More Long Island

• Couple: Guards roughed us up at Billy Joel concert

• MacArthur resumes normal operations after bomb threat

• 15 sickly cats found in an abandoned Bohemia house

• Suffolk sewage pipe puts Great South Bay at risk

• Heavy rains close scores of Nassau, Suffolk beaches

• Mortgage tax revenue down about 42 percent for LI

• Tankleff shares thoughts on false confessions

• DA: Wantagh sex teacher won't stay away from boy

• New flood zone maps may snag D'Amato condo project

• Long Island state senators slam MTA fare hike plan

Crime & Courts

• No bail for Sea Cliff teacher aide charged in murder

• Details emerge on Andrew Giuliani's suit against Duke

• Payoff for housing lottery not what was promised

• Westbury Laundromat owner wins suit v. N. Hempstead

• Police probing Commack computer theft seek help

Transportation

• MTA proposal includes two transit fare hikes

• Assaulting a traffic agent is now a felony

• As gas prices rise, traffic deaths decline

• Subway plan would have overcrowded trains skip stops

• Months-long Suffolk-state patrol saga still unresolved

Schools

• Long Island high school graduates

• Struggle over Harborfields post

• Search process begins for next Stony Brook president

• Audit praises Eastport-South Manor school district

• LI universities pan Congress's high-tuition list plan

Politics

• Israeli paper publishes Obama Western Wall prayer

• Obama speaks to more than 200,000 in Berlin

• Obama: I am committed to Israel security

• Speculation rises about a McCain running mate

• New York Times defends decision not to run McCain's op-ed, says it takes his views 'seriously'

Suffolk

• Swimmer feared dead in Hamptons

• Motorcyclist killed in West Babylon crash

• Mass. man accused of hitting LIer with bat freed

• Tankleff shares thoughts on false confessions

• Lake Tahoe drowning victim gets police, fire escort

Nassau

• Hempstead man drowns in Maryland river

• Nassau teen charged under social host law arrested again

• Singer Connie Francis hospitalized before LI concert

• Suozzi lobbies lawmakers to OK property tax cap

• No bail for Sea Cliff teacher aide charged in murder