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Math scores rise on Long Island, statewide (Newsday.com) - Fourth-graders have scored solid gains on the state's latest math test, both on Long Island and statewide, extending a seven-year trend. In Nassau County, the number of fourth-graders passing rose to 95.4 percent last spring, from 93.8 percent the year before.

Long Island woman pleads guilty for allowing daughter, 13, to have sex (Newsday.com) - WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) _ A Long Island woman has pleaded guilty to second-degree rape for providing the hotel room and the liquor so her 13-year-old daughter and a 14-year-old friend could have sex with two young men they had just met.

Son pleads innocent to murder charges in Long Island doctor's death (Newsday.com) - NEW YORK -- A Westchester County man was ordered held without bail after pleading not guilty Wednesday to murder and other charges in the brutal beating of his father, an emergency room surgeon at the Nassau University Medical Center on Long Island.

Western burrito chain looking east to Island (Newsday) - Chipotle Mexican Grill, the fast-growing chain of burrito shops, is looking for a toehold on Long Island.

Survey: Katrina shifted Dauphin Island; homes swept away (Kansas City Star) - DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. - Hurricane Katrina shifted part of Dauphin Island landward and cut a mile-wide canal across its western tip, completely destroying a long line of resort homes that faced the Gulf of Mexico, a geological survey shows.

Largest U.S. Commercial Fuel Cell System Powers Long Island Call Center and Administration Building (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - The country's largest fuel cell power plant in commercial operation was commissioned today in Long Island, N.Y. UTC Power, a division of United Technologies Corp. , provided seven PureCell 200s to the project, which generates 1.4 megawatts of primary electrical power and 6.3 million BTUs of useable heat for Verizon Communications, Inc.

Welcome to timesbeacon.com - covering LBI (Long Beach Island) and the Mainland (Times-Beacon) - Long Beach Township to join Beach Haven in feasability study; possible withdrawal from Southern Regional. LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP -- The Board of Commissioners has decided to follow Beach Haven and formally agree to move forward with a feasibility study of withdrawing from Southern Regional High School.

350-pound Long Island teen dies after collapsing at Tenn. detention facility (Newsday.com) - CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Authorities are investigating the case of a 350-pound 14-year-old Long Island girl who died at a Montgomery County juvenile detention facility Sunday night.

Welcome to timesbeacon.com - covering LBI (Long Beach Island) and the Mainland (Times-Beacon) - The two-month-long marathon that is the scholastic cross country season kicked off last Tuesday, and the Pinelands Regional High School girls got off to a flying start.

Music Is Over At Long Island Rock Club (1010wins.com) - (1010 WINS) FARMINGDALE, Long Island A popular rock club in Farmingdale, Long Island has closed unexpectedly. All concerts at The Downtown club have been cancelled, and advanced ticket sales will be refunded.