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NYC mayor urges courage at Ohio commencement
GAMBIER, Ohio (AP) -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told college graduates in Ohio that success in life requires courage, curiosity and hard ...
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New York politician accused of serial sex harassment to resign
ALBANY, N.Y.-A New York assemblyman accused of sexually harassing young female staffers for years says he will resign before he's expelled from the Legislature. Assemblyman Vito Lopez informed leaders on Saturday he will resign effective Monday morning. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver had planned a rare expulsion proceeding against Lopez beginning Monday. Lopez was once a powerful Brooklyn ...
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Police call fatal NYC shooting a hate crime
NEW YORK -; Police say a gunman used anti-gay slurs before fatally shooting a 32-year-old man in New York City's Greenwich (GREN'-ich) ...
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West Village anti-gay attack leaves man shot dead NYPD says
NYC crime rates A 32-year-old man was shot and killed in an apparent anti-gay attack in the West Village early Saturday morning.The victim, whose name is being withheld until family is notified, was shot in the face with a .38-caliber revolver while walking with a friend about midnight on Eighth Street, shortly after the suspect had passed the pair and made anti-gay remarks, New York City ...
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36 New Officers Added To New York State Park Police Force
ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — The New York State Parks system is adding 36 new officers to the ranks of its force, which is responsible for safety at 179 parks and 35 historic sites. Officials with the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation announced this week that 36 recruits have graduated from the New York State Park Police Academy in Rensselaerville, outside Albany. It ...
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Yankees Designate Alberto Gonzalez Acquire Reid Brignac From Rockies
NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Yankees have acquired infielder Reid Brignac from the Colorado Rockies for cash, adding a left-handed bat to the group of backups filling in for the team’s injured stars. Brignac was designated for assignment by Colorado on Thursday. He was acquired by the Rockies from Tampa Bay on Feb. 14 and hit .250 in limited action. New York designated shortstop Alberto ...
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Official `Amazing no one died in train crash
Seventy-two people were sent to the hospital Friday evening after the crash, which damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the Northeast ...
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UAE Host UN High-Level Thematic Debate on Energy-Water Nexus in New York
WAM NEW YORK: May 18th, 2013 (WAM): The United Arab Emirates (UAE) partnered with the President of the 67th Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly to host a high-level, thematic debate titled "Sustainable Development and Climate Change: Practical Solutions in the Energy-Water Nexus" on 16 May 2013 at the UN Headquarters in New York. Government leaders and a diverse ...
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UPDATE 1-Investigators seek cause of New York commuter train crash
Sat May 18, 2013 2:05pm EDT (Updates with car safety, ridership numbers) By Karen Brooks May 18 (Reuters) - Federal investigators on Saturday searched for the cause of a rush-hour train crash in Connecticut that injured dozens of people commuting home from New York City, three of them critically. More than 60 people were hospitalized Friday night after an eastbound commuter train derailed and ...
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Official Assemb. Vito Lopez to step down Monday
Photo credit: AP | Assemblyman Vito Lopez, D-Brooklyn, speaks during an affordable housing news conference as Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, left, listens, at the Capitol in Albany. (April 18, ...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs Flaming Lips Ring In Summer Early At GoogaMooga
GoogaMooga festival best. It was not too cold, not too hot, pretty much the perfect night for an outdoor show. It was almost as if you were back in your mother's womb. Hidden away in a remote field of Brooklyn's Prospect Park (to find the location, it was best to just follow the music, since signage was spare), Coyne and the rest of his band tried to amp up the crowd. Taking the ...
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Queens Councilman bashes Delta terminal concessionaires after taking donation from airline
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you!City Councilman Donovan Richards turned up at a ceremony Thursday morning to accept a $100,000 donation from Delta Airlines for the opening of a YMCA in his Rockaways district.That night, the Queens Democrat turned up at a community rally to protest that concessionaires at the new $1.4 billion Delta terminal at JFK were paying wages as low as $8 an ...
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Young Woman Dies A Day After Being Hit By Vehicle In The Bronx
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — One of three people women struck by a vehicle in the Bronx Friday has died. The accident happened around 3:30 p.m. Friday at Grand Concourse near East 172nd Street. Two female victims - described in some reports as 20 and 28 and in others as 16-year-old girls — were taken to Bronx Lebanon Hospital in critical condition. One has since died, authorities ...
