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Owner finds couple renting his vacant NY home; man arrested for posing as real estate agent
NEW YORK (AP) _ A Long Island, N.Y., family thought they got a good deal when they found a rental house for $1,000 a month — until the owner showed up and asked what they were doing there. Nassau County police arrested Gregory Garvin on Wednesday...Tags: Condos and Houses, Rentals, Police, Roosevelt, Police Arrests
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Gas prices drop under $3.50
john.valenti@newsday.comThe average price for a gallon of gas on Long Island slipped under $3.50 Friday -- the first time in nearly six months. The last time gas was selling for less than $3.50 in Nassau and Suffolk was April 16, according to the AAA Daily Fuel Gauge. Then,...Tags: Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Petroleum Industry, Sales
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The three faces of Eva Peron
steve.parks@newsday.comWhat's up with the three Evitas? Playing the role of Eva Perón in three productions of the 1978 Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical on Long Island this fall are Christina D'Orta, Jen Hope and Jessica Cohen. "We chose 'Evita' because we felt it hadn't...Tags: Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Fast chat: Jonathan Demme
Special to NewsdayJonathan Demme has long had one of the most interesting careers in the film business. An Oscar-winning director ("The Silence of the Lambs"), the 64-year-old Demme has also enjoyed success as a concert filmmaker ("Stop Making Sense"), documentarian ("...Tags: Anne Hathaway, Celebrity, Movies, Manhattan (New York City), Jimmy Carter
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Lawmakers, rail board address LIRR disability reforms
alfonso.castillo@newsday.comFederal lawmakers from New York met with members of the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board Friday and hammered out a "consensus" for several reforms in the embattled agency, including possibly "re-evaluating" the legitimacy of Long Island Rail Road retirees...Tags: Retirement, Manhattan (New York City), Wages and Pensions, Michael Schwartz, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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Running for their lives
Special to NewsdayIn the presidential election year of 1984, age was an issue, as it is now. That year, the age in question was President Ronald Reagan's. He was 73 -- too old, some said, to be president. During a televised debate with Democratic opponent Walter Mondale,...Tags: Therapies, Population and Census, Furniture, Glen Cove, Manhattan (New York City)
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Audiovox shows loss and cuts workforce
james.bernstein@newsday.comBlaming a "deteriorating global economy," Audiovox Corp., a supplier of consumer electronics systems, said it swung to a loss in its fiscal second quarter, which ended Aug. 31, and that it has reduced its workforce by about 8 percent. The Hauppauge-based...Tags: Electronics, Economic Indicator, Consumers, Audiovox Corp., Consumer Electronics Industry
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Shellfishing on Long Island bay to reopen
Long Island's Hempstead Bay will reopen to shellfish harvesting after being off limits for more than a decade. State environmental officials say that improved water quality is the reason that clammers and baymen will be allowed to harvest the lower half...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution, Hempstead
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WALL STREET TURMOIL: WHAT A DIFFERENCE
The Dow Jones industrial average has plummeted 39 percent since setting an all-time high on Oct. 9, 2007. Here's how Long Island's 10 biggest companies in terms of stock market value have fared over that time. COMPANY TICKER CHANGE SINCE OCT. 9, 2007...Tags: New York Community Bancorp Inc., MSC Industrial Direct, Kimco Realty, Stock Activities, Stocks
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Schumer dubious of doctors' work in LIRR cases
Sen. Charles Schumer says the high number of Long Island Rail Road employees collecting disability payments may be due to dishonest doctors. Schumer and Long Island Rep. Tim Bishop on Friday met privately in New York with members of the Railroad...Tags: Employees, Tim Bishop, New York, Long Island Rail Road
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SHORT TAKES
Putting off the ritz Our legislators in Albany are always fighting the misperception that Long Island is a wealthy suburb that gets more than its share of state aid. So Forbes' list of posh ZIP codes, which includes 10 from Nassau and Suffolk, isn't...Tags: Gold Coast
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Jazz musician Alfred Gallodoro dies in NY
Jazz musician Alfred J. Gallodoro, who performed on the saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet, has died in upstate New York. Gallodoro's grandson Kevin Wood says the musician died at his home in Oneonta on Saturday. He was 95. Wood says Gallodoro's...Tags: Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein, Music Industry, Leopold Stokowski, New York
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