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Sprint 'Powers Up' Long Island Coverage, Capacity to Its Wireless Networks with a Nearly $23 Million Investment (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - LONG ISLAND, N.Y.----Sprint Nextel today announced enhancements to both the Sprint PCS Nationwide Network and the Nextel National Network on Long Island with an investment of nearly $23 million through the third quarter of 2006 with more to come before yearend.

Swastikas are painted on Long Island church (The Buffalo News) - SOUND BEACH (AP) - Police are looking for vandals who painted at least eight swastikas on a Long Island church. Clergymen arriving Sunday at St. Louis de Montfort Church discovered the swastikas.

Historic Robben Island football movie (Independent Online) - One of the most remarkable stories in the history of modern sport - how political prisoners on Robben Island organised and ran a three-division football league during their long incarceration - will soon be told on film.

Honolulu Officials Back Rail as Best Long-Term Transportation Solution on Island, But Decision Remains on Final Route (Smart Growth Online) - Urged by residents, labor leaders and other officials, including University of Hawaii-Manoa Chancellor Denise Konan and Democratic Congressman Neil Abercrombie, the Honolulu City Council's Transportation Committee passed a bill (79) that calls rail ''the best selection for the long-term needs and demands of our growing island population,'' with Mayor Mufi Hannemann optimistic the full council

Grey Island's InterFleet Wins Long Island Rail Road Contract (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance) - Grey Island Systems International Inc today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary InterFleet Inc. has been awarded a contract with the Long Island Rail Road , to track and manage its fleet of 550 service vehicles.

Avast! 'Treas AAAAAR Island!' (Hollister Free Lance) - Pirate mania is coming to the South Valley with not one, but two productions based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, "Treasure Island."

Taiwan: China targeting island with 900 missiles on 5 bases (World Tribune) - China continues its planning to invade Taiwan and now has more than 900 missile targeted on the island, Taiwanese officials said last week.

Vancouver Island city resurfaces after storm (CBC British Columbia) - Recovery efforts have begun in the Vancouver Island city of Port Alberni after Wednesday's storm caused widespread flooding, knocked out power and cut off the community from the rest of the world.

LIRR to have platform conductors supervise gaps (Newsday) - The preventative measure was only in place at Syosset, but Mineola, Ronkonkoma, Hicksville and Freeport will all be monitored. In its latest effort to prevent gap falls, the Long Island Rail Road has assigned platform conductors to supervise the morning rush hour at five stations -- expanding a practice that for years existed only at the dangerously curved Syosset station.

Arson victim terrified island residents, jury hears (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News) - Many Grand Manan residents feared the man whose island home was attacked and burned to the ground last summer, defence witnesses told a St. Andrews jury on Wednesday.