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Ellis Island's shuttered history slowly opening to public (The Philadelphia Inquirer) - Lady Liberty lofts her torch in a view from two shuttered buildings on Ellis Island. Restoration, long delayed, is progressing apace.

Long Island Legal Briefs: March 30, 2007 (RedNova) - By Ross Daly Spam it up: Touro conference eyes e-mail scoundrel What's in a name? That may be what Jonathan Ezor of Touro Law Center is asking himself. Ezor, an assistant professor at the school, is the director of its Institute for Business, Law and Technology.

Long-closed Ellis Island building reopens today (Tulsa World) - The newly restored Ferry Building is seen on Ellis Island, N.J., last week. The building, where many new Americans who successfully passed their legal and health inspections disembarked for destinations all over the country, will be open to the public Monday.

Alden Colvocoresses, 88; Would-Be Owner Of Island in Potomac (Washington Post) - Alden P. Colvocoresses, 88, a decorated Army colonel and U.S. Geological Survey mapmaker who unsuccessfully challenged the federal government for ownership of a duck-hunting island in the Potomac River, died March 27 at Inova Fairfax Hospital after a stroke.

Insurer must pay $5,000 for Long Island boy's breast reduction (Newsday) - An insurer that refused to pay for a teenage boy's breast reduction surgery on the ground that it was cosmetic must reimburse his father for the operation, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.

Restored Ellis Island Building Reopening (Eyewitness News 3 Hartford) - After a restoration project that historians call long overdue, one of several Ellis Island buildings is reopening.

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.

Fish stories Water tests may help bring back shellfishing to Long Island Sound (Greenwich Time) - Carol Rogers leaned over a 22-foot powerboat idling in the Mianus River yesterday afternoon, the sweat shirt she wore to protect against cool, cloudy skies brushing the black letters painted on the port side: ''Greenwich Shellfish Commission.''

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY / Brooks Island body possible suicide (San Francisco Chronicle) - The Contra Costa County Coroner identified on Monday the body found Saturday morning on Brooks Island off the coast of Richmond as that of 38-year-old Laura Pariseau of San Jose. A deputy coroner said she died of multiple blows but foul play is not...

A Milestone on Catalina Island: 2 Bald Eagles Hatch in the Wild (New York Times) - The development adds to hopes of conservationists who are struggling to restore Catalina?s once-thriving bald eagle population decades after pollutants devastated it.