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New control tower for Long Island MacArthur (USA Today) - Long Island's MacArthur Airport near Islip, N.Y., is getting a new $25.2 million air traffic control tower. Newsday of Long Island writes the new tower "will replace a decrepit, 46-year-old tower long overdue for retirement, officials said Monday." Construction is...

Stavola Sets Long Island K Record (East Hampton Independent) - The record speaks for itself. And now, all of Long Island knows the most prolific strikeout artist in the history of Long Island high school softball opens and closes a locker door in East Hampton High School.

Cablevision to Purchase Long Island's Newsday for $650 Million (Bloomberg.com) - May 12 (Bloomberg) -- Cablevision Systems Corp. , the New York-area cable provider, agreed to buy 97 percent of Long Island's Newsday newspaper from Tribune Co. for $650 million.

Cablevision pays $650 million to buy Long Island-based newsaper Newsday (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - NEW YORK - Cablevision Systems Corp. says it is buying the Long Island-based newspaper Newsday from Tribune Co. for $650 million. Cablevision beat out media mogul Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., who withdrew his own $580 million bid on Saturday.

Cablevision buys Long Island newspaper (Daily Record) - NEW YORK (AP) -- Cablevision Systems Corp. is buying the Long Island-based newspaper Newsday from Tribune Co. for $650 million, the companies announced Monday.

Cablevision purchases Long Island newspaper for $650 million (San Diego Union-Tribune) - Cablevision Systems Corp. finalized a deal late yesterday for control of Newsday, a Tribune Co. newspaper in Long Island, N.Y., in a transaction worth $650 million that's set to be announced today.

News Corp. ends bid to buy Long Island newspaper Newsday (AP via Yahoo! News) - News Corp., the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, has withdrawn its bid to purchase the Long Island paper Newsday, a News Corp. spokeswoman said Saturday.

The First of Long Island Corporation Announces Increase in Earnings for the First Quarter of 2008 (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance) - GLEN HEAD, N.Y., May 12, 2008 -- In the first quarter of 2008, The First of Long Island Corporation earned $.39 per share, or $2,857,000, as compared to $.34 per share, or $2,628,000, for the same quarter last year.

Gas tops $4 a gallon on Long Island (Newsday) - This weekend, several gas stations on Long Island began to post prices of more than $4 a gallon. And that's for the no-frills, regular, 87-octane stuff.

VAI Wins 2008 Long Island Software Award (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - RONKONKOMA, N.Y.----VAI , a leader in enterprise solutions for the distribution, manufacturing, retail and service industries, and an IBM Premier Business Partner, today announced that the firm's S2K Manufacturing Management product has been selected as a 2008 Long Island Software Awards winner.