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Study: Latinos have net benefit on Long Island (Newsday) - Latino residents of Long Island contribute nearly $1 billion annually to local government coffers, far more than they cost local governments in services such as a schools and hospitals, a new study has found.

Alleged Peeping Tom Arrested In Long Island (WCBS-TV New York) - Police have arrested a man they say used his cell phone to take pictures up a girl's dress at a Long Island mall. A security guard at the Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove allegedly saw 22-year-old Carlos Hernandez-Morales taking the photos on Saturday.

FAA Investigates Small Plane Crash On Long Island (WCBS-TV New York) - A small private plane carrying a pilot and one passenger crashed on takeoff from a Long Island airport on Saturday morning, causing injuries to both people, an airport spokesman said.

Are Long Island military facilities safe? (Newsday) - Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran Greg Papadatos paused Tuesday when he heard on the radio about an alleged plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix.

Birds Fest coming to Kelleys Island (Port Clinton News Herald) - The Annual Kelleys Island Nest with the Birds festival will be May 13-19. Beginning Mother's Day, Allison Cusick leads the Wildflower Walk. The week will be wrapped up with Tom Bartlett, a master bander, bird banding at Long Point May 19.

Long Beach cops on patrol, on two wheels (Newsday) - Long Beach police officers cautiously tested out their new patrol vehicles on the city's boardwalk Tuesday -- two-wheeled Segway electric transporters.

Bugs booted at historic Angel Island site (Marin Independent Journal) - The historic barracks at the Angel Island Immigration Station are inhabited once again, not with tourists learning about its history, but with termites and beetles.

iSlanD noteS (Block Island Times) - There is a stand of knotweed by the door. It has been there all of my life and for years before that, a wall that came and went with every summer. It is the background in a photograph of cousins rarely seen and barely remembered, the ones of my generation appearing displeased to have been carted away from their summer friends for a long day trip to a faraway island.

Brawl erupts in Taiwan's parliament (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Dozens of Taiwanese lawmakers scuffled on the floor of parliament Tuesday amid a long-running dispute over a controversial bill on the formation of the island's election commission.

Jail construction getting more costly (Newsday) - Costly jail construction has spiked 20 percent on Long Island and upstate in the last decade, a trend fueled in part by a state agency that has forced communities to build detention centers against local opposition, according to a report released Tuesday.