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BC Morning Show Jerry Delivers The Goods
As expected, Jerry Recco had plenty of Rangers reaction during his first update of the morning. John Tortorella was very fired up in his post game press conference, but not as fired up as one of the linesman. Torts also channels his inner Tom Coughlin. Jerry tells us our old pal Brandon Inge was in the hockey spirit in Pittsburgh, and we like him. Plus Boomer noticed that Craig has been ...
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BC Morning Show Heading Back To Boston
The Rangers won Game 4 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Bruins last night at Madison Square Garden, and to the surprise of no one Boomer was pretty fired up. Boomer and Craig broke down the overtime victory, including the surprising move by head coach John Tortorella who benched Brad Richards for last night’s game. The series now heads back to Boston for Game 5, ...
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Analysis NYPD Stop-And-Frisks Lead To More Marijuana Arrests Than Anything Else
arrested for marijuana than for anything else , according to a new analysis by the American Civil Liberties Union. While NYPD’s stated purpose for its aggressive and racially disproportionate stop-and-frisk program is to target guns, the number of people arrested for marijuana was more than six times the number of guns recovered. While 729 guns were recovered, 5,000 people were arrested ...
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Exclusive New York Sandy ‘Climate Resilience’ Plan Won’t Address Climate Pollution
$300 million climate-resiliency initiative established by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg using Sandy relief funds will not address climate pollution, according to a city official. The New York City Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency (SIRR), formed in November 2012, will release a report this month indicating how $294 million in federal funding from the Superstorm Sandy ...
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Police Armed Gunmen Rob Abduct Driver In Freeport Carjacking
FREEPORT, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – Nassau County police are looking for fivesuspects who they said robbed a driver at gunpoint,bound him and then drove around with him in the trunk before letting him go. The incident happened just before 4 a.m. Thursday on North Beach Avenue at West Seaman Avenue in Freeport. A 35-year-old man driving a Mercedes was stopped at a traffic light when five armed ...
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West Islip Students Accused Of Using Facebook To Cheat
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LI police reopening probe into 1986 student death
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- Police on Long Island are reopening the investigation into the 1986 death of a teenage rabbinical student who was bludgeoned in his dormitory ...
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Actress Amanda Bynes To Be Arraigned On Drug Charges In Manhattan
Actress Amanda Bynes arrives at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards at Universal Studios’ Gibson Amphitheatre on June 5, 2011 in Universal City, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty ...
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Boomer Carton Announce 2013 Pulse Of The People Award Finalists
NEW YORK (WFAN) – This year’s Pulse of the People Award finalists include three past winners, a Mets radio play-by-play personality and a Knicks beat reporter. Who will take home the highly coveted prize? Ladies and gentlemen, your 2013 Pulse of the People Award ...
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Express LIRR ‘Cannonball’ Service To Hamptons Begins Today
its new express service to the east end of the island. It’s called the Cannonball and it goes non-stop from Penn Station to Westhampton, then on to Southampton, East Hampton, Bridgehampton, and Montauk. This non-stop service is new to the LIRR and the trip to Westhampton is 94 ...
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NYPD 3 Subway Performers Sought In Queens Straphanger Attack
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Police are looking for three subway performers who they said attacked a man aboard a train in Queens. It happened around 7:30 p.m. on a Manhattan-bound F train on May 7. Police said thesuspects had just finished performing a ';dance show'; aboard the train when they got into somesort of argument with a 28-year-old ...
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Rothstein This And That Around NCAA Basketball Iowa State SMU More
More Columns - Iowa State needs to get back to the way they initially built their program under Fred Hoiberg — taking transfers. The Cyclones will be able to get their share of talented high school kids — they’re heavily involved with one of the top players in the Class of 2014 in Rashad Vaughn — but their bread and butter still has to be transfers. Hoiberg has led Iowa ...
