EAST HILLS, N.Y. - A man was rescued after spending more than four hours Tuesday trapped up to his chest in sewage waste after falling into a Long Island cesspool, authorities said. Full Article at Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor

those words mean exactly that — the Old Testament eye-for-an-eye that, the late Gandhi wisely noted, ultimately leaves the whole world blind. Full Article at TwinCities.com

From Gothamist: The future USS NEW YORK (LPD 21), built with 7.5 tons of steel from the World Trade Center in her bow, will be commissioned in New York City on November 7, 2009. Full Article at Queens Crap

(NECN/WABC: Staten Island, NY) - Some 42,000 runners will propel themselves through the five boroughs in the New York Road Runners and ING New York City Marathon on Sunday (11/1). Full Article at NECN

NEW YORK (AP) -- Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta, who took over as head of the Fire Department of New York as it reeled from the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, is leaving his post at the end of the year. department, including a 2007 fire at a condemned... Full Article at The Connecticut Post