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Rossy Wins in Long Island! (Fightnews.com) - On a rainy Friday night, a crowd of 870 filled the Huntington Hilton in Melville, Long Island, to cheer and support Long Island’s own Derrick Rossy.

Verizon Expands FiOS TV Service to More Long Island Communities (SYS-CON Media) - Verizon today began offering its FiOS TV service to more Long Island consumers, offering a true choice for subscription television and on-demand programming via the company's all-digital, fiber-optic network. Verizon is the first company to offer such a communications network, connecting homes and businesses directly to fiber optics on a widespread scale.

Verizon Expands FiOS TV Service to More Long Island Communities (Broadcast Newsroom) - HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon today began offering its FiOS TV service to more Long Island consumers, offering a true choice for subscription television and on-demand programming via the company's all-digital, fiber-optic network.

Victims of Colorado plane crash were Long Island residents (Newsday) - CRAIG, Colo. (AP) _ A coroner has identified two men killed in a small plane crash near the Wyoming border as Long Island residents.

Long Island Air Museum In Peril (The Aero-News Network) - Cradle (...of Aviation Museum) May Fall Five months after a last-ditch bailout plan was approved by Nassua County, it appears the Long Island-based Cradle of Aviation Museum is undergoing the museum equivalent of an in-flight emergency... and may plummet out of control in less than two months.

Ben Riley's Monk Legacy Septet Performs at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, September 20 at Kumble Theater Free (All About Jazz) - Brooklyn, N.Y. - An ensemble dedicated to carrying on the legacy of jazz great Thelonious Monk, Ben Riley's Monk Legacy Septet will perform at the Kumble Theatre for the Performing Arts at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus.

Rhode Island Senate: Whitehouse (D) 51%; Chafee (R) 43% (Rasmussen Reports via Yahoo! News) - The GOP establishment forcefully backed Republican Lincoln Chafee in the primary over a more conservative and arguably less-electable Republican. But, perhaps damaged by having to struggle so long for the nomination, it is not clear how electable Senator Chafee remains. The incumbent now lags his Democratic challenger 43% to 51%.

Fire Island, New York’s Leading Online Travel Guide Celebrates It's 10th Anniversary With A Major Redesign (PR Web) - FireIsland.com, introduces a new site design and expanded content. The redesign provides Fire Island travelers with information and news they need when visiting this Long Island, New York vacation spot. The site also gives business owners, realtors, and home owners the most targeted online platform to place ads and reach this desirable audience. It now offers more news, real estate listing,

Tonight: Boxing on Long Island! (Fightnews.com) - For the second time this year, boxing will return to Long Island, as in attempt to make the sweet science the hot commodity it once was in the area, promoter Sal Musumeci, President/CEO of Final Forum Promotions presents "Home Cookin' at the Hilton" on September 15 at the Huntington Hilton.

Wreckage displayed in Long Island DWI murder trial (WABC-TV New York) - The twisted wreckage of a black Lincoln stretch limousine, its entire front end obliterated, was put on display Friday outside a Long Island courthouse where a man is on trial for murder in an alleged drunken driving accident that killed two people.