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Beached Long Island Whale Loses Fight For Life (WCBS-TV New York) - A pilot whale found beached on Long Island's Lido Beach has died, rescuers said Tuesday. The stranded whale's fluke and fins were moving amid the fiercely blowing wind and sand when the mammal was discovered Monday morning. An immediate SOS was relayed to the Riverhead Foundation Rescue Program. Its marine biologists did manage to move the whale to their base in Riverhead. However, they said, the ...

Former Long Island Teacher and Elementary School Principal Arrested for Child Exploitation and Enticement (U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News) - Suffolk County resident John Monetti, 38, a former Long Island school teacher and elementary school principal, was arrested this morning on federal charges relating to child exploitation, announced U.S. Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf for the Eastern District of New York and U.S. Attorney Joe W. Stecher for the District of Nebraska.

Raw Materials--Clinic with Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus Tuesday, ... (All About Jazz) - RAW MATERIALS, featuring Pianist VIJAY IYER and alto saxophonist RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA, will perform as part of Long Island University's Jazz Clinic Series.

Rare turtles up for sale along with Malaysian island (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - For sale: a plain little island, overgrown by shrubs, offering a scrap of beach and sitting in one of the world's busiest sea lanes.

Long Island Technology Briefs: March 2, 2007 (RedNova) - By Ross Daly Keeping an Eagleye on possible computer imposters Everyone who uses a computer does so in subtly different ways: different keystroke speeds, different mouse acceleration, different clicking patterns, different Web sites.

A long goodbye (Craig Daily Press) - In 1970, a 23-year-old woman from Long Island, N.Y., packed up her Volkswagen Bug and headed west. She landed in Craig, a small mining town in Northwest Colorado, and didn't know a soul.

'Witch' Trial Under Way on Long Island (1010 WINS New York) - Was she casting spells or teaching spelling? A former teacher fired from her job at a Hampton Bays elementary school has filed a $2 million federal lawsuit, claiming she was improperly dismissed because the administration and others thought she was a witch.

Verde Island Passage centre of world's marine biodiversity (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Verde Island Passage south of Manila has been described as the "centre of the centre" of the world's marine biodiversity in a joint study by America's Smithsonian Institute.

Island Home begins service (Martha's Vineyard Times) - The Steamship Authority (SSA) officially welcomed the M/V Island Home into the ferry fleet at a commissioning ceremony held Saturday that had the distinct feel of an Island block party.

LIRR chief hears complaints (Newsday) - The acting president of the Long Island Rail Road, Ray Kenny, listened Wednesday to riders' concerns on subjects ranging from the proposed Third Track project to toilet seats at Penn Station.