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Officials Strike Deal To Protect Sites Along Long Island Sound (Hartford Courant) - Hammonasset Beach in Madison, Faulkner's Island in Guilford and the Lower Connecticut River are among 33 environmentally sensitive areas on Long Island Sound that will get special attention, thanks to an agreement reached last week among the region's top environmental officials.

Huge fire on Long Island (WABC-TV New York) - It is still a mystery what sparked a huge fire on Long Island that just about swallowed up a commercial building.

2 Robbery Suspects Caught in Long Island Manhunt; 2 Still Sought (WCBS 880 New York) - Police caught two suspects wanted in connection with a lengthy string of armed robberies in Queens and Long Island after a manhunt Friday that forced the cordoning off of a Valley Stream neighborhood and school lockdowns. But two other suspects still remain at large.

Iran island defies nation's conservatism (AP via Yahoo! News) - This coral-rimmed vacation island could pass for Iran's Key West — a place where the sexes mix and the music flows, and where women let slip their head scarves and frolic with their husbands on the gleaming sands.

Anxiety Island (The State) - As the second season of ABC’s hit “Lost” ended last spring, it left fans of the drama about plane-crash survivors on a mysterious, deserted island with the usual batch of questions:

Long Island ranks among most hurricane vulnerable areas (Newsday) - While New Orleans is still considered the most vulnerable area in the nation if a hurricane should hit, Long Island is not immune to the wrath of a major storm.

Boy stabbed at girl's 15th birthday party on Long Island (NorthJersey.com) - HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - A 17-year-old boy was stabbed in the chest at a girl's birthday party in a church-owned building after two groups of party crashers started fighting, police said.

Last South Island contestant leaves Idol (Scoop.co.nz) - In tonight’s elimination NZ IDOL results show (at 8pm on TV2), the final South Island contestant Kali Kopae (21 years from Christchurch) was the sixth person to be eliminated from the NZ IDOL Top 10.

Duke lacrosse to play exhibition on LI (Newsday) - The much publicized and criticized lacrosse team still has the gigantic cloud of a trail looming. As the Duke lacrosse team comes to Long Island this week, the criminal probe that cut short the team's season last March is wending its way slowly through North Carolina state courts.

Deadly car accident on Long Island (WABC-TV New York) - Another deadly car accident and it appears the weather played a factor.