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Needle-Exchange Pilot Program In New Jersey Is 'Struggling' To Enroll IDUs, AP/Long Island Newsday Reports (Medical News Today) - New Jersey's pilot needle-exchange program is "struggling" to enroll injection drug users in part because of a lack of funding, the AP/Long Island Newsday reports (Mulvihill, AP/Long Island Newsday, 2/23). The pilot programs were recently launched in Camden and Paterson, N.J.

Long Island Shooting Case Highlights Racial Divide (NPR) - In this week's New Yorker, staff writer Calvin Trillin writes about the trial of John White, a black man from Long Island convicted of manslaughter for killing a white teenager who came to his home and threatened his son in the summer of 2006.

LONG ISLAND MOM PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO KILLING CHILDREN (New York Post) - A Long Island mom accused of cold-heartedly drowning her three young kids pleaded not guilty today during a hospital bedside arraignment.A puffy-faced Leatrice Brewer, 27, "just stared off into space, looking at the wall" as she was advised of the...

Caseworker suspended after mother kills 3 children on Long Island (New York Daily News) - A social services supervisor in Long Island was suspended without pay today for failing to send a caseworker to the home of three children the day before their mother drowned them.

Lobstermen: Die-Off May Be Occurring In Long Island Sound (NBC 30 Connecticut) - There are signs that Long Island Sound may be suffering from another die-off that wiped out 80 percent of the Sound's lobsters in 1999.

Second wave of shore plover to Mana Island (Scoop.co.nz) - Twenty more nationally-endangered shore plover took up residence on Mana Island near Wellington today as part of a Department of Conservation plan to ensure their long-term survival.

Previsite Signs Deal with Long Island-Based Laffey Associates to Deliver Cost-Effective, All-in-One Advanced Virtual ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - NEW YORK----Previsite, the worldwide leader in rich media content creation for the Real Estate industry, today announced a deal with CENTURY 21 Laffey Associates, Long Island's largest independently owned & operated real estate company, to provide the company's over 500 agents with Previsite's state-of-the-art, all-in-one Virtual Tour package.

Jupiter Island 'reviewing its options' to regulate the number of cyclists that can ride together (Stuart News) - State Road 707 winding north and south through the lush Town of Jupiter Island has long been a paradise for residents and area bicyclists, but that popularity is now causing concern for both.

Police: Long Island Mother May Have Drowned Three Children (FOX 5 New York) - A homicide detective says it appears three children found dead in their Long Island apartment may have been drowned. One child's throat was cut and all three showed signs of possible poisoning. Authorities say their mother called police claiming she killed them early Sunday in New Cassel.

Long Island Mother Held in Deaths of 3 Children (FOX 5 New York) - The three children found dead over the weekend inside their home on Long Island may have been drowned, police say. One child's throat may have been cut. Their mother called police allegedly saying she had killed them all.