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Spirit Airlines announces Long Island-Florida flights (Newsday) - Spirit Airlines is expanding service to Long Island, adding two daily flights from MacArthur Airport to its hub in Fort Lauderdale .

Spirit Airlines Connects Long Island MacArthur to Latin America and the Caribbean with New Service to Fort Lauderdale (Centre Daily Times) - Spirit Airlines today announced the addition of yet another new route from its Fort Lauderdale home with twice daily non-stop service between Fort Lauderdale and New York's Long Island MacArthur Airport in the Town of Islip beginning May 1, 2008. The new service will connect passengers to the Caribbean and Latin America via its South Florida gateway at Fort Lauderdale.

Spirit Airlines Connects Long Island MacArthur to Latin America and the Caribbean with New Service to Fort Lauderdale (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - MIRAMAR, Fla.----Spirit Airlines today announced the addition of yet another new route from its Fort Lauderdale home with twice daily non-stop service between Fort Lauderdale and New York's Long Island MacArthur Airport in the Town of Islip beginning May 1, 2008.

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.

Sportsman's Park site nears long-awaited redevelopment (Chicago Tribune) - Cicero approves TIF measures for project with stores, park Construction workers are expected to break ground at the long-vacant Sportsman's Park site in the coming weeks, transforming the 89 acres into an island of retail stores and park space, Cicero officials said.

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.