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No one in the New York congressional delegation is more enthusiastic about new a oesocial mediaa tools such as Twitter and YouTube than Rep.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported good news Thuesday: The death rate on the nation's roads fell to the lowest point since 1961 last year.

Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has received a letter of thanks from New York state politicians for his role in helping a Nevada fan raise the money for a heart transplant .

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U.S. Representative Tim Bishop helped write legislation approved by the House of Representatives last week that would outlaw the use of open-air burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The politically conservative protesters who swamped a Rep. Tim Bishop town hall meeting in Setauket last week continued to dog him at a Centereach appearance Monday.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy this week signed off on a new law that seeks to cut down on the amount of noise created by low-flying helicopters traveling to and from the East End, even though county officials admit that the new regulation might be unenforceable.

TEA PARTIERS ELSEWHERE TAKE NOTE OF THIS APPROACH: Rep. Tim Bishop Runs from Constituents.

The House of Representatives passed a provision Thursday in its version of the 2010 defense authorization bill that would prohibit open-air burn pits from operating for longer than 12 months in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Rep. Bishop points toward a loud protestor in the front corner of the meeting room of the Neighborhood House during Monday night's 90-minute confrontation.

Will the $8,000 homebuyer tax credit be extended, or possibly even expanded? Maybea Or maybe not.

Congressman Tim Bishop, behind his Long Island aide, Jon Schneider, enters the Neighborhood House in Setauket, past the jeering crowd of demonstrators.

At Monday's groundbreaking were: Michael Holland, U.S. Dept. of Energy; Shirley Strum Kenny, SUNY Stony Brook; Frank Crescenzo, U.S. Dept.

Brookhaven National Lab is beginning construction of a massive machine that scientists will use to beam light rays 10 billion times brighter than the sun onto molecules to view individual atoms.

The state Environmental Facilities Corp. has signed off on a deal to cut in half a $5.2- million stimulus grant to a Brookhaven Empire Zone industrial park and give that money to Patchogue 's sewage plant instead.

Winners of the Jr. Teen and Teen pageant, Mattah Wright and Autumn Rose Williams, at the Shinnecock Indian Teen Pageant at the Southampton Inn ballroom in Southampton, N.Y. on Saturday, June 13,2009. Autumn Rose Williams, 15, of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, took the title of Miss Shinnecock Teen 2009 Saturday night at the revival of an event ...

The House has proposed new legislation that would close improperly facilitated burn pits used by U.S. military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Patchogue Mayor Paul Pontieri is bewildered, and he's angry. Two years ago, Sens.

U.S. Reps. from New Hampshire and New York say burn pits used to destroy war zone waste in Iraq and Afghanistan are harming, and possibly killing, American military people.

Two members of Congress are pushing for legislation to regulate the use of "burn pits" at U.S. military bases across Iraq and Afghanistan.