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Cuomo legislative leaders talk casinos jobs
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New Yorkers could see huge, resort casinos upstate and an influx of new employers lured by the promise of tax-free operations for a decade under several deals in the works in ...
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New York City settles lawsuit over police pension benefits
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has settled a lawsuit in which the federal government accused it of improperly reducing retirement benefits for current and former police officers who served in the military after September 11, ...
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Obama calls NSA secret data gathering transparent in PBS interview
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent -- even though they are authorized in secret. "It is transparent," Obama told PBS's Charlie Rose in an interview to be broadcast Monday. "That's why we set up the FISA court," he added, referring ...
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6 Northern NY border agents require decontamination after 2 become ill
Customs and Border Protection officials say two officers were examining a 2002 BMW around 6 a.m. Saturday at the Champlain crossing when they began to feel ill. Four other officers who went to help them didn't become ...
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Your Comments on Clyde vandalism case Punish the boys scold their parents move on
Syracuse.com readers weigh in on report that police had charged a man after he confined four boys in a closet after he allegedly caught them vandalizing his father-in-law's ...
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Albany leaders agree on last day of session but not necessarily all legislation
It's unclear whether leaders will agree on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Women's Equality Act, which includes language to codify the Roe v Wade decision into state ...
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Arizona proof-of-citizenship law is illegal U.S. Supreme Court rules
People wait in line to vote at polling place located in a church in Phoenix in this Nov. 6, 2012, file photo. The Supreme Court ruled Monday, June 17, 2013, that states cannot on their own require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier. The justices voted 7-2 to throw out Arizona's voter-approved ...
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High school graduation rates remain steady in New York college-ready rates lag
Conductor Andrew Perry leads the band as students enter West Genesee High School's graduation ceremony at SRC Arena and Events Center at Onondaga Community College Saturday. The school's 2012 graduation rate was 87 ...
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Chinese Pro-Life Dissident Chen Booted From New York University
Chinese pro-life activist Chen Guangcheng, who was released by Beijing's communist government a year ago and allowed to re-locate to the United States, is leaving New York University, and Chen claims the school is being pressured by China's regime to boot him out. ...
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Port Authority retirees get free tolls and parking -- for life judge rules
Port Authority retirees get to keep the lifetime perk of free tolls and parking, a Manhattan Supreme Court judge has ruled. The Port Authority sued in Manhattan Supreme Court last year after an arbitrator ruled that about a 100 former lieutenants should receive the benefits, equivalent to a $2,000 a year bump in their pensions if used daily. The PA's board had voted to pull the perk for all ...
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Woman sues Spin City actor over alleged dog attack
A poodle mix owned by an actor best known for the ‘90s sitcom "Spin City" viciously attacked an Upper East Side woman in Central Park, according to a new lawsuit. Alexander Chaplin, 42, who played the mayoral aide James Hobert in the Michael J. Fox TV show from 1996-2000, allegedly allowed his goldendoodle Freddy to "approach, menace and attack" Denise Shaw, 61, during ...
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New York man facing criminal charges for stopping vandals
USA A New York man was arrested and charged for endangering the welfare of four children who allegedly broke into and vandalized his father-in-law's home, causing property damage in excess of $40,000 The man locked the children into a closet until police arrived, and claims he made no threats to hurt them. Jesse Daniels, a 53-year-old resident of Clyde, N.Y. is facing felony ...
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Critics Notebook Proven in Britain Two Comics Try to Take New York
Dylan Moran likes to start with a pang. In his last two stand-up shows, Mr Moran, an internationally popular comic who has been making a determined push into the American market, began with a greeting, then an anguished stammer, before mumbling the same sentence: ...
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Astors son 89 going to New York jail after losing mercy plea
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The 89-year-old son of late New York socialite Brooke Astor on Monday lost a final plea that because of old age and illness he should avoid prison time for his conviction on charges he cheated his ailing mother before her ...
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Dance Review Breakin Convention Shows a New York Styles Diversity
New York may be the birthplace of hip-hop, but London has now become one of ...
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Food companies work to make products look more more natural
Americans still love their fast food and packaged snacks, but they're increasingly turning their noses up at foods that look overly processed. Home-cooked meals - or ones that at least look like they were homemade - are seen as more wholesome and ...
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New York taking applications for $760 million in project subsidies
Got a development project that you think deserves a state subsidy? The state is accepting applications. Empire State Development, the state's economic development arm, on Monday opened the application period for the $760 million available in the latest round of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Regional Economic Development Council initiative. Funding applications will be accepted until 4 p.m. ...
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Employee complaint prompts Marcellus Town board to hire consultant
The complaint is a personnel matter and is unrelated to the Onondaga County Sheriff's Department's investigation of metal light poles missing from the highway ...
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Man claims poisonings aboard United Airlines plane
United Airlines Flight 116 landed safely in Newark, N.J., Monday afternoon following claims by an unidentified passenger fellow travelers had been poisoned. The passenger was restrained after he became disruptive, saying all fellow travelers had been poisoned by the food served on the aircraft, a Boeing 777, CBS News reported. After landing the plane taxied to a remote area of the airport, ...
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Eight arrested after clash among Tokyo protesters
Tokyo police said eight people were arrested following fistfights between anti-Korean nationalists and counterprotesters who dubbed them "racists." The arrests came after several protests staged in a predominantly Korean neighborhood of Tokyo by a far-right anti-immigrant group Zaitokukai. The group's full name translates to Citizens Group that will not Forgive Privileges for ...
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Police step up security in Sandy-hit areas of Staten Island
Hurricane Sandy in an effort to curb looting, officials said. Police have focused on the neighborhoods Ocean Breeze, Midland Beach and an area of Oakwood around Cedar Grove Beach, which still have vacant homes, the Staten Island Advance reported Monday. "We've revamped it now -- we have 10 cars per night in the hurricane zone, and in certain strategic areas where I think it's a ...
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Stocks post gains Monday
U.S. markets posted gains Monday, as economic data looked positive in reports not considered particularly major newsmakers. Trading might prove muted for the first half of the week, as investors wait for the results of a two-day meeting of Open Market Committee at the ...
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Man facing extradition for murder claims innocence
ALBANY, N.Y. -; A former U.S. Marine fighting extradition to the Philippines on charges of killing a couple said in a jailhouse letter professing his innocence that he would never do something "so heinous and ...
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Hooker had no idea dead grandmother was in johns closet during sex romp
She had no idea her john's dead grandmother was less than two feet away, her body stuffed into a closet, a hooker testified today of cavorting naked in bed with accused killer Larry Davis. Soft spoken lady of the night Nakeema Craig, 22, described in Manhattan Supreme Court the alcohol and liquor fueled tryst in the dead granny's Harlem apartment. Prosecutors asked Craig whether at any ...
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Two new police boats dedicated to slain NYPD detectives
Two new police boats were dedicated after slain NYPD detectives Robert Parker and Patrick Rafferty. A pair of cops who paid the ultimate price protecting New York were honored today by the city and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who dedicated two harbor boats in their names."We will always consider them a part of our one, inseparable police family," Kelly said as he named two boats ...
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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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