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Hersha to Acquire 2 Long Island Hotels For $39.5M (Commercial Property News) - Hersha Hospitality Trust of Philadelphia has agreed to pay $39.5 million for two hotels on Long Island, N.Y. The first is a six-story, 161-room Hampton Inn on the Long Island Expressway in Farmingville. It will cost $21.5 million.

Man Drowns At Long Island Beach (WNBC) - SHOREHAM, Long Island -- A Patchogue man has drowned in the waters off Shoreham Beach. Suffolk County police said the man was about 28 years old and probably Ecuadorean.

Eastern Union Commercial Goes Long on Long Island: Long Island Branch Office Expansion Makes Eastern Union Commercial (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - LAWRENCE, N.Y.----June 5, 2006--Just days after the Memorial Day weekend, the employees of the Long Island office of Eastern Union Commercial said good-bye to the cramped office space they occupied since November 2004 and hello to their spacious new offices at 355 Central Avenue in Lawrence, NY.

Casino boat leaks gas into Long Island bay (WABC-TV New York) - A massive clean up effort is underway on Long Island after a casino boat leaked gallons of fuel into a bay.

Long Island Ducks Fans Can Win $10,000 with Just a Few Perfect Pitches (PR Web) - The Long Island Ducks present the Mercury Insurance Perfect Pitch Skill Challenge, which gives fans the chance to win $10,000 (PRWEB Jun 4, 2006)

Small plane crashes in Long Island Sound (AP via Yahoo! News) - A Learjet registered to religious broadcaster Pat Robertson crashed in Long Island Sound while flying in heavy fog Friday, killing both pilots, authorities said. All three passengers escaped without serious injury.

Two Pilots Lost In Long Island Learjet Accident (The Aero-News Network) - Plane Registered To Evangelist May Have Hit Approach Light A Lear 35 registered to religious televangelist Pat Robertson went down in Long Island Sound Friday, a half-mile short of the runway at Groton-New London Airport. The three passengers onboard the plane escaped without serious injury, but both of the aircraft's pilots were killed.

2 killed, 3 rescued in jet crash in Long Island Sound (Boston Herald) - GROTON, Conn. - Two pilots were killed and three passengers suffered minor injuries when a small jet owned by religious broadcast Pat Robertson crashed in Long Island Sound while flying in heavy fog. ...

Greece special: An island fit for heroes (Belfast Telegraph) - The deities of ancient myth went island-hopping long before any backpackers arrived. Suzi Feay visits Samos, a tranquil retreat where one divine honeymoon lasted 300 years

Dilemma on an Alabama island: More money to fight nature's wrath? (USA Today) - Pounded by Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and then Katrina last year, Dauphin Island hardly resembles the paradise days of its past. About 300 beach homes were destroyed by the two storms, and as many as 50 lots are now in the Gulf of Mexico, which constantly reshapes this narrow spit of sand.