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Lawyer wins 15-mile swim across Long Island Sound (Boston Globe) - Way before the five jellyfish attacked and a kamikaze duck dove at Jeremy Virgil -- possibly mistaking his fair skin for the Long Island Sound blue-plate special -- the lawyer believed the St. Vincent's Swim Across the Sound might challenge him.

North Babylon Phelps Lane Pool named Best Kiddie Pool on Long Island (Babylon Beacon) - Long Island residents have named the kiddie pool at the Phelps Lane Pool in North Babylon "Best Kiddie Pool on Long Island" in a poll conducted by News 12 Long Island. The entire Phelps Lane Pool complex was completely reconstructed in 2003 with brand new state of the art facilities, including the i

FiOS TV Rolls a Seven on Long Island (MultiChannel News) - The Village of Mineola, N.Y., became the seventh Long Island community and the 11th in the state to grant Verizon Communications a cable franchise.

Bacteria Levels Close 6 Long Island Beaches (WNBC) - HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. -- Health officials on Long Island closed six Suffolk County beaches Wednesday due to high levels of bacteria in the water.

Boy Drowns in Long Island Pool (1010 WINS New York) - A 16-month-old boy drowned in his family's Long Island pool Tuesday evening.

Hawaii Travelers Met By Long Lines (KITV TheHawaiiChannel.com via Yahoo! News) - The new ban on carry-on luggage containing liquid created some long lines at Honolulu International Airport on Thursday.

Teenager Fatally Shot by Father of 2nd Youth in a Confrontation (New York Times) - What started out as a night of fun for teenagers at a summer party on Long Island turned into a confrontation and ended in death of a 17-year-old.

Feds Aim to Close Plum Island Research Lab (1010 WINS New York) - Plum Island, a government facility off Long Island where dangerous animal diseases have been studied since the1950's, will not be rebuilt according to a list of possible replacement sites released Wednesday by the government.

U.S. opts not to rebuild Plum Island (Newsday) - Plum Island, a government facility off Long Island where dangerous animal diseases have been studied since the 1950's, will not be rebuilt according to a list of possible replacement sites released Wednesday by the government.

Gary Van Sickle: Predictions for each player at the PGA (Sports Illustrated) - Chicago is my kind of town. Of course it is, it's the golf capital of the country. There are more good golf courses in the metropolitan sprawl that is Chicagoland than anywhere else. (Sorry about that, Long Island.) Medinah, site of this weeks' PGA Championship, is as good as any and has provided exciting moments such as Sergio Garcia's jump and Hale Irwin's high-five run. What's going to happen