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Big Brown Long Island-bound (New York Daily News) - Big Brown - whose owners and jockey hail from Long Island - needs to win Long Island's Belmont Stakes in three weeks to become the first Triple Crown winner in 30 years.

Long Island co-owner ecstatic as Big Brown heads to Belmont (Newsday) - Perhaps no moment captured the magic of Richard Schiavo's recent adventure as the co-owner of a horse racing superstar more than when he put his 9-year-old son Zack on the school bus the morning after winning the Kentucky Derby.

Fire tears through home on Long Island (WABC-TV New York) - On Long Island: a home was badly damaged from a fire.

For sale: one Channel island. Tax haven, has own jail (AFP via Yahoo! News) - For sale: tiny Channel island. Includes own jail. One of the eight inhabited Channel islands off the northern coast of France has gone on the market, the estate agency handling the sale said.

Long Island job growth declines to 2-year low (Newsday) - The struggling Long Island job market declined to a two-year low in April, raising local economists' concerns about whether the region has fallen into a recession.

Bluefish, bass have headed east on Long Island (AM New York) - The wave of ravenous bluefish and hungry striped bass that surrounded Long Island's west end in recent weeks finally has rolled all the way east to Montauk and Orient points. To be sure, there were some choppers and stripers at just about every port in-between during the past 10 days, but the increased activity certainly is welcomed by east end anglers.

Cuomo to hold Long Island hearings on school pensions (Newsday) - State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday that he and a bipartisan group of state legislators will hold hearings on Long Island next week on the improper granting of pensions and other benefits by schools, special districts and local governments.

For sale: one Channel island. Tax haven, has own jail (AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) - For sale: tiny Channel island.

Rattlers Travel To Long Island For Season Opener (OurSports Central) - (Rochester, NY)... The Rochester Rattlers will open their 2008 Major League Lacrosse season with a road contest on Saturday, May 17th against the Long Island Lizards at 7:00 p.m. at Mitchel Field. The game is the first of two games against the Lizards.

Officer Struck In L.I.E. Crash Fights For His Life (WCBS-TV New York) - Both drivers involved in a serious crash on the Long Island Expressway that sent a police officer to the hospital in very critical condition Sunday morning have been charged with driving while intoxicated. Fighting for his life in a Long Island hospital is 30-year-old police officer Ken Baribault. Doctors say he has head and spinal injuries to overcome, and police say he has drunk drivers to ...