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Mets Trade McHugh For Eric Young Jr. Designate Cowgill For Assignment
ATLANTA (CBSNewYork/AP) -- The New York Mets have traded right-hander Collin McHugh to the Colorado Rockies for outfielder Eric Young Jr. The Mets announced the deal Tuesday ...
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Police Stabbing At ‘Crossroads Of The World’ An Isolated Incident
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A man was hospitalized following a stabbing in the heart of Times Square on Tuesday afternoon. The typically large crowd looked on as two men fought near the intersection of 46th Street and Seventh Avenue around 2 p.m. As 1010 WINS' Sonia Rincon reported, it was an altercation between two men in their 40s that got physical. Witnesses were alarmed, but did not ...
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Mark Teixeira Returns To DL Kevin Youkilis To Miss At Least 10-12 Weeks
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Kevin Youkilis needs back surgery and Mark Teixeira returned to the 15-day disabled list Tuesday with an aching right wrist, the latest injury setbacks for the depleted New York Yankees. Youkilis will miss at least 10-12 weeks after he has the procedure in California on Thursday. He had gone back on the DL last Friday. The three-time All-Star, who signed a one-year, ...
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Rick Perry takes aim at New York
Rick Perry stars in an ad out Wednesday that coincides with his swing across the Northeast to lure jobs to Texas.The one-minute, campaign-style video - shared first with POLITICO - attacks New York, where the governor is spending the day, as a high-tax, high-regulation state. ...
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K-9 cop is hurt on job
Bear was treated at an animal-care facility and released later in the day. He’ll be back on the job today.The dog will have two teeth capped and is expected to return to full duty.Matos-Davis was charged with injuring a police animal, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.In 2011, Bear helped apprehend suspects in two other ...
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Car mows down roadside dinosaurs on Long Island
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) -- A Long Island man denies a police claim that he was intoxicated when his car smashed into about a dozen roadside ...
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FBI hunt for Jimmy Hoffa remains entering 3rd day
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- FBI agents plan a third day of digging Wednesday in suburban Detroit for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared 38 years ...
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Brazil braces for more anti-government protests
Brazil braced for a new round of anti-government protests Wednesday after a violent night of looting and vandalism in Sao Paulo that led to at least 30 arrests. An estimated 50,000 people flooded the city's central Cathedral Square for the second night running, marching through streets and waving banners carrying slogans such as, "The people have awakened." One group tried to ...
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Condo couple $5M hit
"If they can’t pay back the money, they could get from one to four years in prison."From 2008 to 2012, the couple raked in millions marketing and selling units to more than 27 buyers at the Broadway Towers Condominiums in Elmhurst, according to a felony complaint. The units started at about $300,000 and one sold for $938,000 in 2012, property records show.Tommy, 59, and Alice, ...
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Bust in Marine slaying
Cops arrested the man who fatally stabbed an aspiring Marine just hours before his 20th birthday, police said.Wilson Rivera, 19, stabbed D’Anthony McDonald in the chest at about 9 p.m. on June 14 in South Ozone Park, cops said.Rivera was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.It’s unclear what sparked the violence between the two young men, who lived just ...
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Arrest in cab umbrella slay
The man who police say fatally stabbed a livery cab driver in the eye with an umbrella was busted in Brooklyn yesterday.Shamel Allen, 28, was nabbed at 11:30 a.m. and charged with manslaughter in last Thursday’s slaying, police said.Orji-Ama Uro was driving Allen in the vicinity of Lott Avenue and Thomas Boyland Street in Brownsville when Allen plunged the tip of the umbrella into ...
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Feds Surveillance foiled NYSE attack
Secret US surveillance foiled an al Qaeda plot to blow up the New York Stock Exchange, the FBI revealed to Congress yesterday.A Brooklyn accountant "cased" the stock exchange in 2008 under orders from a mysterious al Qaeda leader in Yemen known as "the Doctor," according to federal authorities.But the accountant and two other suspected terrorists were arrested before the plot ...
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Weiner’s meager sext therapy
Anthony Weiner yesterday admitted that he’s still in therapy for his crotch-tweeting compulsion - but sex-addiction experts say he needs more than just a shrink.Asked if he’s going to counseling, the married former US congressman told The Post, "I am, yes" - then declined to comment further.But psychologists say deeply rooted problems such as the mayoral candidate’s ...
