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Long Island Meningitis Alert (FOX 5 New York) - Five students on Long Island were recently diagnosed with viral meningitis in separate cases. For the full story, watch the video report from Fox 5's Andrea Day.

'Going Green Long Island' on Ch. 21 (Newsday) - THE SHOW "Going Green Long Island"

Paterson Seeks Investigation Into Long Island Rail Road Disability Benefits (New York Times) - Gov. David A. Paterson is giving New York?s attorney general broad powers to investigate how Long Island Rail Road employees may have manipulated disability and pension benefits.

Long Island DWI Crash (FOX 5 New York) - A Huntington, N.Y., woman is accused of crashing her minivan with four children inside. The kids got out and got help; the woman is now charged with DWI. Fox 5's Mike Sheehan got the story from Long Island.

New York Probes Long Island Rail Road Disability Benefits (Insurance Journal) - New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said he has issued subpoenas as part of "an aggressive and expeditious" probe into reports of unusually high levels of disability benefits paid to Long Isl

Janet Jackson parts ways with Island Def Jam (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - After just 14 months on Island Def Jam, Janet Jackson announced Monday (September 22) her departure from the label. According to Jackson's publicist, the label agreed to dissolve its relationship with the artist at her request.

All News... Prisoners spend too long in cells (The Kent Messenger) - Inmates spend too long in their cells with not enough “purposeful activity” according to a report on one of the Island’s prisons. Chief inspector of prisons Anne Owers visited Swaleside Prison earlier this year and a report of her findings was published this week.

Agents Raid Office in Railroad Disability Inquiry (New York Times) - Federal agents raided the Long Island office of the federal Railroad Retirement Board amid an intensifying investigation into the legitimacy of thousands of disability payments.

LIPA Considers Wind Farm 10 Miles From Queens Shore (New York Times) - A year after its plan to build a wind farm off Jones Beach fell through, the Long Island Power Authority is studying the economic feasibility of a wind farm 10 miles off the south shore of Queens.

Power restored at most island substations (Houston Chronicle) - Four of six substations operated by CenterPoint Energy in Galveston have been restored, but company officials warn that it will be a long while before the entire island is re-electrified.