Mobile Couch Special Gym Just For Kids Celebrates 30th Birthday

CBS 2 - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

NEW YORK (WLNY) – My Gym Children’s Fitness Center is turning 30 years old this summer. The gym, just for kids, has established local facilities where children learn and grow through unique and exciting ...

Why The Spurs Must Win Game 7

CBS 2 - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Last night, the San Antonio Spurs possibly choked away a championship. They led the Miami Heat by 5 points with 20 seconds to play and lost in OT. That’s a choke. You don’t blow 5 point leads with 20 seconds to play. You just can’t do that. Not with a title on the ...

Cooking On The Couch Pizza Lavash With Celeb Chef Cat Cora

CBS 2 - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

NEW YORK (WLNY) – Celebrity chef Cat Cora always has a lot going on — cookbooks, television shows, restaurants and being a mother to four ...

Serena Williams Victim In Ohio Rape Case ‘Shouldn’t Have Put Herself In That Position’

CBS 2 - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Serena Williams is never one to shy away from a strong opinion. The tennis champion said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine that, while not blaming the victim in the Steubenville rape case, ';she shouldn’t have put herself in that position.'; The comment is made in one paragraph of a lengthy story posted online Tuesday about Williams, a ...

New York Muslims Mount Legal Challenge To Ubiquitous NYPD Surveillance

ThinkProgress - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

filing a lawsuit on behalf of Muslim New Yorkers to challenge the surveillance they say amounts to racial profiling and violates their religious liberties. Under the aggressive program, undercover informants infiltrate Mosques, restaurants, bookstores, and Muslim student associations without any particular suspicion of the places being monitored or the people being surveilled. Officers also ...

Father son acquitted in NY of sex trafficking

Associated Press - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) -- A father and son who admitted they were pimps have been acquitted in New York of sex trafficking after several prostitutes testified they were treated ...

LeBron Leads Heat To Game 6 OT Win

CBS 5 - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

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U.S. banks fall short on 29 rules in $25 billion settlement

Middle East Times - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Only one of five U.S. banks involved in a $25 billion mortgage-abuse settlement had reached every goal in the agreement, an independent monitor said. The deal with the national mortgage lenders included the billions in financial obligations, which a report by the settlement's appointed ...

Drug companies in Europe fined for pay-to-delay scheme

Middle East Times - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Antitrust regulators in Europe said they had fined several drug companies $195 million for conspiring to delay bringing a generic drug to market. The New York Times reported Wednesday the companies fined included Danish drugmaker Lundbeck and German pharmaceutical firm Merck. The European Commission's antitrust division said the companies formed an agreement in 2002 to delay producing a ...

Cops kill armed thug in shootout after responding to Brooklyn robbery NYPD

New York Post - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Brooklyn cops gunned down a thief who fired at them while responding to a robbery in progress, the NYPD said.The officers were on patrol in East New York when a livery cab driver approached the cops at around 1:08 a.m. near Hinsdale Street and Dumont Avenue and alerted them to the incident.The responding officers heard gunshots before pulling up and seeing two men struggling over a gun.The ...

Man fighting for life 3 others hurt after car jumps curb in East Village and plows into deli

New York Post - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

A man is fighting for his life after a car jumped a curb and smashed into a deli in the East Village, authorities said.The driver lost control of his white Nissan Altima on Second Avenue near Fourth Street about 7 a.m., and drove into the East Village Grocery, hitting four people, according to witnesses and police.Three of those injured worked at the deli, which had recently reopened after a ...

Man charged in West Village slay allegedly said he targeted gay man

New York Post - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

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. ...

Flight 800 Documentary Features Former Crash Investigators Claiming NTSB Findings ‘Falsified’

CBS 2 - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

The re-assembled shell of TWA flight #800 sits inside a hangar at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) training facility (credit: PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty ...

It’s Last Week For 26 Schools In New York Archdiocese

CBS 2 - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - This is the last week for 26 Catholic schools in the New York Archdiocese. As the Archdiocese looks to consolidate and streamline for long-term viability, some 4,000 students will be displaced. Forty-five percent of them will reportedly not return to Catholic schools. In addition, many teachers will be left ...

Nicks On Skipping OTAs ‘I Had To Take Care Of Some Things’ WR Takes Some Blame

CBS 2 - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

NEW YORK (WFAN) — As we all know, Giants widereceiverHakeem Nicks was a no-show at the team’s voluntary OTAs last month and early this month. Coach Tom Coughlin was admittedly unhappy that his star receiver was not in attendance.Coughlin said that Nicks told him he’d be there, and the 25-year-old didn’t provide an explanation as to why he opted to skip the practices. ...

Redford to promote energy industry environmental performance in New York

Calgary Herald - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Premier Alison Redford says she's prepared for "frank" talk in New York on Wednesday as she promotes Alberta's energy sector in the face of environmental black eyes for the province and uncertainty over the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline.Redford is slated to be the keynote speaker at the Foreign Policy Association's North American Energy Independence Conference.The ...

Deport the Statue of Liberty video takes on Immigration Reform

Middle East Times - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

"I came here in some crates by boat, they didn't give me any documents when I arrived," Lady Liberty tells an immigration officer in this video from Legals for the Preservation of American Culture, ...

Car crashes into New York City grocery store eight injured

Middle East Times - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

A car collided with another car, jumped a curb and smashed into a grocery store in New York City Wednesday, injuring eight people, police said. The cars crashed at 7:30 a.m. near Second Avenue and East Fourth Street in the East Village, WNBC-TV reported. Fire officials said eight people were hospitalized, three of them in serious condition. Five of the injured had been inside the vehicle that ...

Deport the Statue of Liberty

Middle East Times - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

"I came here in some crates by boat, they didn't give me any documents when I arrived," Lady Liberty tells an immigration officer in this video from Legals for the Preservation of American Culture, ...

Deport the Statue of Liberty

Middle East Times - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

"I came here in some crates by boat, they didn't give me any documents when I arrived," Lady Liberty tells an immigration officer in this video from Legals for the Preservation of American Culture, ...

Deport the Statue of Liberty

Middle East Times - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

"I came here in some crates by boat, they didn't give me any documents when I arrived," Lady Liberty tells an immigration officer in this video from Legals for the Preservation of American Culture, ...

Deport the Statue of Liberty

Middle East Times - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

"I came here in some crates by boat, they didn't give me any documents when I arrived," Lady Liberty tells an immigration officer in this video from Legals for the Preservation of American Culture, ...