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ANGER: Taxes To Rise Across Long Island (WCBS-TV New York) - It's the last thing homeowners want to hear these days. Almost every Long Island town plans to raise its taxes come January. And that's not all. The soft economy is having a crushing effect on their ability to collect revenue.

Beloved Long Island Pastor Faces Deportation (WCBS-TV New York) - Time is running out for a Lutheran minister in this country on a worker's visa. He's facing the possibility of being sent back to Germany. His Long Island church is taking steps to keep him right here. Reverend Haiko Behrens, pastor of Ascension Lutheran Church in Franklin Square, is worried that he could be deported.

Show Horses Found Starved On Long Island (WCBS-TV New York) - A Long Island man is facing animal cruelty charges. Five severely malnourished and sick horses were removed from a property in Central Islip on Monday. And as CBS 2 HD found out, the rescue came just in the nick of time.

FBI reportedly searching for remains of Staten Island mobster in L.I. (Staten Island Advance) - William Cutolo was last seen near Shore Road and 92nd Street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on May 26, 1999. The FBI is searching for the remains of a slain Staten Island mobster in an industrial park in Long Island, according...

Alert the Pup-parazzi and Roll Out the Red Carpet for Camp Bow Wow® Long Island City's Grand Opening and Adoption Event (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) - Camp Bow Wow® Long Island City Celebrates its Grand Opening in New York. Join in on the excitement and set up a free interview for your dog today!

Long Island Fiber Exchange acquires Exobit Networks (Lightwave) - September 29, 2008 -- Long Island Fiber Exchange Inc. (LIFE), a regional provider of fiber-optic bandwidth and services for education, government, and business, says that they have acquired Exobit Networks, Inc., a regional Internet and network services provider.

Long Island Sound Water Quality Upgrades Funded (Environment News Service) - , September 29, 2008 (ENS) - Grants for improving water quality in Long Island Sound were announced Friday at a gathering of federal and state environmental officials in Westchester County near the shore.

Florida has long been feeling housing pains (USA Today) - Long before the bailout debate, property values and mortgage payments threatened many Floridians.

Village in Long Island's Hamptons embroiled in battle over religious symbol for Orthodox Jews (Newsday) - WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. (AP) _ They are largely invisible, sometimes as simple as a small, plastic marker affixed to a utility pole. There's one around the White House and one in Manhattan that sprawls from the East River to the Hudson.

FBI Finds Possible Mass Grave on Long Island (FOX 5 New York) - The feds descended on a Farmingdale, N.Y., industrial park on Wednesday, searching for signs of bodies at what could be a graveyard for mob victims. Fox 5's Rob Malcolm reports.