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NTSB To Probe Connecticut Metro-North Derailment That Injured 60
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (CBSNewYork) — Crews remained on the scene Saturday morning, following the derailment and collision of two crowded Metro-North trains in Connecticut. As CBS 2's Janelle Burrell ...
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Preparing Your Yard For The 17-Year Cicada
RHINEBECK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — The 17-year cicadas will come out of hiding before you know it, and if you have just landscaped your yard, you might want to take some precautions. As WCBS 880's Deborah Rodriguez reported, when the cicadas poke their heads out of the ground in the next week or two, they will latch right onto trees and bushes - posing a problem to smaller, tender ...
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Plane Crash-Lands With No Gear At Newark Airport
NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — It was a scary morning Saturday for passengers at Newark Liberty International Airport, as their plane made a crash landing. During the 8 a.m. hour, the plane was hauled off the tarmac at the airport. A video shared on social media apparently showed the moment of ...
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Mayor Bloomberg privately fuming over snooping scandal
EXCLUSIVE Mayor Bloomberg is privately fuming at the data breach that has imperiled the reputation of his global media company, according to sources."The mayor is very upset," one source said of the scandal that has been dubbed Bloomberg Spygate.A second insider said that Bloomberg made known his feelings to company executives once Goldman Sachs complained that Bloomberg News ...
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New York commuter train crash under investigation
New York commuter trains, injuring 60 people, is to be investigated by the American Transportation Safety Board.Governor Dannal Molloy of Connecticut said five people were critically injured and one very critically injured in the collision on Friday night.One of the trains left New York's Grand Central station for New Haven, Connecticut, and was derailed before being hit by another train ...
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Five people critically injured and sixty hospitalized after two New York commuter trains collide in Connecticut
Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five with critical injuries, Gov. Dannel Malloy ...
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Albert Seedman Former Chief of Detectives in New York Dies at 94
New York Police Department 's chief of detectives in the early 1970s who became something of a celebrity as the savvy, cigar-chomping personification of the tough-guy cop while modernizing a tradition-bound force, died on Friday in Delray Beach, Fla. He was ...
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Pilot makes emergency landing at Newark Airport after landing gear malfunctions
The pilot of a twin-engine plane carrying 31 passengers made an emergency landing at Newark International Airport this morning after his landing gear malfunctioned, sources said.The US Air flight was arriving from Philadelphia about 1 a.m. when pilot Ed Powers noticed one of the landing gears was not down, Port Authority sources said. Powers raised the other gear and landed the plane on its ...
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Probe begins after Conn. commuter trains crash
FAIRFIELD, Conn. - Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent more than 60 people to Connecticut hospitals, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast ...
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New Jet in pot gun bust
Snared $6.9M pact. A tow-truck driver saw the SUV and called 911 "concerned about the condition" of Goodson, said police Lt. Stephen Jones.Goodson, 25, was taken by ambulance to St. Clare’s Hospital in Denville - but not before cops found the native of Irvington, NJ, had a "small amount of marijuana" on him, Jones said.State police also arrived at the scene and found ...
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‘Fraud’ owner shutters club
A swanky Russian-themed Brooklyn hot spot shut down yesterday, just over a week after its owner was busted on fraud charges.The feds accused Rasputin Supper Club owner Michael Levitis, 36, of masterminding a crooked debt-relief agency.Neighbors said they saw city marshals shut down the club and change the locks last night. Defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman said Levitis shut down temporarily to ...
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Axing Jay a liberal NBC laugh gaffe
Andrea Peyser Bring back Jay Leno!He hasn’t left the building yet? Maybe there’s still hope.This boneheaded move stands to go down along with history’s greatest mistakes:The ascent of Anthony Weiner. Tiger Woods, too. The public disembowelment of former NBC "Today’’ show host Ann Curry.Now we can add to this list the painful decision that, come February, the ...
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‘Glass’-action suit vs. Mickey D
A Brooklyn gospel singer says she bit into a piece of glass bigger than a penny while eating a chicken sandwich at a lower Manhattan McDonald’s and it ruined her voice."Now when I sing, I have a hoarse, rattly voice," said Jacqueline Simpson, 52, who yesterday filed suit in Brooklyn Supreme Court. "I still sing alto, but I can’t sing soprano like I used to."She ...
