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Meetings held on dredging Long Island Sound (WNPR Connecticut Public Radio) - HARTORD, CT (2007-11-29) The US Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers are holding a series of public meetings this week in New York and Connecticut to discuss plans to dredge Long Island Sound.

Seventy Haitians apprehended in Long Island (The Nassau Guardian) - As most Family Islanders are familiar with the faces of those who live among them, residents of Long Island soon discovered that a Haitian vessel with 86 immigrants on board had run aground in the settlement of Buckley's early Wednesday morning when the immigrants, hoping to evade law enforcement authorities, were spotted by locals.

TWO ARRESTED IN LONG ISLAND ROBBERY (New York Post) - Two Long Island Grinches were nabbed yesterday trying to rob the spirit of Christmas -- and jewelry and cash -- from a 72-year-old man who was decorating the outside of his home for the holiday, police said. But the feisty senior citizen, whose name...

Long Island Crisis Center to offer training (Massapequa Post) - Long Island Crisis Center (LICC), the oldest 24-hour, seven-day-week crisis intervention and suicide prevention hotline, is looking for volunteers for its upcoming Volunteer Counselor Assistant Training Program. Those interested in volunteering must first call 826-0244 to schedule an interview.

Indonesian witness acknowledges letters, lies in Long Island's forced labor trial (The Jakarta Post) - CENTRAL ISLIP, New York (AP): An Indonesian housekeeper who accused a millionaire couple from Long Island of enslaving her and another woman has admitted writing malevolent letters about the wife.

Long Island sounds good to Sens (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News) - A trip to Long Island could be just what the Ottawa Senators need.

More doubt that paintings discovered on Long Island are by Jackson Pollock (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News) - NEW YORK - A forensic scientist is casting further doubt on claims a cache of paintings found recently was the work of Jackson Pollock.

Giuliani dismisses report about expenses (USA Today) - Rudy Giuliani dismissed a report Wednesday that he expensed the cost of his security detail to obscure city offices for trips to a Long Island resort as the then-mayor began an extramarital affair with current wife Judith Nathan.

Police arrest Long Island man in motel break-in (The Post-Star) - QUEENSBURY -- A Long Island man who is wanted by police in Connecticut on a felony burglary charge was arrested at a Queensbury motel on Sunday after he went into a room he did not have permission to enter, and police are looking into whether he is responsible for a spate of unsolved break-ins in the region, officials said.

Kelly Remembers Kanyes Mum At Long Island Show (ContactMusic) - R. KELLY paid his respects to KANYE WEST's late mother onstage at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, New York when he led a moment of silence. The r