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PHOTOS Mastery Charter Schools’ hosted a college signing day
Mastery Charter Schools' hosted a college signing day yesterday at Temple University's Liacouras Center to celebrate its senior students' commitment to a college or university for the Fall 2013 semester. Rikard ...
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Boxer Bernard Hopkins will receive the 2013 Wanamaker Athletic Award
Philadelphia boxing legend Bernard Hopkins - also known as ';The Executioner'; - will receive this year’s John Wanamaker Athletic Award, the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau announced on Monday. The oldest fighter to win a world championship in boxing history, 48-year-old Hopkins in March snatched the IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion title from Tavoris Cloud in a ...
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Metro dominates as the most-read free newspaper in the Big Apple
Metro has gained nearly 100,000 daily readers in the last year as well as strengthened its grip as the most read free daily newspaper in New York, according to new figures that were just released. The market research company Scarborough said Metro reached an all-time record of 733,311 people over the age of 18 in the New York area, a whooping 15 percent increase to the same period in 2012. ...
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Kelly city is ‘too willing’ to settle lawsuits against NYPD
said to the Daily News . ';We need a lot more trials and efforts to determine the true facts in many of these allegations.'; Some of the nearly 60 cases involving the narcotics officer involved racial profiling and slurs. One of the lawsuits involved the beating of a man whose son was watching. The City Council has been ...
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Victim uses app to take photo with stolen phone
A 34-year-old man who was robbed of his phone early Sunday morning was able to access his phone’s camera using his computer and provided the police with a photo of a ';person of interest.'; At 4:45 a.m. Sunday morning, the victim passed three other men in the pedestrian tunnel at West 190th Street. One of the men grabbed the victim from behind and covered his eyes, while the ...
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DSP Police found 700 bags of ‘Death Injection’ heroin during car stop
Police allegedly seized more than 700 bags of of heroin stamped ';Death Injection'; and ';High Heat.'; (Credit: Delaware State ...
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Powerball hits for $1 million in Montgomery County
It’s not $600 million, but it will still pay some bills. A $1 million Powerball ticket was sold at a 7-Eleven in North Wales in Montgomery County. The ticket matched all five white balls, but not the crucial red Powerball. The winner has yet to claim the prize, officials said. The record Powerball jackpot, which equals$590.5 million annuity or $370.9 million cash, was sold in Florida. ...
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VIDEO Police release tape of suspect in fatal fruit vendor stabbing
April 18 stabbing death of a 68-year-old fruit cart vendor in South Philadelphia. Officers responded to the 400 block of Vollmer Street shortly after 5 a.m. for a report of a person with a weapon andfound the victim lying in front of his home. He had been stabbed multiple times and died on the scene. The ...
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Eastern State Penitentiary is hosting ‘Prison Food Weekend’
Eastern State Penitentiary’s Soup Alley. (Credit: Collection of Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, gift of the family of Howard H. Haines, Captain of the ...
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Vito Lopez scandal remains an issue for Sheldon Silver
Vito Lopez may no longer be Sheldon Silver’s colleague as of this morning, but it seems he may still be the Speaker’s problem. Calls for investigation into Silver have developed into calls for a coup, as women’s groups, government watchdog organizations, and newspaper editorial boards across the state rail against the Speak. Thursday’s New York Post covered featured the ...
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PHOTOS MBTA officials seek alleged T toucher
Transit Police are looking for help identifying a man who allegedly assaulted a woman on a Green Line C Trolley at Park Street MBTA Station last ...
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Over $2 million in heroin and crystal meth seized in drug trafficking bust
Three men were indicted today on drug trafficking charges after investigators New York State Police Special Investigations Unit traced a drug trail from a handoff in the Bronx on April 9, to a stash house in Corona, Queens. The investigation yielded approximately 10 pounds of heroin and nine pounds of crystal meth. The meth is valued at about $960,000, and that amount ofheroin could be sold ...
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Skaters rejoice Paine’s Park to open Wednesday
This rendering of Paine’s Park by Friday Architects/Planners is finally set to become a reality as the skatepark opens Wednesday. Credit: Franklin’s Paine Skatepark ...
