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QA This man just won $250000 for his startup
Rutvik Mehta 's childhood science experiments once included trying to ferment oranges. These days, in Troy, he's doing something far less odorous--and more important. Mehta, 28, is president, CEO and co-founder of ...
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Few New York school districts beat the property tax cap in this years voting
Kate Walsh and her son, 4-year-old Jack, exit the voting booth at Liverpool High School Tuesday. The Liverpool school district's budget ...
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Syracuse police locate grandparents of 4-year-old girl found wandering DeWitt Street
Syracuse, NY -- Syracuse Police have located the grandparents of the 4-year-old girl who was wandering DeWitt Street this morning. Police said the young girl wandered up to a group of Department of Public Works employees on ...
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Gov. Cuomo wants tax-free zones for companies on and around SUNY campuses
Albany, NY - Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed Wednesday to waive all income, sales, property and businesses taxes for new companies that partner with schools in the SUNY system. He is expected to talk about the plan in at 4:30 p.m. during a visit to SUNY Upstate University in Syracuse. Cuomo called it "Tax-Free NY." It has support from the leaders of the Senate and the Assembly, who were ...
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The National Play Three Surprise Gigs in New York
The first venue, announced on Twitter, was a tiny bar (and flower shop) in Ditmas, Brooklyn, called Sycamore. ("Care to to join us for a liquid lunch? Doors at noon, show at 12:30," the band posted on Facebook.) The second was at Public Assembly in Brooklyn, at 5 p.m., for which tickets were raffled to fans online. The third, at 10 p.m., was at Manhattan's Mercury Lounge, a ...
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Mourners remember Hofstra student killed by friendly fire while taken hostage
Weeping mourners said tearful good-byes today to the beautiful Hofstra University coed accidentally killed by police during a confrontation with a violent thug.Loved ones of Andrea Rebello, 21, packed St. Theresa of Avila in Sleepy Hollow to honor the young woman shot in the head early Friday morning in a house blocks away from Hofstra."During this tragedy a question comes to mind - why? ...
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50-year-old man struck by Q train being treated for head trauma
A man was struck by a train in Brooklyn this morning, authorities said.The 50-year-old was hit by a Queens-bound Q train about 10:30 a.m. at the Avenue J station near 15th Street, according to an MTA spokeswoman and FDNY.He is being treated for head trauma at Kings County Hospital, the FDNY spokesman said.It was not immediately clear how he was struck, authorities ...
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White People Stopped By New York Police Are More Likely To Have Guns Or Drugs Than Minorities
just-concluded trial on the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program, the city argued that officers’ disproportionate targeting of black and Latino New Yorkers was not due to racial profiling but because each stopped individual was doing something suspicious at the time. The data, however, tells a different story: weapons and drugs were more often found on white New ...
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New York City loses its private equity boss
Head of NYC private equity investments heads to private firm in which NYC pension invested. FORTUNE --Yesterday came newsthat Barry Miller had stepped down as head of private equity investments for the New York City Employee Retirement Systems (NYCERS), in order to open a New York City office for Connecticut-based private equity firm Landmark Partners. My immediate reaction: Is this a conflict ...
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Bottom line Kaleida Catholic Health hit by flu
A tough flu season led to a jump in labor costs during first quarter for the regions two largest health systems. Kaleida Health and Catholic Health each saw the costs for salaries and benefits increase by more than 5 percent during first quarter, according to financial statements filed with bondholders. Kaleida Health, which employs more than 10,000 full- and part-time workers, paid $182.6 ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 22
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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Reyna named soccer teams director of football
Claudio Reyna played in Europe and the U.S. for more than 12 years and for the U.S. team in four World Cups. (AP) NEW YORK -- New York City Football Club (New York City FC) has named Claudio Reyna as the club's Director of Football and its first employee. Reyna will be responsible for building the soccer elements of the New York City FC organization, including the recruitment of players, ...
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NYCLU analysis Most stops in outer boroughs
NEW YORK (AP) -- Black and Hispanic men are more likely to be stopped in the Bronx and Brooklyn than other boroughs, according to an analysis of police street stop data released Wednesday by the New York Civil Liberties ...
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Witnesses in Md. and region report seeing meteor
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - A bright light seen traveling across the sky over the weekend by dozens of witnesses across Maryland and the region is what astronomers are calling a fragmenting meteoric ...
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Pay-for-performance an issue for bank execs
Banks large and small continue to struggle when it comes to tying executive pay to performance, according to a new report. Nearly 70 percent of CEOs, directors and chairmen who responded to Bank Directors annual compensation survey say that linking compensation to bank performance is the biggest compensation challenge for 2013. The sentiment cuts across banks of all sizes, in all parts of the ...
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Mount Sinai partner on biomedical research
Shirley Ann Jackson, president, of Rensselaer. RPI and Mount Sinai Hospital will use their high-performance computing centers to advance the biomedical ...
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Expanding Sovran poised for more growth
Throughout 2008, 2009 and most of 2010, Sovran Self Storage Inc. resisted pressure from investors to substantially grow its footprint, believing the market conditions werent right. Finally, prices came down from individual operators who were struggling with the economy, and the Amherst-based self-storage company (NYSE: SSS) hasnt looked back. It purchased 29 stores in 2011, 26 stores in 2012 and ...
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Fellow Democrats Miner Cuomo talk for first time since she criticized his leadership
The Associated Press Albany, NY - Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke at the executive mansion in Albany Tuesday night for the first time in about seven months. "We spoke and it was, as you can imagine, it was professional and courteous," Miner told WCNY's Susan Arbetter on her radio show Capitol Pressroom this morning. She gave no details about the ...
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When the sun comes out in Central New York a chance for more thunderstorms
Satellite image showing clearing skies approaching from the west. This clearing should allow us to warm back up this afternoon and for more thunderstorms to ...
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U.S. Department of Labor sues to free retirement funds of former Syracuse construction company workers
The Labor Department has asked a federal court to appoint an independent administrator to manage the 401(k) plan of the defunct David J. Hardy Construction ...
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Teens accused of raiding stepfathers gun cabinet charged with burglary in Onondaga County
Syracuse, NY - A Town of Geddes teenager accused of stealing 16 long guns from his stepfather's gun cabinet was arraigned on burglary charges with two co-defendants today in Onondaga County Court. Alexander Barber-Montemayor, 18, Victor Pizarro, 20, and Alexander Reinhardt, 18, are accused of burglarizing an apartment in the 600 block of Lodi Street of various home goods and electronics on ...
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Kathleen Joy replaces Lance Denno as majority leader of Syracuse Common Council
David Lassman | dlassman@syracuse.com SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Syracuse Councilor-at-Large Kathleen Joy has stepped in to take over as majority leader of the all-Democratic council ...
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Time Warner Cable shuffling channels testing genre-based lineup in Syracuse
Time Warner Cable "Honey, what channel is our show on?" For many Central New Yorkers, the answer to that question is about to change. Time Warner Cable is beta testing a new genre-based channel lineup in Syracuse starting June 18. A letter sent to TWC subscribers explains many television channels are being shuffled around to group similar genres together, such as sports, news and ...
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Sylvan Beach mayor After 22 years well finally do required audits
Sylvan Beach Mayor Greg Horan says the village will start performing the annual audits that the state Comptroller's office says haven't been done for at least 22 years. "I can't speak to what the previous administrators did or didn't do, but we're going forward and we're trying to do things the right way," said Horan, who took office April ...
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Update FBI confirms Ibragim Todashev friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect was man...
The FBI was questioning Todashev about Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the bombings when a "violent confrontation was initiated by the subject," the FBI ...
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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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