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2 Found Dead Inside Long Island Garage (WCBS-TV New York) - Two people have been found dead inside the garage of a Long Island home where a vehicle was running. Six other residents of the Bay Shore home were treated and released at a nearby hospital.

Long Island Man Accused of Stabbing Pit Bull (FOX 5 New York) - A Long Island man is accused of felony animal cruelty after police say he fatally stabbed his family's pit bull.

New lobbying firm to focus on Long Island (Long Island Business News) - Fearing that New York City-based leadership in the state Legislature will ignore Long Island altogether, a new lobbying group has emerged to make sure local voices are heard. On Wednesday, Tom Garry, a partner with the Garden City law firm Jaspan Schlessinger, will officially launch Shelter Rock Strategies along with election law attorney Henry Berger and [...]

Christian Wölffer, a Long Island Vintner, Is Dead at 70 (New York Times) - Mr. Wölffer was the founder of Wölffer Estate Vineyard, a highly regarded boutique winery on Long Island.

Area girls basketball: Kenyon-Wanamingo 48, Pine Island 40 (Red Wing Republican Eagle) - The Knights had a 16-point lead for long stretches and only saw the Panthers cut into their lead late in the game. Pine Island's reserves cut the lead to single digits before the final horn sounded. Advertisement: MOMENTS 15% Off Cat Studio Hand-Embroidered State Pillows at Moments on Main

As ESL students lag behind, Rhode Island cities look to fine-tune instruction (The Providence Journal) - PROVIDENCE — In spite of all the rhetoric about the surge of illegal immigrants, the number of students who speak little or no English has decreased in Rhode Island over the past five years.

Reed bobblehead to raise money for City Island sports hall (The Patriot-News) - If a sports hall of fame is built on Harrisburg's City Island, the most valuable player might be Mayor Stephen R. Reed, long a supporter of the controversial eight-year-old proposal.

The Long Island Chapter of the Appraisal Institute Presents...'The State of the Long Island Real Estate Market - An ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - The federal government is printing money for financial institutions and bailing out AIG, GMAC, the Wall Street giants and, now, the real estate industry is joining the crowd asking for assistance as well after making tremendous profits over the last five years or so.

Medic charged in pit bull stabbing (Boston Herald) - MIDDLE ISLAND, N.Y. - A Long Island ambulance driver was charged with aggravated animal cruelty after cops said he fatally stabbed his family's pit bull. Police say...

Updated 1/6: Island Lake well still drawing controversy (Wauconda Courier) - Island Lake's well saga in the Covered Bridge Farm subdivision continued as the village recently learned the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency denied its permit to convert the test well to a community well.