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Oceanside 7th-grader wins Long Island spelling bee finals (Newsday) - After a string of difficult words, including "koan," "zeitgeber" and "dossier," Zachary Zagorski, 12, a seventh-grader from Oceanside Middle School, won the Long Island spelling bee championship Wednesday by correctly spelling "enclave" and "recurring."

Long Island, N.Y. Defense Firm Pleads Guilty to Bid Rigging on Department of Defense Contracts (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News) - A Long Island, N.Y., defense firm pleaded guilty and has agreed to pay a $275,000 criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to rig bids on U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) contracts for military tiedown equipment and cargo securing systems, the Department of Justice announced today.

Long Island woman with no pants charged with DWI (The Journal News) - YONKERS - A 22-year-old Long Island woman who, police said, was found standing in a west side street without her pants is facing drunken-driving charges in the city.

Yonkers cops: Long Island woman with no pants charged with DWI (The Journal News) - YONKERS - A 22-year-old Long Island woman who police said was found standing in a west side street without her pants is facing drunken driving charges in Yonkers.

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.

Former mattress executive, long-time island resident Grant G. Simmons Jr., dies (Island Packet) - Grant G. Simmons Jr., the longtime chief executive of his family's famous mattress company before turning his energy to growth control on Hilton Head Island in retirement, died March 16 at his home in TidePointe. He was 88.

Blog: Long Island at top of state's mortgage crisis (Newsday) -

Comoros rebel leader flees to French-run island (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Comorian rebel leader Mohamed Bacar has fled to the French-run Indian Ocean island of Mayotte from nearby Anjouan where Comorian troops had been searching for him, French and Comorian officials said on Wednesday.

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.