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Long Island Car Thieves Pistol-Whip Passenger (1010 WINS New York) - Police are looking for a group of men who stole a car on Long Island after pistol-whipping a passenger.

600-Pound Man Rescued From Long Island Home (WCBS-TV New York) - A man who weighs an estimated 600 pounds has been rescued from his Long Island home after falling and struggling alone for two days to telephone for help. Authorities say they had to use saws to dismantle one wall of David Schock's modular home in Calverton to extract him because the 57-year-old was too large to be removed through the front door.

Firefighters hoist 600-pound man from his Long Island home (The Journal News) - CALVERTON, N.Y. (AP) - A man who weighs an estimated 600 pounds has been rescued from his Long Island home after falling and struggling alone for two days to telephone for help.

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.

Persian Gulf island is limbo for OFWs (Philippine Daily Inquirer) - ABU DHABI—Exhausted from long days of waiting and the anxiety of losing his job, Giovanni Garcia, 28, wept with joy when his employment papers finally rolled out of a fax machine in a hotel in Kish Island, Iran, last Tuesday.

Return of Heixiazi Island marks end of border dispute (China Economic Net) - China and Russia Tuesday unveiled boundary markers for the eastern section of their border at a ceremony held on Heixiazi Island - ending a decades-long dispute between the two countries.

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.

Disputed tours coming to island where JFK Jr. wed (CNN) - CUMBERLAND ISLAND, Georgia (AP) -- John Fry mashes the brakes and curses under his breath as a pack of wild hogs scurries across the narrow dirt road, where spiky palmetto fronds claw at both sides of his National Park Service pickup truck.