The Central Islip man recently charged with torturing his pit bull was house manager in a 17-bedroom single family home being operated illegally as a rooming house, the Town of Islip said Monday.

Terms and conditions (The Comet)

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Looking For (The Morning Call)

Symphonic repairs: Mari of Schnecksville is looking for someone willing to repair a three-disc Symphonic CD player that is about 10 years old. ''I have had a difficult time finding someone to look at it and repair it at a reasonable cost. My father is legally blind so getting a new one where all the buttons are in the same place has been difficult,'' she says.

The Dog Gone Inn provides daycare for dogs (Central New York Business Journal)

MANLIUS - Leah Pekarsky has a law degree, but instead of practicing law she has turned her passion for animals into a new business in Manlius.

Briefly in Tompkins (The Ithaca Journal)

Ithaca High School students Jacob Evelyn (senior) and Mary Eloundou (sophomore) were awarded first prize and third prize in an essay competition to celebrate the French Presidency of the European Union, which ran from July-December 2008. Janet Bowman, French language teacher at Ithaca High School, learned of the competition through the Cornell Institute for European Studies' outreach program. ...