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IMPERIAL — JetBlue Airways will offer service from Pittsburgh International Airport to Tampa, Florida for the first time to accommodate fans traveling to and from Super Bowl XLIII on Feb. 1.

The discount airline will offer one flight each on Jan. 29 and 30 to Tampa, and two nonstop flights back to Pittsburgh on Feb. 2.

The airline's "Big Game Shuttle" will feature a 150-seat Airbus A320.

JetBlue began offering flights from Pittsburgh to Boston and New York in June 2006. The airline plans to add a second daily flight between Pittsburgh and Boston in May.

ERIE — Two ships stuck in the ice trying to enter Presque Isle Bay have made it to shore with the help of a Coast Guard icebreaker.Thick ice kept the ships, the Roger Blough and the Presque Isle, from making it into the Lake Erie bay Saturday morning.The Coast Guard sent a 140-foot icebreaking tug boat from Cleveland that led the ships into the bay Sunday morning.The Roger Blough is a self-unloading bulk carrier that anchored at the old ore dock in the bay. The Presque Isle is an ore freighter that was headed to Mountfort Terminal.

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