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LI Navy SEAL killed
A Navy SEAL from Long Island was killed and seven fellow service members were injured when their Humvee overturned during a training exercise, the Navy announced yesterday.Wednesday’s accident at Fort Knox, Ky., took the life of Special Warfare Operator Third Class Jonathan Kaloust, 23, of Massapequa, said Lt. David Lloyd.The cause of the accident is under investigation. No details have ...
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Juror Caroline gets a peek of the crack rock
Caroline Kennedy got what is presumably her first look at a crack rock yesterday - and she and her fellow jurors on a small-time Harlem buy-and-bust trial didn’t seem too impressed."I’m now going to show you what’s been offered into evidence as People’s Exhibit 7," a prosecutor announced before pulling two double-bagged crack rocks out of an evidence box in the ...
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Bank bandit tells yelling teller shhhhhhhhhh
A well-dressed bank thief desperately tried to quiet down a freaked-out Midtown teller - who screamed when he slipped her a note saying he’d kill people unless she handed over cash. The Bank of America worker - described as a "sweet girl in her 20s and not originally from New York" - began yelling, "Oh, my God!" when she read the letter, sources said.The dumbfounded ...
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Phelps Yanks aim to continue home dominance of Jays
With it being nearly two weeks since he last took the hill, Blue Jays right-hander Brandon Morrow is ready to make his eighth start of the season on Saturday against the Yankees in the Bronx. Scratched twice because of soreness in his upper back and neck, Morrow and the team now feel he is healthy enough to make the start. "We'll be cautious, it has been a little while since he has ...
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Car-ram tragedies in Bronx
A 16-year-old girl was killed and five other Bronx pedestrians were injured yesterday when they were struck by vehicles in three accidents, police said.The 16-year-old victim along with two other women, 16 and 51, were struck on Grand Concourse near Mt. Eden Parkway at around 3:30 p.m. The two teenagers were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where one of the girls was declared dead and the other ...
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‘1199’ boost for de Blasio
Bill de Blasio’s mayoral bid just got a big jolt - an endorsement from Local 1199-SEIU, which represents 200,000 health-care workers. The powerful union is the first to get behind the public advocate, whom many see as labor’s darling in the race.The move, meanwhile, is a blow to two of his Democratic rivals: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and former city Comptroller Bill ...
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Co-ed beauty in hofstra horror
A beautiful Hofstra University sorority girl was shot dead during a home invasion early yesterday after a masked gunman stalked her and her twin sister from a bar to their home near campus, law-enforcement sources told The Post.Andrea Rebello, a 21-year-old junior at the Hempstead, LI, college, pleaded for her life right before the gunman exchanged fire with Nassau County police, officials and ...
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Party girl who celebrated life
She wasn’t just a pretty face.Andrea Rebello, 21, was a stunning social butterfly who plastered party pictures all over social media - but she also had a little-known domestic side in which she cooked, gardened and enjoyed family. The beloved sorority girl - a junior public- relations major with a sociology minor at Hofstra University - was rarely seen without her twin sister, Jessica, ...
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Cory’s figure of speech $1.3M
Newark Mayor Cory Booker has made $1.3 million in fees for 90 speeches he has delivered around the country since 2008, including nearly $500,000 since the start of last year.Booker disclosed his income from speaking engagements in a filing made yesterday with the US Senate. The Democrat is required to report his income because he is running for the Senate in 2014.His campaign staff provided ...
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What’s the deal NJ sets rules on ’Net bets
ATLANTIC CITY - New Jersey moved forward yesterday with its plans to offer Internet gambling, issuing regulations on how new online bets are to be handled.The rules offered by the state Division of Gaming Enforcement include techniques to verify that players are within New Jersey’s geographic boundaries, include a 15 percent tax on casinos’ online winnings and add cautions for people ...
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Shocker Post finds honest NY politician
EXCLUSIVE Finally, an honest pol!City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer helped bust a businessman on a bribery charge, The Post has learned.Mike Wolfert, who’s developing a massive indoor rock-climbing center in Queens, allegedly asked Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) to pull strings for him after he was slapped with a stop-work order for doing construction work without a permit.But rather than accept ...
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Great Googa Mooga Food And Music Festival Kicks Off
massive food and music festival , with more than 90,000 foodie and music fans taking over part of the park. Festival co-founder Jonathan Mayers of Superfly promised a better experience for festival-goers in its second year. ';We added more restaurants. We’ve also simplified it where every restaurant vendor has one option,'; Mayers told WCBS 880′s Marla ...
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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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