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Winning Mega Millions Ticket Sold In New Jersey
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — A Mega Millions jackpot ticket was sold in New Jersey Friday night, while the Powerball jackpot stands at a whopping $600 million. Winning Mega Millions tickets worth $190 million were sold in New Jersey and Virginia. Three tickets in New York and three in New Jersey also matched five numbers without the "mega" number, for a value of $250,000 each. ...
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Soccer-Vilanova needs more cancer treatment in New York
At 16 years old, Jack Andraka is already a superstar in the field of science. Earlier this year, he won Intel's prestigious Gordon E. Moore Award, when he created a groundbreaking testing method that can detect pancreatic cancer in its earliest stages. His work is expected to save thousands of ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 18
Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Chicago Cubs: 1. ...
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Hard days fight Founders of Beatles tribute band sue co-producer for allegedly knocking off their act
An imitation Beatles band is upset that another bunch of Fab Four fakers could soon be here, there and everywhere.The founding members of "Rain - A Tribute to The Beatles" sued their co-producer yesterday for allegedly knocking off their act for a British production called "Let It Be" that’s expected to open on Broadway in July.Court papers also allege that Jeff Parry ...
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Heights transports you to New York neighborhood
May 18--BOSTON -- SpeakEasy Stage Company's "In the Heights" so convincingly envelops the audience in a corner of a not-so-long-ago Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City that it might take a minute to get your bearings when you leave Boston Center for the Arts and find yourself in the South End. The sense of elsewhere is due in part to Jenna McFarland Lord's scenic ...
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Man Shot Killed At Busy Greenwich Village Intersection
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A man was shot and killed early Saturday in fashionable Greenwich Village. Police were dispatched to the corner of 8th Street and Sixth Avenue just after midnight Saturday. They found the victim, an unidentified 32-year-old man, on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head, police said. The victim was pronounced dead a short time afterward at Beth Israel ...
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Second Suspect Apprehended In Robbery Of Man 78 In The Bronx
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A second suspect has been charged in the robbery of a 78-year-old man for his chain and pendant in the Bronx last week. Datwan Elliot, 23, of the Bronx, was charged with robbery, assault and grand larceny in the ...
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CBS 2 Weekend Program Links May 18-19
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First Rentals Native New York Style
Back to New York for Julio Gomez, 22, center, means an address not in his boyhood Bronx, but in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. For Harris Meyers, 21, left, it's the old parental abode in Gramercy Park. For Floy Salembier, 22, it's Peter Cooper Village, many blocks south of her childhood ...
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Yoshitomo Nara Exhibit Surveys His Unique Brand Of Kute Kulture In New York
On the surface, [Nara's works are] pretty damn cute. But Nara has stepped outside that world in a big way, " Byrne wrote in the catalogue essay for Nara's newest exhibition in New York. "The kids and dogs in his pictures and bronzes are defiant, angry, annoyed, and pissed off. They have rebelled against their roots, and their big eyes are cold." The exhibit, on view now ...
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Canada uneasy about oil-sands byproduct accumulation
A member of the Canadian Parliament said he wants an investigation with the United States into a three-story mound of coke piling up at a refinery in Ontario. The coke is a by-product of the refining of oil sands and has been piling up quickly at the Marathon refinery in Windsor along the Detroit River. "Here's a little bit of Alberta," said Brian Masse, one of Windsor's ...
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Cops investigating after Long Island college student killed
By Frank Eltman Associated Press UNIONDALE, N.Y. - Last Sunday Andrea Rebello, a 21-year-old Hofstra University junior studying public relations, posted a recipe for how to prepare July 4-themed strawberries covered in sparkling sugars on her blog. Less than a week later, Nassau County police announced that Rebello, who was with her twin sister Jessica and several other college students inside ...
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New York's community gardens creating tension once more
Community gardening in New York is under threat again, but what are the ideas and opinions surrounding this ongoing battle between the people and the city?
Community gardening is a well-known term and idea in New York City thanks to the much-publicized opposition between former Mayor Giuliani and members of the New York City public, who brought a lawsuit to have the gardens protected. The issue was eventually resolved when Mayor Bloomberg replaced Giuliani and introduced the Garden Settlement of 2002. Read more
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