Long Island

• Public service announcements not getting message across

  Breast cancer specialists were alarmed last year when research from the National Cancer Institute revealed mammography use had dropped so sharply that doctors feared a rise in invasive cancers.

• Gang activity plagues Long Island despite crackdowns

  It was around midnight one steamy Saturday when two gang members with the street names Clown and Baldy were cruising Freeport, looking for someone to kill.

• Rick Brand: With a big war chest, Levy's at a crossroads

  When Steve Levy first won his county legislature seat in 1985, he spent $5,000 and a lot of shoe leather walking the district.

• Kin: Woman in murder-suicide left violent relationship

  They were anything but perfect for each other.

• Fundraiser for wounded soldier draws big support

  At the beer garden behind the Plattdeutsche Park Restaurant in Franklin Square, family, friends and total strangers greeted Christopher Levi, the once gravely wounded Army corporal who returned to Long Island yesterday for a fundraiser in his honor.

• Joye Brown: Jellyfish real pain for Long Island Sound swimmers

  Not long after Holger Fietkau fired his starter's gun to send a wave of swimmers off on a 5K race in Huntington Bay last Sunday, a jellyfish undulated brazenly into view.

• Lloyd Kraus, WWII veteran and businessman, dies

  Lloyd Kraus, a decorated World War II veteran who went on to became a major in the Army Reserve and built several successful local businesses during Long Island's suburban boom era, has died. He was 93.

• At 100 years old, nun has earned her optimism

  Sister Mary Loyola Engel still remembers watching lamplighters come down the streets of Manhattan to ignite the street lights at night before there was electricity.

• Suffolk police commissioner defends officers in Lazo case

  Suffolk Police Commissioner Richard Dormer, in an internal department memo, again defended officers' actions in subduing Kenny Lazo, saying they used "the minimum force necessary" in a violent struggle during a roadside arrest.

• McCartney cameo at Shea takes fans back to '60s shows

  When Paul McCartney walked onstage toward the end of Billy Joel's concert at Shea Stadium, Rosalia Rosen felt the exhilaration she had experienced at the 1966 Beatles show in the same venue.

• Hempstead Bay searched for operator of Jet Ski

  A police recovery team swept Hempstead Bay with a sonar scanner for the operator of a Jet Ski found abandoned early yesterday morning without finding anyone, Nassau police said.

• Beachgoers return to Zach's Bay after shark caught

  Sunbathers and swimmers - but fewer of them - returned to Zach's Bay yesterday, watched over by more lifeguards after a young shark was plucked from the waters there Friday.

• Crash victim's sister feels sorry for unlicensed teen driver

  The sister of a Brooklyn motorcyclist critically injured when an unlicensed teenager improperly turned his car in front of him - killing the teen's own mother - said yesterday that she harbors no enmity toward the 17-year-old.

• SHOOTING AT GREENPORT RESTAURANT

  A Bronx man shot a rival twice in the stomach yesterday after an altercation at a Greenport restaurant, Southold police said. Equan Sanders, 27, of 152nd Street, had fought with a 29-year-old Bellport man with whom he had an ongoing feud, at Rhumb Line Restaurant, police said. In the altercation, Sanders drew a handgun, fired and fled the restaurant. The owner chased Sanders and attracted the attention of an officer on foot patrol, who arrested Sanders shortly after 2 a.m., police said. "He made a foot pursuit on this gentleman and was able to catch him," Det. Steve Harned said of the officer. Sanders was charged with first-degree assault, criminal possession of a controlled substance, and marijuana possession. Police said they found a .22-caliber handgun near the restaurant that they believe was used in the shooting. Harned said the name of the wounded man is being withheld because investigators haven't been able to speak with him since he's been in surgery. Harned said the man likely would survive.