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Weekend getaways near New York City
You have a long weekend and want to shake off work without having to drive too far. Here are five great destinations in the northeast that won't take more than a tank of ...
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Knicks say they need time not an overhaul
GREENBURGH, N.Y. - Some of the players were old, though the New York Knicks say their team is young in its development.So they feel they need time, not an overhaul, to get further next season."We're just fine. I love our team just the way it is," point guard Raymond Felton said Monday. "When you start making too many changes, you can't build on something. If you're ...
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New York City police department defends itself in court over surveillance of Muslims
This undated handout photo obtained by The Associated Press shows New York Detective Stephen Hoban. The New York Police Department defends its surveillance of Muslims as narrowly focused in a new court filing in a civil rights lawsuit. But text messages between a detective and an informant obtained by The Associated Press reveal wide-ranging efforts to get Muslims to privately make incriminating ...
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US accuses 3 New York University medical researchers of taking bribes from Chinese institution
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Three New York University researchers from China divulged results from a U.S.-funded study to Chinese competitors in exchange for tuition, rent and other expenses, federal prosecutors said Monday. Zhu Yudong, a U.S.-educated NYU professor, and Yang Xing, a lab engineer, were released on bail after appearing in court in Manhattan to face commercial bribery and other charges. ...
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Tornado rips through Oklahoma City suburbs
Television video showed debris from homes and businesses being carried aloft as the twister rolled through Moore, a community on the south side of Oklahoma ...
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AG Syracuse head shop owner will spend 60 days in jail in bath salts case
Syracuse Police Sgt. Tom Connellan and Lt. Steven Baratta, far right, investigate the robbery of Twisted Headz on North Salina Street in March ...
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Your Comments on Long Island shooting Were the cops actions justified
Andrea Rebello as she appeared in the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook. Rebello, 21, was killed Friday by a police officer who was shooting at the man holding her hostage, police ...
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Barbie dream house being reimagined in New York India
U.S. toymaker Mattel says it hired designers to come up with new dream home ideas for its Barbie doll but likely won't actually manufacture them. The toymaker said the interior designers will sketch up homes with a California, New York and India feel, with the top design to be chosen in August, the New York Post reported Monday. Celerie Kemble said her New York version resembles a ...
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New York Landowners Sue Norse Energy USA Over Leases
Eighty-nine New York landowners who once agreed to let Norse Energy Corp. USA drill for natural gas on their property have filed a lawsuit against the struggling company, arguing that its executives have unfairly extended the life of their lease agreements using a legal clause meant for natural disasters and terrorist attacks. The landowner group said that Norse Energy USA shouldn't be ...
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Caroline Kennedy and fellow jurors acquit accused Harlem crack dealer
Former First Daughter Caroline Kennedy and her fellow jurors took just over an hour today to acquit a Harlem man of charges that he sold four "nickel bag" crack rocks at $5 each to an undercover officer near Harlem River Park.Violent predicate felon Nelson Chatman, 31, smiled big as the jury foreman rendered the not guilty verdict in the circumstantial case after just 75 minutes of ...
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Study Most shipwrecks a minor US pollution threat
WASHINGTON -- A new government report details 87 shipwrecks - most sunk during World War II decades ago - that could pollute U.S. waters with tens of millions of gallons of oil.Even so, the potential for pollution is less than scientists had expected. The report released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concludes "the scope of the problem is much more ...
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LIVE BLOG Yahoo New York Press Event
's master plan to dominate the news cycle is continuing into Monday night with a major press event that may or may not be tied to its $1.1 billion acquisition of social sharing platform Tumblr, which ...
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We wont screw it up Yahoo buys New York-based social network Tumblr for $1.1bn as chief executive Marissa Mayer rules out radical changes following negative reaction
The statement from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer begins with a promise "not to screw it up", whilst assuring users that David Karp will remain CEO and that Yahoo! will "operate Tumblr independently".The deal went through for $1.1 billion (723 million) in cash, a sum justified by Tumblr's impressive numbers as one of the world's fastest growing social-media networks.The ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 20
Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Atlanta Braves: 1. ...
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Aardsma signs Minor League deal with Mets
The Mets signed right-hander David Aardsma to a Minor League deal and assigned him to Triple-A Las Vegas on Monday. Aardsma, 31, opened the year with Miami's Triple-A affiliate in New Orleans, and he went 1-0 with a 2.57 ERA in 10 games (14 innings). He was released on Wednesday. The veteran hurler was in Spring Training this year with the Yankees, but was designated for assignment on ...
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Rep. Dan Maffei says he wants to hear from Central New York business owners
Rep. Dan Maffei (right), tours the Salina Industrial Powerpark, the former General Motors Inland Fisher Guide plant, on July 31. He is speaking with Randy Wolken (left) and Frank Devlin of the Manufacturers Association of Central New ...
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Godfather faults NY police in student death
(AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High School). CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME -- In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rebello is ...
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Feds NYU researchers took bribes from Chinese co.
NEW YORK -; Three researchers are charged with taking bribes from a Chinese government-supported institution in exchange for access to restricted research from a New York University ...
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Figoski slay thug testifies against former partners-in-crime
A violent thug turned courtroom snitch fingered his former partners-in-crime today in the murder trial of two Brooklyn men accused of a botched robbery that led to the death of a NYPD cop.Ariel Tejada, 24, detailed the planning that went into the brutal 2011 robbery that led to the fatal shooting of NYPD Det. Peter Figoski.The former Crips gang member testified against alleged robbery ringleader ...
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NY cigarette tax probes called weak sloppy
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Sting operations aimed at black market cigarettes in New York had such weak investigative protocols and financial controls that money went missing and prosecutions were dismissed, the state inspector general reported ...
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Now that Tumblrs hit it big whos next in line on the New York tech scene | Heidi Moore
$1.1bn acquisition of Tumblr - "we won't screw it up," the acquirer promised - than the New York tech world erupted in gossip and speculation about which company among them would be next to find an equally rich and self-deprecating corporate suitor. "That's all people are talking about at Internet Week - what's going to be the hot new acquisition?" said ...
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Unity House plans fall opening for $5.5 million center
Unity House plans an Oct. 1 opening for its new $5.5 million community resource center, being built on the site of its former street ministry center at 2431 Sixth Ave., in Troy, NY. CEO Chris Burke tells me that construction of the 36,000 square-foot, four-story building, which the organization is calling The Front Door, is on schedule. He says the nonprofit, which employs 375 at multiple ...
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Former United Group exec Buell doing renovation project in Troy
Jeff Buell , a former development executive at The United Group of Cos. in Troy, is pursuing his first residential project in the city since leaving the company. Buell, 33, and a business ...
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Fabius to vote on extending hydrofracking moratorium tonight
Fabius is expected to approve a seven-month extension on its hydrofracking moratorium, and then will hold a public hearing and vote on a proposed hydrofracking ban at 7 p.m. June ...
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Federal aid approved for Oberdorfer foundry workers in DeWitt
The Oberdorfer LLC plant on Thompson Road in DeWitt is shutting down, eliminating the jobs of 86 people who work at the aluminum castings ...
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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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