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Long Island K-9 Service Is Maintaining Security With Law Enforcement Experienced Explosive Detection Canine Teams (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Officer James Greco, a law enforcement officer and founder of Long Island K-9 Service , is reaching out to many major airlines and providing law enforcement explosive detection canine teams to all airlines to detect the new scents of explosives that were utilized by terrorists in their recent attempt to blow up Airplanes while in Flight.

State Ed, Red Cross appeal for Long Island disaster volunteers (New York Teacher) - Hurricane season is approaching and there are not nearly enough volunteers on Long Island to staff all the possible shelters.

New Plan Before Suffolk County Could Derail Long Island Power Authority's Proposed Wind Park (RedNova) - By Jean Paul Vellotti There's a plan in the works that could blow the Long Island Power Authority's proposed wind park out of the water.

WARM UP PARTY - Thousands enjoy Long Island City music series (Queens Courier) - Each Saturday, multiple thousands of people have been making their way to the PS1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City for the annual “Warm Up” music series.

Long Island lesbian's wrongful-death suit in name of late partner dismissed (The Advocate) - A Long Island judge has dismissed the wrongful-death suit filed by the lesbian partner of a woman killed in a car accident, ruling that she has no case because the two women were not legally married.

After long absence, tourists returning to Samosir Island (The Jakarta Post) - Tourism on Samosir Island, situated in the middle of Lake Toba, North Sumatra, has picked up this year after a quiet period over the past eight years due to lack of government support in promoting the tourist area.

Jacobsen's pair of homers lifts Long Island to victory (OurSports Central) - (Central Islip, N.Y., Aug. 16, 2006) - After a crushing loss to the Barnstormers on Tuesday evening, Long Island needed someone to step up. The biggest man on the team, Bucky Jacobsen, did just that.

Joseph F. Carlino, 89, Speaker of Assembly From Long Island, Dies (New York Times) - Mr. Carlino was a leading Long Island Republican for 20 years and the speaker of the New York State Assembly from 1959 to 1964.

The other side of Long Island (Baltimore Sun) - Forget the Hamptons. Charming villages and small wineries on the North Fork are capturing tourists' hearts IF LONG ISLAND, N.Y.'S SOUTH Fork is a Grey Goose martini downed on the dance floor, the North Fork is a chilled glass of chardonnay savored on the veranda. The south is Bridgehampton's Mercedes- Benz Polo Challenge; the north is the old-fashioned merry-go-round on the Greenport harbor

Long Island Medical Briefs: August 18, 2006 (RedNova) - By Claude Solnik Farmingdale State offers efficiency training to Altana The Farmingdale State University of New York's Center for Innovation in Lean and Six Sigma is teaching executives from pharmaceuticals firm Altana Inc. how to increase efficiency.