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NYPD Businessman tortured held for ransom for month in US warehouse 3 flee to Ecuador
NEW YORK, N.Y. - A businessman was snatched from a New York City street in broad daylight, then held captive for more than a month in a warehouse where he was bound and burned with acid as he was held for a $3 million ransom his family back in Ecuador did not have, authorities said. Pedro Portugal, 52, was found this week by detectives who had been monitoring phone calls, noticed pizza ...
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Report Zack Wheeler Will Likely Make Just 2-3 More Starts Before Joining Mets
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A vital piece of the Mets’ puzzle is not too far away. Top pitching prospectZack Wheeler is expected to make just 2-3 more starts for Triple-A Las Vegas before being called up to Flushing to make his major league debut, a team official informed the New York Post. Barring a potential setback, the former first-round pick will likely make his first start for ...
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Teixeira Could Soon Start Playing In Minors Games Pettitte Making Progress
TAMPA, Fla. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Injured New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira could soon start playing in minor league games while pitcher Andy Pettitte is also working his way back to the majors. Teixeira has been out since injuring his right wrist in early March while with the U.S. team preparing for the World Baseball Classic. The All-Star has been taking part in simulated games this ...
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Boy Scouts Of America Votes To Lift Ban On Gay Scouts
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America’s National Councilvoted Thursday to ease a divisive ban allowing openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation’s leading youth organization. The resolution allows gay scouts. Whether to allow gay scout leaders was not up for consideration. ';The ...
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Boy 12 first to find pirate treasure in New York scavenger hunt
A New York 12-year-old won $10,000 worth of actual pirate treasure in a scavenger hunt organized to promote a Discovery Times Square exhibit. Sebastian Bekkaoui was one of 700 participants to receive the first clue Friday, and he and his mother, Sheila Doherty, 45, followed the clues to city locations where people in pirate garb handed out fresh clues. Bekkaoui and Doherty were the first to ...
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Weiner gets started stumping in NYC mayoral race
New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner discusses his policies with a passerby while greeting commuters during a campaign event outside a Harlem subway station, Thursday, May 23, 2013 in New York. Weiner, who ran for mayor in 2005 and nearly did in 2009, is getting into the race to succeed three-term Mayor Michael Bloomberg about two years after a series of tawdry tweets, and obfuscating ...
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Active hurricane season predicted
With the bad taste of superstorm Sandy still lingering, forecasters are looking ahead to "an active or extremely active" 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, starting June 1, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center. There's "a 70 percent likelihood of 13 to 20 named storms . . . of which 7 to 11 could become hurricanes . . ...
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Yankees and Mets TV ratings swing and miss
Photo credit: Kathy Kmonicek, 2009 | Players from the 1986 Mets, like SNY broadcasters Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez, tend to keep their interactions with the current team to a ...
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NYPD detective hires hacking service to help spy on fellow officers
LulzSec 'pirates' plead guilty to hacking Four LulzSec members who claim to be "latter-day pirates" have plead guilty to hacking charges and compromising millions of people's ...
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Bruins Live Blog B’s Looking To Sweep Rangers In New York
5 p.m.: It’s hard to believe it, but tonight, the Bruins will be playing for the sweep. There is no way to track down every prediction for this series, but it is safe to assume that the people who called for a Boston sweep account for less than 1 percent of the prognosticators. With two teams seemingly so evenly matched, a six-game series seemed to be the shortest route possible to the ...
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Unnamed Jets Player 80-90 Percent Of Team Wants Mark Sanchez Benched
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – It’s never too early for some Jets drama, is it? OTAs have just begun, but quarterback Mark Sanchez is off to a rough start already. The former first-round pick threwthree interceptions in 11 pass attempts on Wednesday, which didn’t sit to well with head coach Rex ...
