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National franchises targeting Long Island (Newsday) - Long Island businesses will face more competition from franchises as some familiar names move to ramp up their numbers soon and new chains plan to open first locations here beginning next month.

New Life for a Dead Market in Long Island (RedNova) - By Dawn Wotapka Hardesty Long Island's industrial market is getting a reprieve. For several years, developers raced to transform boxy, cavernous buildings - remnants of yesteryear's manufacturing era - into office space, dramatically reducing the industrial supply.

For Investors, a Less Insular Island (New York Times) - The Long Island commercial real estate market scene now has new faces, as outside investors are increasingly buying up office buildings.

Young pilot hoping to solo around the world stops on Long Island (Sun-Sentinel) - LONG ISLAND, N.Y. -- Barrington Irving, a Jamaican-born pilot, traveled from Cleveland to Long Island yesterday, the second stop of a journey that would make him the youngest pilot and the first black to fly solo around the world.

Police: Two Drunk Drivers Crash Head-On In Long Island (WNBC) - Two Long Island drivers have been arrested after crashing into each other and injuring five people.

Sprint Nextel 'Powers Up' Wireless Coverage, Capacity to Its Networks on Long Island (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - LONG ISLAND, N.Y.----Sprint Nextel announced today it added 37 wireless cell sites to its Nationwide Sprint PCS Network and Nextel National Network on Long Island with a total investment of $47 million in 2006.

Invasive beetle found in Staten Island (AP via Yahoo! News) - An invasive type of beetle has been found for the first time on Staten Island, where it could kill hardwood trees and threaten the local ecosystem, parks officials said Tuesday.

Va. Taxes Nothing Compared to Long Island (WTOP Radio Network) - Many Northern Virginia residents believe that they're taxes are too high, and their quality of life is getting worse, but a new study shows that Long Island residents are even more unsatisfied.

Who beat a Long Island mother to death? (WABC-TV New York) - Police in Suffolk County say the victim's estranged husband was found unconscious in a car near the murder scene.

4 island police officers face charges (AP via Yahoo! News) - Four police officers in a resort town on Fire Island were ordered to surrender Tuesday to face criminal charges, one week after five fired colleagues sued for wrongful dismissal by a department they said was run "like a fraternity house."