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Police Woman’s dog thwarts robbery attempt
The old adage about man’s best friend has again proven two be true -Delaware State Police are crediting a 31-year-old woman’s four-legged companion with thwarting a robbery attempt in Wilmington on Saturday night. Investigators said the woman was walking her dog on an unlit footpath near Shipley Road and Philadelphia Pike when shortly before 10 p.m., she was confronted by two ...
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NJ hospital could be liable for inmate’s escape alleged murder
A judge last week ruled that a Newark, N.J., hospital could be liable for the escape of inmate David Goodell, who received treatment there after allegedly faking a seizure and who police said went on to kill 21-year-old Viviana Tulli in Garfield. Tulli’s sister and estate administrator Estella Tulli-Makowski in September of 2012 filed a suit in Essex County Superior Court against the ...
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Toucher Rich Naughty Mazz Loves New York City
Every so often, Toucher & Rich employ the help of Tony Massarotti's randy alter ego "Naughty Massarotti." The Bruins are headed to New York City to continue their series with the Rangers, and not only does Naughty Mazz love the Big Apple, he has some strong feelings for people associated with the city. It's your job to guess which New Yorker Naughty Mazz is talking ...
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Goat Snarls Traffic On New Jersey’s Pulaski Skyway
Pulaski Skyway in northern New Jersey. Jersey City Police Capt. Edgar Martinez said it took 90 minutes for emergency services to corral the goat as it ran along the four-lane bridge between Jersey City and Kearny Point Tuesday. ';The goat kept jumping over the divider and on top of cars,'; Martinez told 1010 WINS. ';It was cornered and captured with a rope and we were able to ...
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Suspect In Hofstra Home Invasion Avoided Return To Prison Despite Parole Violation
the home invasion that triggered the accidental police killing of 21-year-old Hofstra University student Andrea Rebello was a parolee. Dalton Smith, 30, had been released from prison a year early, having served nine years of a ten-year sentence for attempted robbery and criminal possession of a weapon. But he had violated his parole. However, he avoided being returned to prison by completing a ...
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Mets’ Davis Yankees’ Robertson To Hold Sandy Relief Golf Tournament
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Yankees pitcher David Robertson and Mets first baseman Ike Davis will help host a Long Island golf tournament to raise money for victims of Superstorm Sandy. It will be held July 17 at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, the course for the 2002 and 2009 U.S. Open. The tournament is scheduled for the day ...
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Thousands March Against Hate In New York City
murder of Mark Carson this weekend. The march to the spot where Carson was shot was led by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and Edie Windsor, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court challenge of the Defense of Marriage Act, and also included representatives from numerous other LGBT groups. Glennda Testone, Executive Director of the city’s LGBT Community ...
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Coming up New York Fed Dudleys speech
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - New York Fed President William Dudley will discuss monetary policy at the zero lower bound in Japan and the U.S. in a speech to the Japan Society in New York at 1 p.m. Eastern. Dudley's views are closely watched as he is seen as a member of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's inner-circle at the central bank. Dudley has been a strong supporter of the Fed's ...
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Attleboro rehires contractor despite lunch flap
ATTLEBORO, Mass. - The city of Attleboro has renewed its contract with the food services company that created a national ruckus when its workers denied lunch to about two dozen middle school students whose account balances were in arrears.The school committee on Monday approved a one-year contract with New York-based Whitsons Culinary Group.Whitsons officials apologized after cafeteria workers ...
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Another slow commute following train collision
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut commuters faced another morning of longer-than-normal delays on the highways leading to New York, as workers finished up repairs on the Metro-North railroad following last week’s train collision near ...
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Judge to rule on stop-and-frisk practices of NYPD
The judge hearing the lawsuit filed against the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk practices indicated she doesn't think the policy is effective. However, effectiveness is not what U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin must determine in Floyd v. City of New York, a class-action lawsuit charging New York police stop and frisk African-Americans and Hispanics without evidence ...
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Book News Murakami Translation Stoop Books of Brooklyn
English translation of ';Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,'; which sold over a million copies in just over a week when it was released in Japan last month. A selection from a collection of rare early printed books and manuscripts will ...
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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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