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Long Island: The 51st state? (Newsday) - Long Island -- bigger than 19 states and more populous than all but the country's three largest cities -- is big enough to stand on its own, secede and become the 51st state, said Suffolk Comptroller Joseph Sawicki.

Long Island Teacher Accused Of Having Sex With 16 Year Old Boy (FOX 5 New York) - A 25-year-old female teacher at Wantagh High School on Long Island allegedly had sex with a 16-year-old boy. Police arrested Heather Kennedy, 25, of Massapequa and charged her with third-degree rape and endangering the welfare of a child. According to cops, Kennedy had sex with the boy in the middle of the day on March 20 at his home.

Long Island Teacher Accused Of Having Sex With 16 Year Old Boy (FOX 5 New York) - A 25-year-old female teacher from Wantagh High School on Long Island allegedly had sex with a 16-year-old male. Police arrested Heather Kennedy, 25, of Massapequa and charged her with rape. According to cops, the teacher had sex with the boy in the middle of the day on March 20.

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.