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Bingo losing steam, but still big on Long Island (Newsday) - Patricia Franzese was a bingo fanatic who resolved, suddenly, to leave the gaming hall forever. Before the last number rang out, she scooped up her talismans -- the lucky stuffed bear, the bingo-ball key chains, the photo of her 11 grandchildren -- and strode out of the hall on Broadhollow Road in Melville.

Naked Swimmer Located in Waters off Long Island (1010 WINS New York) - A naked man who went swimming in the Atlantic Ocean in the dark of night and didn't return was found unharmed Sunday morning after a U.S. Coast Guard search. Neal Mello stripped off his clothes and went in the water around 9:20 p.m. Saturday, Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Annie Berlin said.

Manhasset Girls Softball Reaches Long Island Semi-Finals (Manhasset Press) - The Manhasset 9/10 Girls Softball team reached the Long Island semi-finals of the Williamsport Little League World Series Tournament by virtue of a 7-6 win over Oceanside. The victory was the first sectional level win in the history of the Manhasset Softball program.

Island Hoping (Washington Post) - PAGO PAGO, American Samoa Ne'emia Vitale usually needs only a few minutes to walk home from football practice, following a one-lane street bordered by tin-roof huts and long trails of rotting litter. But today, he stalls. He kicks up loose gravel with his size 13 flip-flops and shoos the wild dog...

Long, skinny and beautiful (The Charlotte Observer) - Thomas Sands, 35, was born and raised in Eleuthera, the Bahamas; he is a broker/appraiser for the Cotton Bay Starwood residential vacation development. Q. There are hundreds of islands in the Bahamas archipelago. What is your island like? Eleuthera is 110 miles long by 2 miles at its widest point. The area at Glass Window Bridge is where it's thinnest, maybe 80 to 100 feet. Most of the ...

Bank robberies surge on Long Island (Newsday) - At a time when bank robberies have more than doubled across Suffolk County, three armed men who stormed a Deer Park bank two weeks ago have now been tied to similar robberies in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Knotts Island bridge safe, officials say (The Daily Advance) - Engineers say its safe for motorists to use a portion of a substandard bridge that links Knotts Island to the mainland. Meanwhile, the N.C. Department of Transportation plans to replace the old bridge.

Patter of tiny tuatara feet on Matiu/Somes island (Stuff) - An exciting discovery has proved tuatara are breeding on Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour – a baby tuatara hatched last week and a sibling may not be far behind.

Baby tuatara hatches—first for Matiu/Somes Island (Scoop.co.nz) - Proof comes in the form of a tiny baby tuatara which emerged last week from an egg found on the island. It’s the first known offspring of 54 Brothers Island tuatara transferred to the island nine years ago.

Obituary: Mary Murphy / Set age water skiing records (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Mary Murphy, a water ski enthusiast who set age and endurance records when she rode a hydrofoil water ski from Long Beach, Calif., to Catalina Island and back when she was 84, has died. She was 89.