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Long Island Woman Arrested After Wild Car Chase (WNBC) - A Long Island woman was admitted for psychiatric evaluation after she struck a pedestrian, rammed a police car and led police on a miles-long chase.

Long Island Blood Services elect new chair (Babylon Beacon) - Kevin Dahill, president/CEO of the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council (NSHC), which represents Long Island's 24 not-forprofit and public hospitals, was named chair of the hospital division for Long Island Blood Services. His term ends in 2008. Dahill is a resident of Stony Brook.

Pine Barrens Society's Executive Director Predicts Long Island's Open Space Will Vanish (RedNova) - By Ambrose Clancy The Pine Barrens Society says open space on Long Island will be a memory in eight years unless a coordinated plan of action is waged.

Long Island Firms to Merge (WebCPA) - New York (April 20, 2007) - Garden City, N.Y.-based Israeloff, Trattner & Co. CPAs PC has merged with its Long Island neighbor, Hempstead, N.Y.-based accounting and tax firm Bloom & Co. LLP.

Cruising on Long Island Sound (WestportNow) - Boating season has arrived in Westport with warmer temperatures, and with the sun out on Thursday people took their boats out on Long Island Sound. Temperatures reached 60 on Thursday with the sun shining for the first time this week.

Girl abducted on Long Island, released (WABC-TV New York) - Police say a girl on Long Island was kidnapped right in front of her home -- but it was quick thinking that may have saved her life.

Luxury Home Prices Fall in New York's Long Island (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) - April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Luxury home prices slid in New York's Long Island and Queens in the first quarter as more property came onto the market and took longer to sell, appraiser Miller Samuel Inc. and broker Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate said.

High-Risk Patient Populations For MRSA Carriage Identified By Rhode Island Hospital Study (Medical News Today) - A Rhode Island Hospital study presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) annual meeting found that patients in long-term elder care and HIV-infected outpatients appear to be high-risk groups for carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a common cause for health care associated infections. [click link for full article]

Mercer Island Has It All, Plus Extra Helping of Teen Angst (RedNova) - By Amy Roe, Seattle Times Apr. 21--Wealthy, accomplished and ambitious, Mercer Island youth appear to have it all -- more money and, according to a new study, more problems, too.

LI company blames Brazilian air traffic control for fatal crash (Newsday) - ExcelAire said faulty Brazilian air traffic control was to blame for a middair collision between one of the Long Island company's executive jets and a commercial airliner that killed 154 people in Brazil's deadliest air disaster.