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Showdown on Long Island (CNET) - Blog: Verizon Communications and Cablevision are duking it out on Long Island, NY. According to the Wall Street Journal...

A weekly look at Long Island college athletics (New York Newsday) - Ed Manetta, the former athletic director at St. John's, was named NYCAC commissioner this summer. The Division II conference includes Long Island schools Adelphi, Dowling, C.W. Post, Molloy and NYIT among its 11 members.

Poll: State government ranks high on Island (Newsday.com) - Albany has an image problem upstate, but not on Long Island.

Manhunt On Long Island For Robbery Suspects (CBS 2 New York) - The search is on for several armed suspects on Long Island. Police said that the car they were in matched the description of a car connected to a pattern of bank robberies.

Mediterranean fare finds a home on James Island (Charleston City Paper) - Angelfish was a James Island staple for a long time before becoming Bistro V. The owners of downtown's Fulton Five remodeled and gave the bistro concept a chance, but have now shifted gears with Twizt in the same space.

Long Island 61, San Francisco 46 (Grand Forks Herald) - MINNEAPOLIS - Amber Wirth scored 17 points and Long Island University pulled away to beat San Francisco 61-46 Sunday in the consolation game of the Subway Classic.

The Queen returns to her island of happiness (Telegraph.co.uk) - The Queen returned to Malta yesterday, the island where she spent carefree days as a Royal Navy wife before her accession.

Vienna Woods, via Long Island (New York Times) - No Long Island white equals Macari's 2005 Early Wine as a match for Thanksgiving turkey. The French would call it a nouveau.

LI firm wins Army contract (Newsday) - Dayton T. Brown, one of Long Island's oldest defense contractors, said yesterday it had won a $46.5 million Army contract - one of the largest in its history - to test parts for helicopters used in Iraq and other combat areas.

The house is gone, the memories remain (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - I took the train across Pennsylvania alone, coming back from Long Island where my two sisters, brother and I got together in our childhood home, where Mom still lives, to pack up memories.