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Mystery death in W’burg luxe loft
An accountant was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his luxury Williamsburg loft yesterday morning, authorities said.The body of Mark Garza, 46, was found on his bed in his pad at 184 Kent Ave. in at 8:40 a.m., sources said. His body was found by his brother, who hadn’t heard from him in a few days, law-enforcement sources said.There were no signs of forced entry, and the ...
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Chris-Drake brawl club’s booze ban KO’d
Drink up, A-listers!An appeals court yesterday overturned a Manhattan judge’s decision to revoke the liquor license at the Soho club that played host to the infamous brawl between Chris Brown and Drake over Rihanna last summer. The Appellate Division found that Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Wright’s termination of a booze permit for W.i.P. in November 2012 because of ...
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Gov Senate in abortion-bill deal
ALBANY - Gov. Cuomo and state Senate leadership reached a late-night agreement yesterday to introduce a controversial pro-abortion bill, a senior administration official told The Post. But it’s still unclear if the measure - which Cuomo has pushed - will actually be put to a vote on the Senate floor, sources said. The deal breaks Cuomo’s Women’s Equality Act into 10 separate ...
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New York City aims to require apartment dwellers to compost food scraps
NEW YORK -- Legions of New York City apartment dwellers will soon be asked -- and may eventually be forced -- to start collecting food scraps for composting, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest bid to make the city ...
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Obama to call for U.S.-Russia nuclear arms cuts
Barack Obama 's foreign-policy speech in Berlin Wednesday will call for additional U.S.-Russia nuclear-arms cuts, administration officials said. He is expected to say Washington and Moscow can shrink their nuclear arsenals by up to one-third beyond cuts mandated under the 2010 New Start, or Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, without hurting deterrence or capabilities, the officials told The ...
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Syria peace talks delayed after Putin unyielding
Syrian peace talks will be delayed after Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to boycott talks that assume President Bashar Assad will resign, officials said. The international peace conference in Geneva, Switzerland, proposed by Washington and Moscow six weeks ago to be held as soon as May is now likely to be delayed until September, a Western official told several news organizations after ...
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Suit over Soho Citi Bike site
Opponents of a Citi Bike station that was dumped in a popular Soho park will file a lawsuit today asking a judge to remove it."Why did it have to come to this?" asked Sean Sweeney, of the Soho Alliance. "It’s the intransigence of an arrogant DOT commissioner who has put her and Mayor Bloomberg’s legacy over the interests of parks and art and the common good." ...
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Brawl-bar booze ban reversed
Drink up, A-listers!An appeals court yesterday overturned a Manhattan judge’s decision to revoke the liquor license at the Soho club that played host to the infamous brawl between Chris Brown and Drake over Rihanna last summer. The Appellate Division found that Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Wright’s termination of a booze permit for W.i.P. in November 2012 because of ...
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NFL’er quizzed in death
Authorities searched the $1.3 million home of Hernandez, who was initially uncooperative, ABC said. The body was found at 5:30 p.m. Monday in an industrial park. It could have been there as long as a day, according to the Sun Chronicle of Attleboro.Authorities focused on Hernandez when they found a rented Chevrolet Suburban with Rhode Island plates - and which was tied to his name - near the ...
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I killed for love of the family
BOSTON - A former cohort of James "Whitey" Bulger who admitted killing 20 people is insisting he’s not a hit man or a serial killer.John Martorano says he is a "nice guy" who was only trying to help his family and friends when he pumped bullets into victims while working with Bulger and his gang.Martorano made the statements yesterday while being cross-examined by one ...
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Lohan accuser pill bust
Physician, heal thyself! A Gramercy Park psychiatrist who went on TV and accused Lindsay Lohan’s doctor of turning her into a pill-popping drug addict was busted yesterday for allegedly selling oxycodone prescriptions for cash. William Belfar, who was nabbed in an undercover FBI sting, discussed the perils of overusing prescription drugs while appearing as a talking head in a May segment ...
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Slay thug targeted gay cops
An accused killer told cops he shot a man dead in the West Village because the victim was gay, authorities said yesterday. "Guy thought he was tough in front of his bitch so I shot him. Diagnosis is dead, doctor," Elliot Morales heartlessly told cops after the May 18 shooting of Mark Carson, 32, according to court papers released at the accused killer’s arraignment yesterday. ...
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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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