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Long Island Children Left Home Alone (FOX 5 New York) - Police say a Long Island woman left her 2-year-old and 5-year-old home alone for nearly three hours while she went to get her nails done. The mother was to be arraigned Friday on a child endangerment charge.

Demand Note Nets Crook Cash From Bank In Long Island City (Times Newsweekly) - Armed with a threatening note, a bespectacled bandit grabbed cash from a Long Island City bank last Thursday afternoon, June 4, police reported. Authorities said the crook held up the Bank of America branch located at 24-10 Jackson Ave. at around 3:55 p.m. last Thursday.

Long Island's weathered past (Honolulu Advertiser) - Rain delays are rare in the U.S. Open unless it happens to being played on Long Island. Yesterday's suspension of play at Bethpage Black because of heavy rain meant a third straight Open on Long Island to be affected at some point by the weather.

Long Beach Island ideal for surf fishing (Asbury Park Press) - The beaches of Long Beach Island possess all the qualities necessary to be a good surf fishing location, and the success of many anglers over the years attests to this fact.

Long Island Women’s 5K Run Slated for July 18 (Hicksville Illustrated News) - Applications are now available and online registration is now open for the 2009 Arrow Exterminating Company Long Island Women’s 5 Kilometer Run, and women runners and walkers of all ages and abilities are cordially invited to participate.

U.S. Open: Delays are common only on Long Island (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Rain delays are rare in the U.S. Open unless it happens to being played on Long Island.

U.S. Open notebook: Long Island Opens attract the rain (Memphis Commercial Appeal) - Rain delays are rare in the U.S. Open unless it happens to being played on Long Island. Thursday's suspension of play at Bethpage Black because of heavy rain meant a third straight Open on Long Island to be affected at some point by the weather.

Long Island police find body buried along roadside (WCAX-TV Vermont) - Associated Press - June 18, 2009 11:15 PM ET FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Police on Long Island have dug up a body buried along a roadside in Farmingville.

Is John the 2-year-old kidnapped on Long Island in 1955? (USA Today) - Is John Barnes, of Michigan, actually Stephen Damman, who was kidnapped on Long Island on Halloween in 1955? Or, is his story, as Barnes' father says, "a bunch of bull?" The truth awaits the results of DNA tests conducted by the FBI that won't be ready for up to two months. What is known is that 2-year-old Stephen was snatched from outside a food store in East Meadow on Long Island 54 years ago. ...

FBI says DNA test results show Michigan man is not boy kidnapped in Long Island, NY, in 1955 (Times & Transcript) - DNA testing disproved a Michigan man's suspicions that he was a toddler kidnapped on New York's Long Island in 1955, the FBI said Thursday, closing a chapter in a bizarre mystery that started after he began researching his roots on the Internet.