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Police Accomplices In Brutal Queens Kidnapping Ransom Plot Flee The Country
brutal monthlong kidnapping of a businessman have fled to Ecuador. Kelly said Thursday that detectives were also looking for a man in New York City. He was seen on surveillance footage at Chase Bank trying to get cash from the victim’s account. Pedro Portugal was snatched off the street in broad daylight last month. Authorities say he was held captive by brutal kidnappers who burned him ...
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Man says missing students parents harassing him
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) -- A man who was one of the last people to see an Indiana University student before she vanished in 2011 says the student's parents are harassing ...
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Bus chaperone explodes at NY kids after candy toss
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) -- Police say a chaperone on a bus taking boys home from a party lit into them with a death-threatening, foul-mouthed tirade after one boy threw a piece of ...
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New York mayoral candidate Weiner uses Pittsburgh as backdrop
New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, a former U.S. House member and tweeter of lewd selfies, inexplicably splashed a photograph of Pittsburgh's Downtown across his campaign ...
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Summer Heat Is Going To Make New York Deadly
Summer heat waves can transform East Coast cities likes New York and Washington, DC, into humid, odiferous swamps of misery and stagnation. But with climate change conspiring toward increasingly hotter summers, New York and other towns won't just be more unpleasant; they'll be deadlier. ...
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Citibike gives Broadway building a win over street vendors
Several food vendors in front of 140 Broadway will need to relocate or shut down, as the building will host a CitiBike rack in front of the ...
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A look at weekend Thoroughbred racing
The Memorial Day weekend kicks off summer and, with no Triple Crown hopes to extend the spring, also kicks off a "second season" of racing. There are important turf races at Churchill Downs, Belmont Park, Hollywood Park and Arlington Park. Some of the nation's top steeds will be on display in the Grade I Met Mile at Belmont. Fillies and mares are in action from coast to coast and ...
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Three at SAC hedge fund issued subpoenas
Three executives at SAC Capital Advisors LP were issued subpoenas related to a U.S. insider trading investigation, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Citing sources it did not name, the newspaper said SAC President Thomas Conheeney, Chief Compliance Officer Steven Kessler and head of trading Phillipp Villhauer were issued subpoenas, but none have been accused of wrongdoing. The ...
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REFILE-BRIEF-New York Co reports Q1 earnings per share $0.03
Thu May 23, 2013 4:46pm EDT May 23 (Reuters) - New York & Co Inc : * Announces first quarter 2013 EPS of $0.03 * Q1 earnings per share $0.03 * Q1 same store sales fell 2 percent * Q1 earnings per share view $-0.07 -- Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S * Q1 sales $227.5 million versus I/B/E/S view $216.8 million * Says expects positive low to mid single-digit comparable store sales for the second ...
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New York Posts guide to Memorial Day Weekend
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start to summer and the perfect time to get out and about in the gorgeous weather. Check out the Post's guide to plan your perfect ...
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New Yorks best beaches
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start to summer and the perfect time to start working on that tan. Here is a list of the best local beaches so break out the sun block, pack a picnic and call your ...
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Police Investigating Possible Cyberbullying In Suicide Of Queens Girl 12
being bullied online . The girl was found dead in her home Wednesday afternoon by her family. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Thursday that investigators have taken two computers from the home to determine whether online messages may have led to her death. Police were also interviewing her friends and relatives. The girl, identified as Gabrielle Molina, attended Jean Nuzzi Intermediate ...
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Anthony Weiner’s Campaign Website Features Picture Of Pittsburgh
The view from the Roberto Clemente Bridge in Pittsburgh serves as the background for Anthony Weiner’s website. (credit: ...
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Mobster Pleads Guilty To Massive International Drug Trafficking Ring
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A guilty plea in Brooklyn federal court sheds light on a major narcotics syndicate that knew no boundaries. Alessandro Tallone of the Rizzuto organized crime family based in Montreal is one of ten members of that branch of La Cosa Nostra charged with trafficking over $1 billion worth of marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy into the U.S., WCBS 880′s Irene Cornell ...
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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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