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Awaiting Hollywood Glitter Along the East River (New York Times) - Queensbridge Houses, America's largest public housing development, is a six-square-block maze of brown clover-shaped buildings and worn courtyards, some within sight of the East River. The complex, in Long Island City just north of the Queensboro Bridge, houses more than 7,000 people and is so large that residents sometimes call it a city within the city.

Cent. Connecticut 81, Long Island 58 (WFSB 3) - NEW BRITAIN, Conn. -- Tristan Blackwood had 21 points and six assists to lead Central Connecticut to an 81-58 win over Long Island on Wednesday. Lenny Jefferson added 15 for the Blue Devils, who jumped out to a fast start.

Long Island Power Authority Named in Class Action for Charging Its Customers Millions of Dollars in Improper Rate (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - The law firms of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP and Jaspan Schlesinger Hoffman LLP today filed a class action lawsuit against the Long Island Power Authority on behalf of all residential and business customers of LIPA since 2001 seeking to recover monies paid to LIPA as a result of LIPA's improper rate increases. The plaintiff, a resident of Suffolk County, has seen her electric bills

Long Island to La Vergne (Daily News Journal) - The country music buffs married in August 1999, and in January 2000 they took their honeymoon in Nashville. They'd already taken a family honeymoon with their two sons to the Crayola factory in Pennsylvania.

Long Island Nonprofit Briefs: February 24, 2006 (RedNova) - By Henry E. Powderly II Special exhibitionThe Nassau County Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities and Hofstra University have announced their Art Expressions art exhibition will take place from Feb. 28 to April 27.

Sado Island seeks to woo foreign residents (Daily Yomiuri Online) - To stop the decline in Sado Island's population, the Niigata prefectural government is considering allowing foreign immigrants who wish to live on the island in the Sea of Japan to more easily obtain permanent residency.

Army presents long-lost dog tags to remaining Crawford siblings (This Ithaca Journal) - ITHACA - The dog tags' journey began around the neck of Pfc. Douglas J. Crawford, a Long Island native drafted into the U.S. Army who fought for his country, and was killed, in the Vietnam War.

One Dead in Long Island Highway Accident (AP via Yahoo! News) - A car carrying two children swerved through traffic on a Long Island highway, hitting at least three vehicles before colliding with another and killing one person, police said.

Children's museum sees high turnout (Newsday) - Benefiting from schools' midwinter break, the Long Island Children's Museum broke its single-day attendance figure early last week -- and then topped the benchmark again on Thursday.

Hybrid Cars to Get High-Occupancy Waiver (New York Times) - Certain hybrid-power cars will be allowed to use H.O.V. lanes on the Long Island Expressway starting on March 1, regardless of how few people are in the car.