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Hartnett Character Rather Than Skill Defines Tortorella’s Resilient Rangers
More Columns Trailing 2-0 in the second period of Game 4, the New York Rangers stared down the prospect of being swept by the Boston Bruins directly in the face. We've seen ordinary teams fold it up and pack it in when there's a mountain to climb. Not this ...
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More Wet Weather On Tap For Much Of Memorial Day Weekend
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The unofficial start of summer is not being greeted by summer-like weather in much of the Tri-State. Forecasters are calling for rain Fridaywith a chance for more Saturdayafter powerfulstorms slammed the region on ...
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Sweeny Yankees Thoughts Heading Into Memorial Day Weekend
enter the weekend 10 games over .500 , a mark they actually reached for the first time on May 13. I learned a lot of baseball from Joe Torre my first seven years on this beat, and he used to always point to 10-games over as the first goal of the season. After that, Torre would say, you think about 15, then 20and when you get to 20 you start to measure yourself as a postseason contender. I ...
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Giancarlo Rindone Of Bensonhurst Prepares For West Point Graduation
WEST POINT, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) - Among those cadets who will become second lieutenants at the United States Military Academy’s graduation ceremony on Saturday is a Brooklyn boy. For Giancarlo Rindone, going to West Point was a way to say thank you. ';I’m a first generation Italian-American and I want to give back to the country for all the opportunities they’ve given to ...
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P.J. Carlesimo Says Nets’ 2-Year Plan ‘Not Totally Realistic’
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – P.J. Carlesimo thinks the Brooklyn Nets’ goal of winning a championship within the next two years is ';maybe not totally realistic,'; though he believes they are a contender in the Eastern Conference. Carlesimo went 35-19 as interim coach after Avery Johnson was fired in December, but the Nets told him he wouldn’t return the day after a ...
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Jersey Shore Kicks Off Beach Season As Storm Recovery Continues
Memorial Day weekend , when crowds usually start flowing to the beach. ';The shore is reopening and for probably about 80 percent of the Jersey shore, you won’t notice any difference from last summer,'; Christie said Friday on ';The Today'; show. Up and down the shoreline, some boardwalkshave been rebuilt and beaches are open, though many of them are narrower this ...
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Driver abducted bound during LI carjacking
FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) -- Police on Long Island are looking for five gunmen who robbed a driver, then bound him and drove around with him in the trunk before releasing ...
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Palladino Ike Davis A Convenient Scapegoat In Mets’ Mess
More Ernie Palladino Columns The Mets could send half their starting rotation and most of their lineup down to the minors and not even know they're gone. Things are so bad right now that on a team full of potential scapegoats, not one player truly deserves singling out as the root cause of this mess that stands a season-worst 10 games under .500 with streaking, first-place Atlanta headed ...
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Rangers Coach John Tortorella Explains Benching Of Brad Richards
Brad Richards was a healthy scratch Thursday night when New York stayed alive in the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 4-3 overtime victory in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Boston Bruins. Richards, a star player earning $12 million this season, stayed on the ice with the extras Thursday during the morning skate. He then confirmed that Rangers coach John Tortorella had ...
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Game 4 Hero Kreider Says There’s ‘No Quit’ In Rangers
Chris Kreider of the New York Rangers celebrates his game-winning goal in overtime against goalie Tuukka Rask and Dougie Hamilton of the Boston Bruins in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty ...
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Gill named new Conn. chief medical examiner
Dr. James R. Gill’s appointment was announced Thursday by the state Commission on Medicolegal Investigations, which oversees the medical examiner’s office in Farmington. Gill succeeds Dr. H. Wayne Carver II, who is retiring after 24 years as the state’s top medical ...
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There Is Fun To Be Had In New York City This Memorial Day Weekend
Fleet Week-less city this weekend. Not all is lost. There is fun to be had, food to be tasted and history to be honored across the five boroughs this holiday weekend. While ...
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A Bethpage drinking supply well shut down
Bethpage Water District officials say the amount of radium does not exceed federal or state drinking water standards. They will run tests to try to determine where the radioactive element is coming ...
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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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