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A Fast Long Island Evacuation? Impossible - New York Times (New York Times) - A Fast Long Island Evacuation? If a huge natural or man-made disaster ever struck Long Island, there would be several local, state and federal plans in place to help people, according to officials in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Evacuating the island, however, is not one of them.

BIG CONVENTION TOMORROW IN LONG ISLAND, KENTA KOBASHI MAKES AMERICAN DEBUT, CLASSIC CHAMPIONSHIP BELT ON EBAY AND MORE (PWinsider) - Matt "Spike Dudley" Hyson has been added to the first-ever KandSWrestlefest on 9/24 at the Huntington Hilton in Long Island, New York. Scheduled as official guests of the convention are the former Dudley Boyz, Terry Funk, Jerry Lawler, Tony Atlas, Missy Hyatt, Nikita Koloff, Magnum TA, Larry Zbyszko, The Midnight Express, and Dustin Rhodes.

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.

GO & DO: The band's got the cure for the island blues (San Jose Mercury News) - Everybody is welcome to Yerba Buena's island, as long as they're willing to dance. It's a musical refuge from the tightly patrolled borders of commercial genres, an imaginary nation united by a brand new global groove. There are wild and elegant gypsies, mischievous Indian MC's, irresistible Cuban rhythms, smooth talking sugar daddies and the multilingual ladies who love 'em, boogalooing

Backchecking: Treasure Island (TSN) - There's an interesting mix on Long Island, the Devils look like they'll be shedding some salary and the Oilers may have found a rookie power-play specialist. All this, Junior Report and the best in quotes, Chirping, in this week's edition of TSN.ca's Backchecking.

Merlot Makers Form Alliance (New York Times) - COMPLETING a process begun in the summer of 2004, five producers have formed an organization to promote Long Island merlot, the red that is considered the region's flagship wine.

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.

Indie short details the lives of Long Island gamers (Joystiq) - You may already know where this is going… What do you get when you take two teenage brothers and leave them alone in a house? Well, you might call it a party. Duncan Skiles’ short has all the right ingredients: a club-hopping single mom, 8 dudes— er , “dorks”—& 1 chick, a KFC/Taco Bell hybrid joint, Smash Bros. , and a giant Jew-fro. Sweet! [Thanks, Duncan ] Read | Permalink |

When LI was in eye of storm (Newsday) - As Hurricane Rita bore down on the Gulf Coast, some Long Island residents remembered feeling Mother Nature's wrath 20 years ago. Gloria was its name, and 30,000 people were evacuated from low-lying Nassau and Suffolk areas in anticipation.