small island, Castro had long reach (Sun-Sentinel) - World leaders respond to his resignation Fidel Castro may have resigned as Cuba's president, but he remains a towering figure, loved and hated across continents. Long after he ditched his cigar and traded military fatigues for tracksuits, Castro remains both a Cold War icon and a model of resistance to the world's lone superpower.

Long Island planetarium's new telescope in time for lunar eclipse (FOX 5 New York) - A total lunar eclipse will occur Wednesday night, and the Vanderbilt Museum and Planetarium on Long Island plans to use its new telescope to see it.

U.S., Cuban relations, life on island unlikely to undergo big change (Modesto Bee) - Fidel Castro's departure as Cuba's president probably will not spark immediate change in the lives of everyday Cubans or a rapid thawing of the long-frosty relations between the communist-ruled island and the United States, analysts said after Castro's announcement Tuesday.

Pedestrian Finds Lenoir Man's Stabbed Body In Long Island Parking Lot (WSOC-TV Charlotte) - HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- The body of a North Carolina man has been found in a Long Island parking lot. Nassau County police say a pedestrian passing by the Hempstead lot early Sunday morning saw the man lying on the ground and called for help.

DNR fee irks island airboat shuttle operator (Detroit News) - HARSENS ISLAND -- When ice jams docked the Harsens Island ferry for two weeks last year, Bob Bryson and his airboat came to the rescue.