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Police: 2 Found Dead In Long Island Home (WCBS-TV New York) - Two bodies have been found in a Long Island house with apparent fatal gunshot wounds. Police say officers were called to a home this afternoon on Post Avenue in Elmont. They found a woman in her 40s and her ex-husband, in his 50s, both victims of gunshot wounds, dead in the woman’s bedroom.

Long Island Boater Missing Since Tuesday (1010 WINS New York) - are looking for a Long Island boater who has been missing for days. Ken Thomson's wife last saw him Tuesday afternoon. He left their home to do some maintenance on his boat mooring in Lloyd Harbor, and he hasn't come back. Police and the Coast Guardhave been looking for the 79-year-old Thomson since early Wednesday. Police plan to continue the search today.

Immigrants? Final Stop on Ellis Island to Reopen (New York Times) - The Ferry Building on Ellis Island is scheduled to reopen to the public Monday after a 5-year restoration project that cost $6.4 million.

Historic Ellis Island structure reopening (USA Today) - Abandoned and fallen into disuse for decades, a significant piece of American immigrant history is reopening on Ellis Island following extensive restoration.

Coney Island's Astroland To Velebrate Opening Day For Last Time (NY1 News) - It's long been a rite of summer for generations of New Yorkers, but this will be the last season for Coney Island's Astroland. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will be on hand to open the park today. It will close at the end of the year to make way for a sweeping redevelopment project.

Coney Island opens last season before renewal (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - With the traditional crash of a bottle of egg cream, Brooklyn's borough president on Sunday launched the Coney Island amusement park's last season ahead of a major redevelopment that will raze much of the lovably seedy boardwalk area.

Restored Ellis Island building to open (Denver Post) - Abandoned and fallen into disuse for decades, a significant piece of U.S. immigration history is reopening on Ellis Island after extensive restoration.

Ellis Island's last stop opens today (Detroit News) - ELLIS ISLAND, N.J . -- Abandoned and fallen into disuse for decades, a significant piece of American immigrant history is reopening on Ellis Island after extensive restoration.

Legs found on Long Island officially linked to Mamaroneck torso (The Journal News) - MAMARONECK - Police are operating under the assumption that two legs found on Long Island this week belong to the same woman whose stabbed torso washed up on a Mamaroneck beach March 3.

Legs that washed up on Long Island might match torso found across the sound, police say (Arizona Daily Star) - MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Both of the human legs that washed ashore on Long Island have similarities with a torso found in a suitcase on a beach across the sound, police said Thursday.