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Long Island hosts blind baseball tourney (AP via Yahoo! News) - The ball beeped, the bases buzzed and the fans didn't cheer in this version of the national pastime. Four teams of blind baseball players turned out Saturday for a round-robin tournament on Long Island.

Fearnley wins Long Island 10k race (AAP via Yahoo!7 Sports) - Paralympian Kurt Fearnley returned to the winners list with his third victory in four years in the Long Island 10km road race in New York.

League of Women Voters Discusses Long Island "Crisis" (Port Washington News) - At a special meeting of the League of Women Voters (LWV) of Port Washington-Manhasset, Dr. Ann Golob, Long Island Index Project Director, led a discussion on the topic "The Crisis on Long Island."

Parents of starlet Lindsay Lohan battle out divorce in Long Island, N.Y. court (The Arizona Republic) - MINEOLA, N.Y. - The parents of troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan are fighting in a Long Island court over visitation of their younger children.

Long Island hosts blind baseball tourney (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) - The ball beeped, the bases buzzed and the fans didn't cheer in this version of the national pastime. Four teams of blind baseball players turned out Saturday for a round-robin tournament on Long Island. "This reminds me of when I could see and played in Little League," said Ted Fass, founder of the host Long Island Bombers. The home team was joined by the Pennsylvania Wolfpack, the Chicago ...

Murdoch to offer home on Long Island (Naples Daily News) - News Corp.’s chairman and chief executive, Rupert Murdoch, is preparing to sell his waterfront home on Long Island’s North Shore for $14.8 million, according to a broker retained by the family. The asking price for the home on Centre Island, an affluent community about 35 miles from Manhattan, would be nearly double what Murdoch and his wife, Wendi, paid four years ago.

Palm Island residents enjoy pricey digs (AP via Yahoo! News) - Four years ago there was nothing here but unbroken sea. Now there's Andrew Dukes and his luxury mansion — sitting on a palm-shaped, manmade island — the first of about 100 houses to open here.

Dogs seized from filthy Long Island home (USA Today) - A couple's discovery of their missing dog for sale on a pet adoption website led police to a Long Island home where more than 50 dogs were living in squalid conditions, authorities said.

More Long Island News (GlobeSt.com) - “We are absolutely convinced of the underlying market demand for the destination we propose,” says Jody Kriss, Bayrock vice president. “Long Island is ripe to profit from the 50 million annual visitors to the New York City region.”

Dogs seized from filthy Long Island home (AP via Yahoo! News) - A couple's discovery of their missing dog for sale on a pet adoption Web site led police to a Long Island home where more than 50 dogs were living in squalid conditions, authorities said.