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‘Ball buster’ wife is teste
A knockdown, drag-out brawl between WABC/Channel 7 weatherman Bill Evans and his estranged wife took a nasty turn when she scratched his testicles and bruised his backside with a coat hanger, the meteorologist claimed. Evans, 52, told police his wife, Dana, went below the belt during the nasty fight over a set of car keys last month at their home in Old Greenwich, Conn. But Dana claims he ...
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Reward now 65G for ’08 Times Sq. bomber
The feds and the NYPD yesterday offered a $65,000 reward for information leading to the capture and conviction of the bicycle bomber who attacked the Times Square military recruiting center in 2008.In addition to the reward offer, authorities released never-before-seen footage of the bomber taken from surveillance video.New images also show the remains of the homemade explosive device, which was ...
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Christie No no to Speedo
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has slimmed down after his belly-band surgery, but he’s not about to make a public splash in a swimsuit."We are not doing that on Fourth of July. There are some things I absolutely know at my core would be a bad thing. Me in a Speedo is one of them," Christie quipped on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe." Christie, a popular Republican considered ...
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AP PHOTOS Astrodome JFK terminal endangered
WASHINGTON -- Houston's Astrodome stadium, New York's old Pan Am Worldport Terminal at Kennedy Airport and Montana's one-room schoolhouses are joining a list of the nation's most endangered historic places.On Wednesday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is releasing its listing of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. It includes sites from Maine to ...
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Heat Somehow Survive Instant Classic Game 6 In Overtime
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Kuroda Hughes set for twin bill with Dodgers
The Yankees' first meeting with the Dodgers since 1981 will have to wait another day. The two historic clubs will meet for a day-night doubleheader on Wednesday at Yankee Stadium after Tuesday's series opener was rained out. Rookie left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu, 6-2 with a 2.85 ERA in 13 starts, will start Game 1 for the Dodgers. He is winless in two outings this month, and he said that ...
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5 Things Learned In Game 3 Of Stanley Cup Finals
BOSTON (AP) - Five things learned in the Boston Bruins’ win over the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals Monday night: ___ SUPAH TUUKKA: Tuukka Rask is proving the Bruins right for putting their faith in him. Rask watched the Bruins’ entire 2011 Stanley Cup run from the bench while Tim Thomas led Boston to the NHL title, winning the Conn Smythe Trophy in the ...
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Its an urban jungle Giant snake dumped inside city trash bin in Manhattan
The reptile was left inside a city trash bin by the world famous 42nd street. Horrified pedestrians screamed as they noticed the huge snake half way inside a big city trash bin, while it's upper body and head was dangling outside of it. NYPD quickly arrived at the scene and said it looked like someone decided to dump the dead snake at the city ...
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Shouldnt happen to a dog Subway brawler kicks police K-9 in face breaking animals teeth
An NYPD police dog was kicked in the face during a brawl today in a midtown subway station, police said.The 6-year-old German Shepherd named Bear suffered four broken teeth and a cut to his tongue when he tried to help an officer break up the fight in the 59th Street and Lexington Avenue station at around 11:15 a.m.While breaking up the fight an officer was trying to handcuff Ravenia ...
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City cop from Suffolk K9 pooch injured in subway fight
In Suffolk Cnty exit ramp closed on The Northern St Pkwy EB at Rt-110/X40 In Suffolk Cnty exit ramp closed on The Northern St Pkwy EB at ...
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Wall Street opens higher boosted by New York manufacturing data
U.S. stocks opened broadly higher Monday, as investors awaited Wednesdays Fed policy meeting, with increasing confidence that the Fed wont start tapering in super-easy ...
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KC terrorist supported plan to bomb New York Stock Exchange FBI tells Congress
Everyone knows someone who is habitually late. It’s a maddening trait to the unafflicted who see the problem as remarkably easy to fix: Start earlier. That’s how the Royals’ two new hitting coaches, George Brett and Pedro Grifol, diagnosed Eric Hosmer’s ...
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Big Apple Braces For Basement Real-Estate Boom
Superstorm Sandy , New York City has begun a massive infrastructure relocation. "Sandy revealed that if you have critical infrastructure in the basement anywhere in the City, you're exposed," said John Bartlick, the Director ...
