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Schumer aims to curb Long Island diabetes rate (Newsday) - More than 220,000 Long Island residents had diabetes in 2006, up from 140,000 in 2004, Sen. Charles Schumer said yesterday as he proposed a series of steps to curb the increase.

Falling TV Kills Long Island Girl, 2 (FOX 5 New York) - A Coram, Long Island, child reached for a TV remote -- and it apparently cost her life. Two-year-old Angelina Cook was found unconscious in her home with a head injury on Friday. Police said she tried retrieve a remote from on top of the television which had been placed on a microwave cart. The cart overturned and the 75-pound television fell on Angelina.

Long Island has many top-paid school managers (Newsday) - Long Island is home to one of the heaviest concentrations of highly paid school administrators in the state: more than 2,000 superintendents, deputies, associates, assistants and other managers earning more than $153,000 in average salaries and benefits.

Long Beach bans firefighter calendar (WABC-TV New York) - A Long Island fire department is stopping the presses on its fundraising calendar.

Long Island Restaurant Worker Has Typhoid Fever (FOX 5 New York) - Nassau County health officials said a Long Island fast-food worker has typhoid fever. The patient handled food at a Mama Sbarro's in Hicksville. Health officials cautioned those who ate at the restaurant last weekend that they may have some risk of contracting the disease.

Breakaway Comoros island braced for attack (AFP via Yahoo! News) - The president of the Comoros on Monday ordered his army to retake the rebel island of Anjouan, as civilians there were warned of an imminent assault by African Union troops.

Tribune owner Zell reportedly offers Long Island-based Newsday, hears from bidders (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - NEW YORK - Just three months after taking Tribune Co. private, CEO Sam Zell already is considering selling off one of its biggest properties, the Long Island-based newspaper Newsday, according to news reports.

GORDO: LONG ISLAND ROCKS! (New York Post) - CAUSTIC kitchen king Gordon Ramsay, the star of "Hell's Kitchen" and "Kitchen Nightmares," says that some of the best chefs come from . . . Long Island. The winner of "Hell's Kitchen 2" was from Long Island. And the first two seasons of Bravo's...

Comoros leader green-lights assault on rebel island (AFP via Yahoo! News) - The president of the Comoros said Monday he had ordered his army to retake the rebel island of Anjouan, as civilians there were warned of an imminent assault by African Union troops.

Trial may save Long Island's eroding beaches (Newsday) - Seventy years ago, when the Hamptons were not much more than potato fields, Cynthia Hamlin Ireland's father, Brian, bought a small oceanfront lot on Potato Road in Sagaponack and built a summer retreat for his family.