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Show Horses Found Starved On Long Island (WCBS-TV New York) - A Long Island man is facing animal cruelty charges. Five severely malnourished and sick horses were removed from a property in Central Islip on Monday. And as CBS 2 HD found out, the rescue came just in the nick of time.

Long Island Fiber Exchange acquires Exobit Networks (Lightwave) - September 29, 2008 -- Long Island Fiber Exchange Inc. (LIFE), a regional provider of fiber-optic bandwidth and services for education, government, and business, says that they have acquired Exobit Networks, Inc., a regional Internet and network services provider.

Long Island Sound Water Quality Upgrades Funded (Environment News Service) - , September 29, 2008 (ENS) - Grants for improving water quality in Long Island Sound were announced Friday at a gathering of federal and state environmental officials in Westchester County near the shore.

Gang Assult Suspected in Long Island Bar Stabbing (FOX 5 New York) - Four young men are charged with gang assault in the stabbing death of a 21-year-old outside a Long Island bar. The last of the four was arrested Saturday night.

Suspected Church Robber Arrested On Staten Island (WCBS-TV New York) - Police have made an arrest in a string of Staten Island church burglaries. In some cases, the suspect was able to "case" his alleged targets by attending AA meetings. When you come out of church, you hope to feel the hand of god, not the long arm of the law. Yet, that's how it was for 42-year-old Lonnie Faulk, said to be homeless. He was arrested Saturday morning after he crawled out a window of ...

Younger residents continue to head off Island (Long Island Business News) - Long Island's brain drain is getting worse. According to statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau, the region continues to have the highest rate of decline of residents 25-to-44 years of age in the state.

Plum Island neighbors spurn sophisticated new lab (The Block Island Times) - Just over the western horizon, almost within view from Beacon Hill, is Plum Island, off the end of the North Fork of Long Island. It’s the home of the federal Animal Disease Center where scientists work secretively to develop defenses against diseases that could be brought from abroad to threaten our large domestic animals.

Sea foam: 'Rawleigh Man' Tommie Peeples was island icon (Island Packet) - Thanks to Bennie Peeples of Hilton Head Island for sharing an essay about his father, the late Tommie Peeples, who ran sales routes on the island long before the first bridge opened in 1956.

Police Helicopter Rescues Stranded Long Island Teens (FOX 5 New York) - Police on western Long Island used a helicopter to rescue three teenagers whose boat had gotten stuck in a marsh at low tide. The boys were out fishing Saturday in a 14-foot motorboat when they became stranded in the tidal marshes at the edge of Woodsburgh Channel.

Ex-NYPD captain slapped with conflict-of-interest rap (New York Daily News) - A former NYPD captain was slapped with a $5,000 fine for having six underlings remodel his Long Island home, the city Conflicts of Interest Board announced Monday.