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Long Beach Island run set for Oct. 8 (Asbury Park Press) - BRANT BEACH: The 34th annual Long Beach Island Commemorative 18-Mile Run will take place at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 8.

Motorcyclist Killed In Crash On Long Island (WNBC) - CORAM, N.Y. -- A motorcyclist has been killed in a collision with a car on Long Island, police said. Suffolk County police said Gregory Staab, 49, of Middle Island, was driving west on Route 25 in Coram when his motorcycle collided with a car.

Jet boat driver from Long Island strikes rocks, hurts head (WSTM-TV NBC 3) - STODDARD, N.H. A jet boat driver from Long Island suffered head injuries after striking some rocks in a lake and getting thrown from the boat.

Wake Island Evacuees Arrive On Oahu (KITV TheHawaiiChannel.com via Yahoo! News) - Nearly 200 evacuees from Wake Island landed at Hickam Air Force Base Monday afternoon as Typhoon Ioke approached the Air Force outpost.

Middle Island Motorcyclist Killed in Crash (1010 WINS New York) - A 49-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a collision with a car on Long Island.

Ioke Threatens; Wake Island Evacuates (KITV TheHawaiiChannel.com via Yahoo! News) - A Category 4 storm is heading toward Wake Island in the western Pacific Ocean.

Concert Review: Bob Dylan in Pawtucket, Rhode Island - We Wait (Aug. 24, 2006) (Blogcritics.org) - We are sixth or so in line in front the imposing stadium security gate at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. It is August 24, 2006 and it is early hours yet – only 2:30 – which leaves us with three hours before we can even enter the stadium where we will see Bob Dylan. If you count the warm-up acts as part of our wait, we have about six or so hours of waiting time before Bob Dylan comes

Summer Brings Unwelcome New England Visitors ; A Poisonous Jellyfish Washes Up on Cousins Island in the Wake of Shark (RedNova) - By JOSIE HUANG Staff Writer The gelatinous blob, a foot-and-a-half wide and ribboned in royal red and inky blue, stopped Cynthia Chamberlain cold. In nearly 40 years of living on Cousins Island, she had never seen anything like it. "I took a stick and lifted it," Chamberlain said.

Long Island Sportsman Association to hold Vegas night September 1 (Babylon Beacon) - The Long Island Sportsman Association is sponsoring a Vegas night, Friday, September 1 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars, 588 Long Island Ave., Deer Park. The doors open at 7 p.m. There will be Roulette, Blackjack, Craps and Beat the Dealer. Food and drink will be available. For more information call

Nigeria: Traditional Authority Has Neglected Ilado Too Long (AllAfrica.com) - LAST week, word filtered in that so soon after a pipeline fire claimed nearly 1,200 lives at Ilado, an island off the waterline of Lagos metropolis, the nefarious business of pipeline vandalization and fuel scooping had resumed.