More Long Island

• Mom molestation case handed to jury

• AAA making sure seniors and their cars are a good fit

• Clinton: Use bailout funds for small business, students

• Cuomo: nursing home workers mistreated patient

• 'Double-dipper' pension bill to Gov.

• Yom Kippur begins Wednesday

• FBI renews search of suspected mob burial ground

• Hundreds remember 'cop's cop' in Islip

• Cops: Clerk shops with customer's card

• Cops: Suspect in string of thefts surrenders

Crime & Courts

• Cops: Suspected burglar caught in bedroom

• LI man tied to Israeli corruption probe denies assault

• Police seek woman who stole wallet

• Woman hurt in purse-snatching

• Paroled killer convicted in Coram double-murder trial

Transportation

• Crash closes northbound lanes of BQE

• LIRR to outline reform measures

• Man charged with drunken driving, hit-and-run

• YOUR COMMUNITY WATCHDOG: Loop Parkway merge still needs some work

• Manorhaven teen charged in fatal crash

Schools

• W. Islip school district never got vending machine money

• EdLI: Newsday's education blog

• Air conditioner problem prompts school evacuation

• State eyes rescue for Wyandanch schools

• Harborfields school scrubbed after 2 infections

Politics

• At debate McCain, Obama spar over economy

• McCain to shake it up at Tuesday's debate

• 5 things Obama, McCain must do to win Tuesday's debate

• Gov. Paterson says he'll run in 2010

• Economy pushes energy issues to back burner

Suffolk

• Meningitis case at Lindenhurst school

• Sources: FBI finds human remains

• Driver hits Suffolk sheriff's cruiser on LIE

• $18M deal struck for Dick Cavett's Montauk property

• Joye Brown: No need to replay this board meeting

Nassau

• New Roosevelt school named after pioneer educator

• Nassau has concerns over sales tax revenue

• Lawyer: Hempstead sanitation supervisor preyed on women

• AAA focuses on safety of senior drivers

• Witness upends gang convictions