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CBS 2 Investigation Careless Drivers Get Away With Mayhem Despite New Laws
NEW YORK (CBS 2) — Thousands of pedestrians and cyclists are killed or injured by automobiles in New York City each and every year, but drivers rarely if ever face serious consequences. However, there has been a move to change that, and some say it will finally hold careless drivers accountable, CBS 2 investigative reporter Tamara Leitner reported Tuesday. Careless driving can lead to ...
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Wheeler Proves To Be Real Deal In Debut Mets Sweep Braves
Wheeler lived up the hype in his major league debut, pitching six scoreless innings to lead the Mets to a 6-1 victory over the first-place Atlanta Braves and a doubleheader sweep on Tuesday ...
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Mets strike late to help strong Wheeler win debut
NYM@ATL: Wheeler's first out comes via strikeout ATLANTA -- Like a wise veteran, Mets starter Zack Wheeler cleaned up his own mess on multiple occasions to turn in six shutout innings in his Major League debut, but it was his batterymate who helped spark the rest of the New York offense in securing the top pitching prospect's first big league win. Catcher Anthony Recker's ...
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Empire State Building gets left-field $2 billion offer to sell
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City real estate company offered to buy the Empire State Building for $2 billion, a written offer showed, significantly below the skyscraper's appraisal price and about three weeks after investors in the iconic building approved a plan to take the tower public in a real-estate investment ...
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Stuy Town tenants saved from rent hike
More than 1,000 furious tenants at the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village housing complex were saved from mid-lease rent increases yesterday after Attorney General Eric Schneiderman intervened. The hikes were scheduled to hit next month. Tenants won’t receive a hike so long as they sign an affidavit vowing that they had been promised set rents when they signed their leases. For Thomas ...
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New York State Assembly shoots down MMA bill
Fightin' Words MMA blog Perhaps next year, fight fans. The bill to legalize professional mixed martial arts in New York won't be voted on by the State Assembly this legislative session. The Assembly's Democrats, meeting in conference, discussed the bill Tuesday and Speaker Sheldon Silver declined to bring the bill to the full membership for a vote. This is the fourth straight ...
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Man Wanted For Robbing Women Of iPhones On Subway Trains
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police Tuesday were asking from the public in finding a suspect who robbed two women of their iPhones on subway trains in Queens. The first incident happened on Tuesday, May 14, around 12:30 a.m. A 37-year-old woman was reading something on her iPhone as she rode a northbound M train. When the train pulled into the 67th Avenue station in Forest Hills and the doors ...
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Woman Accused Of Attacking Police Dog While Being Handcuffed
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — An NYPD K-9 Unit dog was attacked by a woman as an officer arrested her on a subway platform Tuesday. "Bear," a member of the Transit Bureau K-9 Unit, suffered four broken teeth and lacerations to his tongue. His handler, Officer Vincent Tieniber, was also injured in the incident, suffering a sprained wrist. It all started around 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, when ...
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New York state announces plan for board to help cash-strapped cities
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo arrives for a meeting with Appropriations Committee Chairman and Vice-Chairman Senator Daniel Inouye and Senator Thad Cochran on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 3, ...
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Gunnar Esiason is winning at the game of life
For Gunnar Esiason, the clock is still running -- and for Boomer Esiason's kid, that means he is winning the game of life. "When I was born, life expectancy was 17 or 18. Now it's the late 30s and it's going up and up," Gunnar said, referring to cystic fibrosis, the disease he has had since birth and that has been the inspiration for the Boomer Esiason Foundation and ...
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Feds Anti-pill psychiatrist sold oxycodone scripts
A psychiatrist who publicly denounced doctors for selling painkillers for money was arrested Tuesday for cashing in on the illegal business too, federal officials said.William S. Belfar, of Huntington, charged up to $1,000 for each oxycodone prescription he wrote out to two undercover FBI agents and an FBI informant on three occasions between May 2011 and April, according to the FBI and ...
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UFT to announce mayoral endorsement Tuesday
Mayoral contenders will learn Wednesday who among them has earned the coveted United Federation of Teachers endorsement, with the decision coming a day after Bill Thompson secured the nod from the allied principals' union.Thompson, a former city comptroller and board of education president, Tuesday declined to speculate about whether he will be the UFT's pick during a conference call ...
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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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