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The GOP needed to win just one of the three City Council seats up for grabs in Tuesday's elections to retain control of City Hall.

Elections officials say the reasons are geographic, not political. But Suozzi's Republican challenger, Edward Mangano, who had been running ahead of the incumbent county executive until those polls came in, is asking his party and the police to keep a close watch on the recount.

Hugh Jackman, known for his big screen role as Wolverine in "X-Men" series, took his name out of consideration to host the 2010 Academy Awards.

Goldie Steinberg, who turns 109 years old today, with her son Donald Sargent and daughter Anne Teicher at a party to celebrate her birthday on Friday, October 30, 2009 in Long Beach, New York.

It's a nostalgia-rich week for Bunker Hill. At last Friday's meeting, the City Council voted to name the intersection of Fifth and Grand John Fante Square after the Bard of Bunker Hill.

Suozzi, 53, son of former Mayor Vincent "Jimmy" Suozzi and cousin of Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, says he's rescued a city saddled with $75 million in debt, with a deficit of nearly $16 million.

Bruce Ratner went modest this year. In June, the Atlantic Yards developer conceded that Frank Gehry won't be designing any of his 22-acre, $4.9 billion site's 17 buildings; cheaper alternatives replaced the architect's plans, and, among other things, shrunk the arena slated for his basketball team.

On Tuesday, October 20, Peter Silberman, the lead singer/guitarist of Brooklyn's The Antlers stood on stage and said to the crowd at Music Hall in Williamsburg, "Welcome to CMJ.

World champion Muscle Hill capped off his phenomenal career in style with another top-notch triumph in the $617,880 Breeders Crown Three-Year-Old Colt Trot Saturday evening at Woodbine Racetrack.

This past weekend, the American Kennel Club, along with our friends at the Cat Fanciers' Association, hosted 36,000 people over two days at Meet the Breeds in New York City.

The 2009 Bible Art Summit will be hold on Saturday, October 24th , with an exhibition on view from 1 to 6 p.m., and on Sunday, October 25th , with a juried award presentation and raffle drawings at 1 p.m. The event will take place at the People's Church of Long Beach, 111 Delaware Avenue, Long Beach, N.Y. The exhibit will feature art inspired by ...

A man charged in a weekend fatal hit-and-run in Long Beach left Nassau jail Monday after pleading not guilty to a felony charge, authorities said.

Shawn Gallivan, 22, is accused of striking David King , 53, sometime before 3:18 a.m. Saturday and leaving him lying in the street at Long Beach Boulevard and East Broadway, Long Beach City police said.

Herbert Siegel, 75, retired CEO from Long Beach, N.Y., won the 2009 New York Senior Poet Laureate Award for his poem "Monuments" in the 17th annual national Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition for American poets age 50 and older.

TLANTICA has taken Long Beach by storm, wowing crowds at the recently opened Allegria Hotel on the Boardwalk.

The City of Long Beach, along with Nassau County Legislator Denise Ford, and Long Island Crisis Center's Executive Director Linda Leonard, are sponsoring the first annual "Let's Walk, Let's Talk..Stepping Together to Prevent Suicide," a walk that will be held on Sunday, Oct.

Irish step dancers, from the Hagen School on East Park Avenue, danced with the parade, which ran from Washington Boulevard to Connecticut Avenue.

Photos of the newly opened Allegria Hotel, W. Broadway in Long Beach, which has opened along the boardwalk.

Don Corkery, the question of whether firefighter Wilbur Ritter died in the line of duty was simple.