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The No. 1 draft pick of the metropolitan area's newest professional sports team drives to practice in a green Honda Civic with 104,000 miles on it. She lives at home in the house she grew up in in Montclair, N.J., to save money.

. 'Shameful' expenses row hits coffers. Second MP suspended over mortgageLabour's most generous donors are to withdraw financial support worth millions of pounds and have called for the arrest of the party's errant MPs in the wake of disastrous revelations about parliamentary expenses.The disclosure is a further body blow to Gordon Brown's advisers after 10 days of damaging disclosures. Yesterday a second Labour backbencher, David Chaytor, was suspended from the party whip after admitting he claimed £13,000 for a mortgage he had already paid off, while a senior minister predicted that sitting MPs would be deselected in a purge of parliament.A poll published today on the website PoliticsHome.com, and previewed exclusively by the Observer, shows that the scandal has driven more than a quarter of voters to change the party they support. The main beneficiary is Ukip, followed by the British National Party and the Greens.The Observer has spoken to 10 prominent donors and only one pledged to

Federal officials will investigate reports that two Continental Airlines planes were tracked by a green laser as they flew out of Newark Liberty international Airport. Both incidents occurred shortly after 10 p.m. Friday. Federal Aviation Administration... Related: Newark Liberty International Airport - Continental Airlines - New Jersey - Federal Aviation Administration - Buffalo Niagara International Airport

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The Zino Society announced yesterday it has awarded its $50,000 Zino Green Fund to Seattle-based Hydrovolts, the maker of a novel underwater turbine for producing electricity in canals and waterways. Hydrovolts is led by Burt Hamner, who pitched the company at last month's Zino Society Green Investment Forum.