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Charlotte Draws with Long Island 0-0 - Playoffs ahead for Charlotte (OurSports Central) - (Charlotte, NC) - The Charlotte Eagles played their last regular season home game tonight hosting the Long Island Rough Riders. Although the Eagles dominated play on the field, they were unable to finish. The game ended in a 0-0 tie.

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.

On Dutch-flavored island, an ill wind rarely blows (Miami Herald) - All the way to Curac¸ao, I feared the worst. My long-planned trip to this Dutch-flavored Caribbean island came in late September last year -- the height of hurricane season.

OFF-PEAK ISLAND LOVIN (The Daily Tribune) - Boracay is summer’s poster island: long stretch of shimmering shore, cerulean waters and fierce sun that licks bodies into warm, luscious tan. We know, or have heard, how the island becomes so crowded during the peak season you can’t drop a needle on it.

Christmas Island detention 'not ideal' (Sydney Morning Herald) - Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone says switching offshore processing of asylum-seekers from Christmas Island to Nauru would not be an appropriate solution to problems of drawn-out appeals.

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.

Carcieri says he's fighting to make Rhode Island better (Boston Globe) - Gov. Don Carcieri paints himself as a white knight jousting with unions, special interest groups and the Democratic-led General Assembly on behalf of the people of Rhode Island.