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Ridership exceeds service Long Island Bus can provide (Newsday) - A long-simmering feud over how to fund Long Island Bus in Nassau County is literally leaving riders by the side of the road, as ridership outpaces the service the agency is able to provide, Long Island Bus President Neil Yellin said.

1 Shot Dead, 1 Wounded in Long Island Car Crash into Home (WCBS 880 New York) - One man has been found shot to do death and another severely wounded inside a car that crashed into a Long Island home. Police say the car struck a North Amityville house about 8:30 p.m. Friday and came to a rest in a side yard. Both occupants were found with gunshot wounds.

Long Island Presidents' Council announces finalists for annual school essay contest (Babylon Beacon) - The Long Island Presidents' Council, an association of teachers' union presidents, has selected finalists for their eighth annual School Essay Contest. This year's title was Why I Like Going Back to School in September. The contest was open to Long Island students, kindergarten through 12th grade, from districts throughout Nassau and Suffolk Counties.

Annual energy conference for Long Island Houses of Worship (Babylon Beacon) - The Long Island Interfaith Environmental Network (LIIEN) held its second annual conference featuring workshops on Energy Efficiency for Religious Congregations on April 16, at the Molloy College Suffolk Center in East Farmingdale.

Leg. Stern appears on WBAB/WBLI radio show to promote “Safe Teen Drive Long Island” (Babylon Beacon) - Suffolk County Leg. Steve Stern (D-Huntington), 16th LD recently appeared on WBAB/WBLI radio station in partnership with Allstate's Safe Teen Drive Long Island program, which is offering every public and private high school in Nassau and Suffolk counties, a $1,000 grant to increase safe driving awareness among teenagers.

Long Island families pass down Passover traditions (Newsday) - In a cafeteria at the Gurwin Jewish Geriatric Center in Commack Sunday, Miriam Chesney joined her mother, 94-year-old Herta Wormser, to commemorate the second night of Passover and join Jews worldwide to mark their freedom from bondage.

Long Island economy slows down, job growth pulls back (Long Island Business News) - The national downturn in the economy is evident on Long Island, posted weak job growth and a jump in unemployment in March, according to a state report.

NY officials auction Long Island tax evader's plane (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - An airplane owned by a Long Island man convicted of tax evasion is being auctioned by the state finance department. The New York state Department of Taxation and Finance says the sale of the single-engine aircraft takes place Thursday at Long Island Islip MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma.

BREAKING NEWS: Former Gordon priest to be sentenced for arranging tryst in Long Island at 5:24 p.m. (The Pottsville Republican & Herald) - A former priest who molested a Pottsville teenager in the 1980s, and pleaded guilty last year to arranging what he thought would be a tryst with a 15-year-old boy in Long Island, N.Y. in 2006, will be sentenced tomorrow in New York, according to the Associated Press.

'If you've enjoyed Plum Island, help to save it' 1970s crisis led to desperate measures (The Daily News of Newburyport) - PLUM ISLAND and mdash; It's happened before. While homeowners, citizens and city leaders from Newbury and Newburyport continue the fight to stop the growing erosion problem on Plum Island, for some, it's nothing they haven't already seen.