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Long Island Man Is Accused of Beating Stepson (FOX 5 New York) - A Long Island community college staffer has pleaded not guilty to assault after being accused of beating his 11-year-old stepson with a belt and locking his wife in a basement. Alon M. Holliday's bail was set at $50,000 Monday in Nassau County District Court. It could not immediately be determined Monday evening whether he had posted bail.

Long Island Man Is Accused of Beating Stepson (FOX 5 New York) - A Long Island community college staffer has pleaded not guilty to assault after being accused of beating his 11-year-old stepson with a belt and locking his wife in a basement.

5 Injured In Long Island Boat Accident (WNBC) - Five people are recovering from a boat collision in the waters off Long Island.

Boat Collision Off Long Island Injures 5 (WCBS-TV New York) - Five people are recovering from a boat collision in the waters off Long Island. Police in Nassau County say a 29-foot motorboat hit a 22-footer in Merrick on Saturday afternoon.

Seniors bond with pets at Grandell Rehab Center in Long Beach (New York Daily News) - A Long Island-based animal owner is finding a new way to bring comfort to nursing home residents. Andre Ricaud uses his collection of exotic animals - boa constrictors, chinchillas, tortoises, lemurs and more - as therapy pets.

Boats Collide Off Long Island (FOX 5 New York) - Five people were hurt after two boats collided Saturday off Long Island. The crash happened shortly after 2 p.m, in the waters off Merrick, N.Y. One person was hospitalized with a back injury; the others suffered cuts and bruises.

Long Island Sound Cleanup Efforts Get Boost (Hartford Courant) - Efforts to clean up Long Island Sound and Jamaica Bay got a $3.3 million boost this week, thanks in part to two settlements in pollution cases.

Fire transforms Angel Island's landscape (San Francisco Chronicle) - The sun was rising Tuesday morning on a radically changed Angel Island, where more than half the landscape has been blackened by a wildfire that erupted near a campground and the other half is closed to the public for the foreseeable future. An all-out attack...

ONSTAGE & BACKSTAGE: Wright On (and Off) Fire Island (Playbill) - I'm back from beautiful Fire Island.

Angel Island blaze 75 percent contained; historic buildings safe (San Francisco Chronicle) - Hundreds of firefighters are making solid headway in their efforts to stamp out a wildfire that has ravaged more than half of Angel Island since Sunday night, using ground crews and water-dropping helicopters to ward the flames away from more than 100...