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DEP proposing $15 license to fish Long Island Sound (Boston Globe) - For those hooked on fishing, especially in Long Island Sound, there may be a small price to pay in the future.

DEP Proposing $15 License to Fish Long Island Sound (1010 WINS New York) - For those hooked on fishing, especially in Long Island Sound, there may be a small price to pay in the future. The state Department of Environmental Protection is pushing for an annual $15 saltwater fishing license.

Siemens wins Long Island power contract (Crain's New York Business) - The German firm said it won a $450 million deal to supply equipment, operation and maintenance for the Caithness Long Island Energy Center.

How did you spend the quietest week of the year on Block Island? (Block Island Times) - February vacation is upon us, and with school kids and their families away and the snowbirds long gone, this week marks the yearly nadir in Block Island's population. Despite the slow news week and lack of company, it is not all bad. The weather woke up from its three-week deep freeze, so that while the island feels deserted, it's far from feeling desolate.

Men-free tourism island planned (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Iran plans a female-only island to boost tourism in a northwest province, the Tehran-e Emrouz newspaper on Wednesday quoted a local official as saying.

Bodies of Murdered Women Flown Home to Long Island (The New York Sun) - Two Long Island women who were murdered in Arizona by a deranged student were flown to New York last night for burial, a rabbi who has been acting as a liaison to the families in Arizona said. Carol Kestenbaum and Nicole Schiffman, both 20 and sophomores in college, grew up in Bellmore, N.Y. Schiffman had flown from the University of Maryland to Tempe, Ariz., on Thursday to celebrate Kestenbaum's ...

Lawmakers question security of Plum Island disease center (Newsday) - Two New York lawmakers are raising concerns about security at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center as a result of a vacuum created by a five-month vacancy in its top job, and the decision by the Department of Homeland Security to remove its only federal protective service agent last fall.

Courier News Online - Police find stomach-churning squalor in Long Island home (Bridgewater Courier News) - GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) -- Police called to a suburban family's home encountered a stomach-churning scene: dozens of urine-filled bottles strewn amid animal feces, soiled toilet paper and trash piled several feet high.

2 Long Island Students Gunned Down In Arizona (WCBS-TV New York) - Two high school friends from Long Island were killed in cold blood, and police say the gunman's motive was his own love life. The two girls were 2005 graduates of John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore and were reportedly shot one of them disapproved of the gunman's love life. CBS 2's Brendan Keefe will bring you live reports from Tempe starting Monday night at 11 p.m.

Long Island Man Accused of Groping Girl, 4 Others (1010 WINS New York) - The father of a Long Island man who was arrested in a series of assaults, including an attack on an 11-year-old girl, said that his son is not a sexual predator but suffers from mental illness and should not have been released from a psychiatric ward.